Empire, state and anarchy

Just a quickie, for me at least...

On Friday night, in the ten minutes to nine slot on Radio 4 after Any Questions, thee was someone talking about British Somaliland and its place at the start of the main batch of decolonisation of the British Empire.  And it got me thinking; change, and change on a big scale at that, can be achieved much more quickly than people generally perceive of.  

In the fifty years following the end of World War Two the greatest empire the world has ever seen was rapidly dismantled.  Seventy-odd countries were carved out of the remains of that empire and given independence.  Momentous change, at a breakneck speed.  Post war Britain was broke, and the empire had transformed from being a supplier of exploitable resources to a drain on the British taxpayers.

With the state welfare Ponzi schemes now also pretty well broke, how about such an emancipation of the British people here at home with a similar rapidity?