Lessons from Bosnia — the Changes to the Project

And your chance to get involved

Meliha Avdic

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Photo by Jonathan Beckman on Unsplash

As some of you might know, I’ve been working on a project called Lessons from Bosnia for a over a year now. The main aim of the project was to tell the people of the UK that we are worried about what the UK is turning into. We describe it as ‘Balkanisation of Britain’.

I’ve explained how we hoped Balkan would learn from Britain, and become more like Britain — sensible politicians (at least to some degree), strong economy, reliable welfare and social benefits, equal opportunities for all, and a legal system that provides security in the Rule of Law. While many people in Britain might complain how Britain was never any of these, compared to the Balkan, it really was. Sure, we could see there was room for improvement, but we thought if we could reach the level that Britain was at, we’d be happy.

Instead of us reaching the level that Britain was on, Britain is going down to the level we’re at. This is not good. So, we thought that perhaps by sharing the reality from Bosnia it would be like a wake-up call to the people of Britain to get their act together and fight for their country before it gets so bad, it’s hard to find a way forward.

Just before I had published the last article, the lesson 10 about how the whole situation affects…

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