We put this short video out this lunchtime:
This is the transcript:
First, they came for George Floyd.
Then they came for Renee Good.
And they could come for you.
My point is that fascism is growing fast. We're all at risk from the developing political movement around the world that we now see has virtually taken over the USA.
Let's not pretend the USA is a democracy anymore. It isn't. It's a dictatorship. Trump is ruling by fear. His troops on the streets are killing people. If we want to stand up against this form of tyranny, we've got to make up our minds now.
Politicians in Europe will copy what Trump is doing. The risk is, we'll see it here.
If we want freedom, if we want security, if we want democracy, if we want the choice to live how we wish, then we've got to say so now and demand action from our politicians because fascism is coming our way, and it's our job to oppose it.
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The son of a tool-maker is already “tooled-up” and heading towards fascism:
❌The Public Order Act 2023 and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 allow for the arrest of protesters for “locking on” or causing “serious disruption”.
❌The Online Safety Act allows for:
.. .. .. the removal of “legal” but controversial political and social content,
.. .. .. enabling the police to arrest people for “offensive” or “harmful” posts.
.. .. .. the monitoring of social media posts (i.e. police surveillance of free speech).
❌The arrest of several journalists, including Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson and Richard Barnard.
❌The arrest of hundreds of peaceful protestors,
I have just posted on Substack on this.
And now the ‘cumulative disturbance’ catch-all! Anticipating action against a meeting in Lichfield by Homeland (Nazi wannabees), a member of the Greens has already declined to do anything due to a fear of arrest.
Do you have a link?
I am not so sure that the UK will descend into fascism. Johnson and his corrupt gov tried to move us to the far right, but was an inglorious failure. Farage will, I believe, go the same way, perhaps in a few years.
My reasoning is that the majority of citizens here are reasonable, decent people, centrist politically and have an extreme dislike at heart for fascism. This has been handed down to them from parents and grandparents and taught in schools. I think people here will resist fiercely any extreme form of authoritarianism, probably by mocking it.I also can’t see the judiciary bending over as much as they’ve done for Trump who is not popular here. I just cannot see it, but
I’ve been wrong about a few things in politics over the last 15 years.
30% know what Farage is and want to vote for him.
That is ample enough to deliver fascism.
I do not share your confidence, at all. I have worried about this for 20 plus years, from the moment I really understood the goals of those running tax havens.
Alan,
Surely the lesson from European history is that fascism can happen anywhere where it is not challenged?
I’m not sure that because (you consider) a “majority of citizens here are reasonable, decent people, centrist politically and have an extreme dislike at heart for fascism” is sufficient protection.
Vast majority of people in early 1930’s Germany were not Nazis — but fascism emerged.
I fear that “the extreme dislike at heart for Fascism” that you say is felt by a majority of the population is about people in uniform goose-stepping to invade other countries. What Richard is showing us is how that clichéd image is the only end result of a process that starts in much more (apparently) mundane ways which are so apparent in so-called democracies.