| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 08:54 - Nov 19 with 1440 views | Herbivore |
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/18/shocking-scale-of-uk-government
Not an entirely new story but the scale of them surveilling and blacklisting individuals appears to be large. Incredible that they claim to champion 'free speech' and have introduced legislation to threaten universities with fines if they no platform racists and transphobes whilst at the same time banning schools from using content from groups they disagree with and blacklisting experts who have been critical of the government or government policy.
Not only are they the most utterly incompetent government we've ever had, they're the most thin-skinned and authoritarian as well. We can't get them out soon enough. |  |
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| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 09:06 - Nov 19 with 1395 views | MattinLondon |
At this point I’d like to apologise to Callis for criticising him when he stated that this government had fascist tendencies. At the time I thought that he was over-the-top, but no, he was right. |  | | |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 09:37 - Nov 19 with 1346 views | Guthrum |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 09:06 - Nov 19 by MattinLondon |
At this point I’d like to apologise to Callis for criticising him when he stated that this government had fascist tendencies. At the time I thought that he was over-the-top, but no, he was right. |
Whereas I maintain that is a misrepresentation of the Fascists under Mussolini, who were at least a working-class, semi-socialist movement. Closer to the 1930s German model, given the strain of xenophobia and the willingness to betray populism for big business/finance.
But even more aligned with the Central and South American reactionary regimes which were put in place specifically to protect business interests and monopolies.
Tho they are still a long way from throwing political opponents out of aeroplanes. Plus Britain is very fortunate in that the military stays well out of politics. |  |
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| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 11:24 - Nov 19 with 1234 views | MattinLondon |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 09:37 - Nov 19 by Guthrum |
Whereas I maintain that is a misrepresentation of the Fascists under Mussolini, who were at least a working-class, semi-socialist movement. Closer to the 1930s German model, given the strain of xenophobia and the willingness to betray populism for big business/finance.
But even more aligned with the Central and South American reactionary regimes which were put in place specifically to protect business interests and monopolies.
Tho they are still a long way from throwing political opponents out of aeroplanes. Plus Britain is very fortunate in that the military stays well out of politics. |
Is there any truth to the ‘story’ that the army nearly mounted a coup in the 1970s in order to topple the then Labour government? | | | |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 13:33 - Nov 19 with 1068 views | Guthrum |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 11:24 - Nov 19 by MattinLondon |
Is there any truth to the ‘story’ that the army nearly mounted a coup in the 1970s in order to topple the then Labour government? |
There was talk of "coup plotting", but it's hard to gauge how serious or significant it ever was. Whether just a handful of disaffected officers or something widespread enough to have ever have been put into action, let alone succeeding.
There has been a fairly strict separation between the military and politics in Britain since the events of the 1650s (and, to an extent, 1688). | |
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| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 13:56 - Nov 19 with 1046 views | factual_blue |
| The Tories are thin-skinned authoritarians #38474 on 13:33 - Nov 19 by Guthrum |
There was talk of "coup plotting", but it's hard to gauge how serious or significant it ever was. Whether just a handful of disaffected officers or something widespread enough to have ever have been put into action, let alone succeeding.
There has been a fairly strict separation between the military and politics in Britain since the events of the 1650s (and, to an extent, 1688). |
Also Wilson was, by about 1975, starting to realise he had the early signs of dementia and that probably contributed to his paranoia about this sort of thing.
His illness explains, at least in part, why he resigned in 1976. |  |
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