Democracy has never seen the light of day in this patch of land known as the United Kingdom. We have moved from divine rights of monarchs to a so called constitutional monarchy, where a person elected by the people goes to the monarch to ask permission to form a government. That same monarch signs the death warrants of individuals in certain places known as crown dependencies. So it should come as no surprise that the subservient elected government should continue this system of control to keep the power and wealth where it is. This requires total control over the population. Hence all the draconian measures to ban protests, make strikes illegal and censor what you can say or read. The following quote gives some idea of how UK democracy works.
The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”
Recently we discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crackdown on free speech.
All this makes it easier for the state to shut you down if it doesn't like what you are saying or doing, hardly the hallmark of democracy. Of course all this clampdown on freedom of expression requires a massive surveillance system, which the state already has but wishes to push this further in their favour. They are now calling for the end of encrypted messages, so that they can snoop on anything and everything you might wish to send to friends and family. It is all backed up by those boys in blue, known for racism, homophobic attitudes and abuse of power.
If we want a democracy then we have to get rid of the state system, the power structure that reinforces that system, we have to end this system where wealth means power. Democracy can only survive in a free and equal system of mutual aid and co-operation a system without borders, leaders and the profit motive. We could try the one system that stands for these things, it's called anarchism.
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