UK

nation state

United Kingdom  link Sourcewatch Wikiquote
Capital city	London
Location	Europe
Leader	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Type	nation state
Subgroups	GCHQ, MI5, MI6, Special Branch, Cabinet Office, Northern Ireland Office, Prime Minister's Office, Competition and Markets Authority, Crown Prosecution Service, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, National Crime Agency, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, Office of Rail Regulation, Ordnance Survey, Public Works Loan Board, Serious Fraud Office, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, The National Archives,
The biggest Island in Europe. It was a world power with massive influence for over 4 centuries.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is a nation state in Northern Europe. In 2013, it was #5 in the world in terms of military expenditure.

Official Narrative

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...

Deep State

Full article: UK/Deep state

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“The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom has overturned its ban on the use of GSM gateways (COMUGs) for overseas phone calls – leaving one of the longest prosecutions in modern English legal history hanging in the balance. The decision comes after a controversial public consultation exercise held earlier this year, in which The Register caught the Home Office's secret spy powers unit trying to anonymously lobby the regulator and keep the ban.”
Gareth Corfield (10 July 2017) 

The UK deep state is a significant component of the supranational deep state. It has long established links to the commonwealth and draws on the the sevices of the 3 main UK intelligence agencies:- MI5, MI6, GCHQ.

Arms Production

Full article: Arms industry

The UK is the #6 nation worldwide as regards arms export from 2012-2016, after Germany and fellow UN Security Council members, US, Russia, China and France.

Ukania

The political theorist Tom Nairn coined the term Ukania to suggest the irrational and Ruritanian nature of the British constitutional monarchy would lead to the UK's inevitable disintegration. Nairn's original source for Ukania is the nickname "Kakania" that Robert Musil used for the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in "The Man Without Qualities".

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