Sure, but the canceling of jury trials, and the right to protest, and politicians declaring protest groups terrorists and bad faith, are all more worrisome, and this is the fucking short list.
All those seemingly disparate things all serve a simple objective:
It’s all about suppressing any attempts from civil society to change the system at a time when it has become obvious that the way the country is managed and working is not delivering anything but decay for most people. The only “disruptive” social and political thing left to run in peace is the safe, controlled outlet for public anger that are the far-right parties as these blame foreigners and social minorities (NEVER the wealthy) for all the ills of the country, thus deflecting that rage away from the people who, having always held power in Britain made things the way they are.
You see this in plenty of other countries in Europe, but the UK is way more autoritarian (if more elegant and discrete) than the rest, possibly because its a far more classist and stratified society, with power and wealth having been in the same families for far longer than in the rest of Europe (literally that last great social upheaval in Britain was in the 17th century and it was top-down and all about religion).
Sure, but the canceling of jury trials, and the right to protest, and politicians declaring protest groups terrorists and bad faith, are all more worrisome, and this is the fucking short list.
All those seemingly disparate things all serve a simple objective:
It’s all about suppressing any attempts from civil society to change the system at a time when it has become obvious that the way the country is managed and working is not delivering anything but decay for most people. The only “disruptive” social and political thing left to run in peace is the safe, controlled outlet for public anger that are the far-right parties as these blame foreigners and social minorities (NEVER the wealthy) for all the ills of the country, thus deflecting that rage away from the people who, having always held power in Britain made things the way they are.
You see this in plenty of other countries in Europe, but the UK is way more autoritarian (if more elegant and discrete) than the rest, possibly because its a far more classist and stratified society, with power and wealth having been in the same families for far longer than in the rest of Europe (literally that last great social upheaval in Britain was in the 17th century and it was top-down and all about religion).