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Ok, so forced arbitration then military action.
I think the current English order is evil enough to order them shot as a motivator if no alternative can be found; whether the soldiers actually pull the triggers when so ordered is another matter.
You’d start with the police, actually. The British unarmed police, many of them female, tasked with arresting physical laborers for not working quickly enough. This will go very badly and build the kind of sympathy which makes deploying regimental system armies against their social equals dangerous enough for Westminster to think twice about it, and possibly call sympathy strikes.
Like the structure of the British army makes it very bad for that kind of operation because the soldiers are loyal to their noncoms over their commanders; commissioned officers have less ability to issue unpopular orders in the breach without the support of the sergeants. And I’m given to understand that the British army is much less diverse than the American one; there’s a reason it wasn’t deployed to Liverpool.
Such an action is sufficiently unprecedented in the Anglosphere anyways that it would make senior political leaders jumpy enough to actually think long enough to consider the mutiny angle.
There is no need for any of this when the British government can just hire Polish garbage men (inventing a visa category if necessary, and it is barely even necessary) to do the job.
Well yes, there is likely a ‘scab’ option before getting on the escalation ladder to begin with. But the escalation ladder does not begin with military force, and military force is likely enough to go badly, that it would be unlikely anyways.
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