{"id":56019,"date":"2021-03-14T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=56019"},"modified":"2021-03-14T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:40:36","slug":"welcome-to-the-police-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/14\/welcome-to-the-police-state-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the police state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/12\/15\/welcome-to-the-police-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote this on this blog on 15 December 2010<\/a>, under the above title:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/student-protests-may-be-banned-altogether-if-violence-continues-2160620.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Police State<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cScotland Yard will consider asking the Home Secretary to ban further student marches should the levels of violence which have marred the recent protests continue, Britain's most senior police officer said yesterday.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Labour were bad on civil liberties. And in the wrong hands their legislation is being abused.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Goodbye to freedom of association and the right to protest then.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Except the truth is people will protest if they want to, whether the police like it or not \u2014 and nothing will stop them. Police states always fail in the end. But do we really have to test this hypothesis in the UK?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last night we saw the evidence that the attempt to create a police state here is still in progress.<\/p>\n<p>We still have to make sure that it fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this on this blog on 15 December 2010, under the above title: Welcome to the Police State: \u201cScotland Yard will consider asking the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/03\/14\/welcome-to-the-police-state-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}