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> I have no better explanation why UK is pushing so hard on its own populace. Maybe the tories are just plain evil? Maybe there doesn't need to be a grand rea
by s_kilk 11y ago
> I have no better explanation why UK is pushing so hard on its own populace.
Maybe the tories are just plain evil?
Maybe there doesn't need to be a grand reason and explanation behind it all, maybe they just have a hunger for harming others?
- Joeboy 11y agoBut it's not just others. I'm sure Tories are just as vulnerable to blackmail, theft etc as anybody else.
- EwanToo 11y agoThe bill appears to have the full support of most Labour MPs too..
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoIt's not just the Tories. The Home Office is always full of cryptofascist authoritarian loons. Doesn't matter who the serving minister is - the agenda and means are always the same.
- dingaling 11y agoThe core of legislation is proposed to the Government by the upper echelons of civil service. Those Permanent Secretaries et al don't change when a new Government is elected, unlike the US, so they can play a long game. Here's the current chap at the Home Office, https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-sedwill https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-sedwill
- timthorn 11y agoThis type of meme simply hurts the quality of politics and pushes us towards the type of highly polarised governance that the US suffers from. Politics should be a nuanced process but that's so much harder when each side holds that the others are simply malicious. An interesting writeup of a Tory meeting the protestors at this year's Conservative party conference brings that home: http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2015/10/george-grant-meeting-manchesters-class-warriors.html http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2015/10/george-gran...