{"id":85415,"date":"2025-08-28T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85415"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:07:31","slug":"why-do-you-want-to-go-back-to-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/28\/why-do-you-want-to-go-back-to-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you want to go back to tyranny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We published this video on YouTube as long-form content this evening. It actually went out as short-form content this morning to support this morning's long-form video on the same topic, and it will be our policy to post in this way for the whole to see if this works.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nigel Farage says he wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act. But here\u2019s the truth: that means your rights go too. From freedom of speech, to free elections, to the right to a fair trial \u2013 all would be under threat. In this video, I explain what\u2019s really at stake if Farage gets his way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MNAZZDkdmPo?si=htyV6QVfmZBl3aW5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the transcript:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Nigel Farage wants to suspend your human rights.<\/p>\n<p>That's, of course, not what he's saying in public, but since when did Nigel Farage ever tell the truth?<\/p>\n<p>What he is saying is he wants to abolish the UK Human Rights Act, which brought into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights, which was a British creation \u200aafter the Second World War, inspired by Winston Churchill of all people.<\/p>\n<p>And he \u200awants to remove the rights of refugees, and he wants to do that so he can expel people from the UK, he says.<\/p>\n<p>But the consequences are dire because he will take away your human rights as a result.<\/p>\n<p>You won't have the right to a free trial.<\/p>\n<p>You won't have the right to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>You won't have the right to own property.<\/p>\n<p>You won't have the Right to Free Elections.<\/p>\n<p>You won't have rights to a great many things that you have now, including the freedom from torture and discrimination and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to give up all the rights that hold government at bay in this country that were designed to end tyranny of the sort that we saw in the 1940s, and which motivated the creation of these rights, just to be able to expel a tiny number of people who've arrived illegally in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>Is that a sacrifice you really want to make?<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>You want to put Nigel Farage in charge of every aspect of your life without any legal protection from what his government might do?<\/p>\n<p>If so, why?<\/p>\n<p>You've been protected from the tyranny of government, \u200aand we know governments can be tyrannical. Why do you want to go back to tyranny again? is the question I have to ask.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Comments\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When commenting, please take note of this blog\u2019s comment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/about\/comments\/\">which is available here<\/a>. Contravening this policy will result in comments being deleted before or after initial publication at the editor\u2019s sole discretion and without explanation being required or offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We published this video on YouTube as long-form content this evening. It actually went out as short-form content this morning to support this morning&#8217;s long-form<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/28\/why-do-you-want-to-go-back-to-tyranny\/\"><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":[215,14,16,203,106,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-fascism","category-politics","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415","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=85415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85465,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415\/revisions\/85465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}