HODL · 1w The U.K. government has lost the monopoly on violence at this point. Mugita Sokio @msokiovt 1781192014 The UK government (the city-state corporation of London) never had a monopoly on violence.The city-state corporation of Vatican City always had one since 1925. Since 538 A.D., the Vatican had that monopoly, and they still do. 1