Of all the countries in the European geographical region, the UK stands out as being the one whose population is least informed of the growing threat to their security.

Despite the recent Brexit result, which was fuelled by an underlying sense of dissatisfaction with the status quo rather than some of the more incredulous headlines, the average British citizen is kept mainly in the dark about developments on the mainland by a press that has become increasingly manipulated by interested parties.

Those in the eastern European countries have become familiar with the build up of American armour trundling through their streets and fields. More pressingly, they are well aware of the recent mass-mobilisation of Russia and her allies reserve forces. Almost 500,000 men called upon for active duty. The scale dwarves anything seen in recent years, the biggest call-up since the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Germany, already destabilised by the millions of immigrants and refugees, advised their citizens to stockpile enough food and water for ten days in the event of a catastrophic event. Perhaps originally stunted by the need to appear decimalised, this was later revised up to fourteen days. Rumours have now surfaced in the alternative media of doctors being sent conscription notices, informing them that must report for active duty with the German army within weeks.

At the same time, the Czech Republic dramatically but vaguely told their people to prepare for the worst. This followed on the heels of a raft of suggested policy changes by the Czech President Miloš Zeman, including arming citizens and encouraging them to carry their weapons in public.

Finland are even further ahead of the curve. Last year they sent letters to nearly a million military reservists, setting out their roles ‘in the event of war’. The letters were dispatched to 900,000 former conscripts in the armed forces, including to Finnish nationals living abroad. At the end of last month Finland informed their Local Councils to warn citizens and to get them stockpile food and water.

Even this level of preparedness seems negligent though compared to Switzerland. Since the early 1960s, every new home built had to have a basement incorporated into the plans to serve as a nuclear bunker in event of attack. Admittedly, during the waning of the cold war many of these were used mainly as wine cellars but that isn’t the case now. Stockpiling of several weeks of supplies in these hideaways is now the norm. Their population are already well armed, with gun ownership close to the likes of America and Serbia.

Cut back to the UK and you will notice the complete opposite. No information, no preparedness, no protection.

To know if this is by design or default would require membership of the secret and powerful groups operating above the generally understood level of geo-political control.

An organisation called Deagel, with a client list that includes the CIA, NSA as well as the Russian Defense Agency, probably has this level of access. If so, their forecasts for the future should fill the British people with dread.

From a current population of around 64 million people Deagel predict it will have withered to just over 19 million by 2025.

The figure is staggering, hard to comprehend. It would equate to every resident in Greater London, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Bradford, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff and others being dead.

It is unlikely that a terrorist attack, even a series of them, could achieve this level of attrition. Besides, the preparation of other European states suggest the threat to life is of a more predictable nature.

Perhaps the British politicians genuinely believe ignorance is bliss, that their citizenry is best served by keeping them cocooned through misleading media, patronising platitudes and distracting Brexit-debates.

But a cocoon, for all its comforts, is no protection if the bombs start to fall.

Deagel population projections: http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx?pag=2&sort=GDP&ord=DESC