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In this provocative and deeply unsettling clip, barrister Steven Barrett lays out his argument that Britain is not being transformed through dramatic revolution, but through quiet, incremental reform driven by elite ideology — and that Tony Blair’s era marked a decisive acceleration of that process. Barrett explores how Fabian ideas about gradualism, expertise, and social engineering may have reshaped Britain’s legal and political foundations in ways most people never voted for or fully understood. https://www.youtube.com/@hereticsclips/videos
Barrett isn’t claiming a secret cabal or hidden meeting rooms.
He’s pointing to something more disturbing.
A pattern.
A pattern where change happens not through public debate, but through administrative shifts. Through procedural reforms. Through the slow replacement of democratic judgment with managerial authority.
The curiosity gap is sharp: if Britain is still formally democratic, why does it feel increasingly unresponsive? Why do major cultural and legal changes seem inevitable no matter who is elected? And why does power appear to flow upward even as representation flows downward?
Barrett argues that Fabian ideology — with its emphasis on gradual change, expert rule, and technocratic governance — has quietly displaced older ideas about citizen sovereignty, common law protections, and moral accountability.
Not through force.
Through “moderation.”
Through compromise.
Through the language of progress.
He suggests that Blair’s reforms accelerated this shift by centralising power, weakening local autonomy, and elevating professional administrators over civic participation. Over time, that transforms the citizen into a client. The voter into a managed subject. The public into a system to be optimised rather than a body to be represented.
Barrett links this directly to the erosion of trial by jury, the rise of regulatory governance, and the increasing criminalisation of dissent — not as isolated trends, but as symptoms of a deeper philosophical change.
A move away from trust in ordinary people.
Toward trust in institutions.
Toward trust in experts.
Toward trust in systems.
And when systems are trusted more than citizens, accountability flips.
Power becomes insulated.
Criticism becomes destabilising.
And legitimacy becomes procedural rather than moral.
This clip isn’t about nostalgia.
It’s about awareness.
About recognising that freedom rarely disappears in a single moment — it disappears in stages, each one reasonable, each one justified, each one framed as necessary.
Until suddenly, something essential is gone.
And no one remembers agreeing to give it up.
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