I said well over a year ago that the RW political events unfolding in England reminded me of 1930s Germany that was steeped in hatred, division, the targeting of vulnerable groups of people, misogyny, racism, xenophobia and a total disregard for law and order and democracy itself. I don't change that view one jot.
There's no suggestion this Brexit govt compares to the obscenity of Hitler's regime; but there are clear signs that the UK may be travelling along the very same route.
For instance, last week Michael Gove was found guilty of breaking the law. The courts decided it was a clear breach. He has offered no apology - no contrition and life has carried on much as before for this wayward minister who is a fascist together with his poisonous wife who appears to be as bad as him in behavioural terms. Indeed Gove and his Union Unit have been ordered by a court, under FOI, to release opinion poll data and other docs covering Scotindy to be released and viewed by the public - the c### is still trying to resist the law courts, unbelievable contemptuous fascist behaviour!! The Home Sec, Patel, is another notable offender. It has become routine for ministers to lie and divert contracts to friends and party donors. The population in England has been conditioned to accept such bad behaviour as the norm!
But this is just the "tip of the iceberg" TBF - civil servants and others are being pressured to overlook conventions and their consciences to become enablers of iniquity. Indeed, by many accounts the head of the UK Civil Service seems to be more exercised in preventing Scot independence than upholding the integrity of his office - HE HAS OPTED TO ENABLE AND NOT OPPOSE OR EVEN OBJECT - AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO SUCH A REPUTABLE INSTITUTION!!
Also re the BBC - quietly and almost without demur, it has been co-opted to the Brit "Brexit" govt cause. Its leadership is now unashamedly partisan. Indeed, its bosses may have been chosen on that basis - DON'T EXPECT IMPARTIAL OUTPUT FROM AN ORGANISATION SO PROFOUNDLY COMPROMISED!! All of this foul ethos is due directly to the lack of controls over ministerial behaviour and because the UK constitution is whatever the govt of the day, with a working majority, says it is i.e. NO WRITTEN CONSTITUTION FOR CIVIL SERVANTS ETC TO ABIDE BY!! Once this ethos of low standards and corruption is embedded, any extreme behaviour is possible. Even the inner workings of the Royal Family, with the fourth estate devoted to so-called monitors of standards, has failed in giving little attention to the moral decline around them. IMO all of this shit could've been prevented had the UK been in possession of a written constitution.
There's no suggestion this Brexit govt compares to the obscenity of Hitler's regime; but there are clear signs that the UK may be travelling along the very same route.
For instance, last week Michael Gove was found guilty of breaking the law. The courts decided it was a clear breach. He has offered no apology - no contrition and life has carried on much as before for this wayward minister who is a fascist together with his poisonous wife who appears to be as bad as him in behavioural terms. Indeed Gove and his Union Unit have been ordered by a court, under FOI, to release opinion poll data and other docs covering Scotindy to be released and viewed by the public - the c### is still trying to resist the law courts, unbelievable contemptuous fascist behaviour!! The Home Sec, Patel, is another notable offender. It has become routine for ministers to lie and divert contracts to friends and party donors. The population in England has been conditioned to accept such bad behaviour as the norm!
But this is just the "tip of the iceberg" TBF - civil servants and others are being pressured to overlook conventions and their consciences to become enablers of iniquity. Indeed, by many accounts the head of the UK Civil Service seems to be more exercised in preventing Scot independence than upholding the integrity of his office - HE HAS OPTED TO ENABLE AND NOT OPPOSE OR EVEN OBJECT - AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO SUCH A REPUTABLE INSTITUTION!!Also re the BBC - quietly and almost without demur, it has been co-opted to the Brit "Brexit" govt cause. Its leadership is now unashamedly partisan. Indeed, its bosses may have been chosen on that basis - DON'T EXPECT IMPARTIAL OUTPUT FROM AN ORGANISATION SO PROFOUNDLY COMPROMISED!! All of this foul ethos is due directly to the lack of controls over ministerial behaviour and because the UK constitution is whatever the govt of the day, with a working majority, says it is i.e. NO WRITTEN CONSTITUTION FOR CIVIL SERVANTS ETC TO ABIDE BY!! Once this ethos of low standards and corruption is embedded, any extreme behaviour is possible. Even the inner workings of the Royal Family, with the fourth estate devoted to so-called monitors of standards, has failed in giving little attention to the moral decline around them. IMO all of this shit could've been prevented had the UK been in possession of a written constitution.