0? Hardly. For a simple pop-culture counterpoint, V for Vendetta was written as an indictment of the UK’s slide into fascism. It was published in 1982. Fascism doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a slow boil erosion of rights and democracy that works in the shadows of government over decades to dissolve checks and balances from the inside and within the law.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
What is happening in the UK?
You guys went from 0 to authoritarian like very quickly
Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 months ago
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 months ago
UK has a fascist party disguised as a labour party running the show, that is what happened. Starmer is justing warming Nigel’s seat, that is his whole purpose in this shit show and he knows that.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
They were warned that Labour was fascist but like everywhere else in the wold, just ignored it or didn’t care, hell the UK nazi party (aka Reform) is polling very well and dragging Labour and Tory further right.
Twig@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
The Labour Party is nowhere near fascist. Authoritarian? Yes.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Arrests for online posts isn’t new here.
Zombie@feddit.uk 7 months ago
(New) New Labour got back in power.
Labour are meant to be the left wing workers party. Old school Labour are socialists that brought in such things as the NHS (free healthcare) and The Open University (non-elitist university education open to anybody) in the mid-1900s.
New Labour first came into power in 1997 and left in 2010, they got back in last year (2024). They are not socialist by any means. They pretend at times to be socialist because of the image and reputation of Labour but in reality they’re capitalists. These are the people that introduced privatisation into the NHS (so you can only get healthcare for certain things if you are rich enough) and started the Iraq War 2 with Bush. They have always had an authoritarian streak but the socialists still within the party generally managed to hold them off. They had plans for mass surveillance and mandatory ID cards, but never managed to implement it by the time they lost the 2010 election.
Now they’re back, and the socialist elements of the party have been shunned ot kicked out, so the authoritarians can near do as they wish now.
In one year they have:
- cut winter fuel payments for the elderly
- cut disability benefits
- continued with austerity for public services, making everyone poorer
- cosied up to banks by saying red tape needs cut
- declared nature protections to be in the way
- helped Israel commit genocide by providing equipment and intel
- proscribed a protest group that spray painted 2 planes as terrorist organisations
- given a racist speech to pander to the far right
- brought in draconian restrictions on the internet
- want a vast increase in facial recognition cameras
- announced plans to implement a mandatory digital ID
I’ve been sitting on the toilet too long writing this now so that’ll do, but here’s some more reading if you wish:
tribunemag.co.uk/…/new-labours-authoritarianism-i…
scotsman.com/…/palestine-action-ban-reveals-labou…
Twig@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
They didn’t cut winter fuel payments. They just made it means tested, as these things should be.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Probably not a coincidence New Labour rose around the same time as the US Democrats Third Way neoliberals, whodid much of the same in regards to gutting socialists from the party.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fuck me, it’s got to be pretty miserable being British at the moment?
It’s not like the Tories were doing anything to better their lives, but hold crap Labour are definitely on world record pace speed-running Fascism any%.
Zombie@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Even more miserable being Scottish knowing we could have escaped all this in 2014.
…wikipedia.org/…/2014_Scottish_independence_refer…
Our devolved parliament is more left wing than Westminster but it has limited powers so our sanctuary is minimal.
There’s also the times where Westminster has ruled on things that should be devolved and when it has overruled Scotland.
It’s shite being Scottish!
We’re the lowest of the low!
The scum of the fucking Earth!
The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation!
Some people hate the English, I don’t! They’re just wankers!
We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers!
Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by!
We’re ruled by effete assholes!
It’s a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!urandom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To think the message against independence was something like “keeping the union strong”, while at the same time the message for brexit was “better alone” or some shit like that.
Slovene@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I’ve been sitting on the toilet too long writing this now so that’ll do, but here’s some more reading if you wish:
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I bet your legs have fallen asleep.
yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
Always has been
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
First time? UK going full auth mode and inspiring a vicious uprising and rebellion is one of the oldest traditions in their culture.
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The UK has been arresting people for saying offensive things for a long time. It’s just that most of the victims were on the right, and most people on the left were cheering for it. Now that the laws are being used against their side and their causes, they’re sad and outraged. It’s a tale as old as democracy: people don’t care until it materially affects them. Every time we give up rights or give governments more power, no matter how justified we think the cause today, those powers will eventually be turned against us.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 months ago
Count Dankula only got an 800 pound fine and no jail time. He also wasn’t raided, and I doubt they took his fingerprints and DNA either. These people are spending a days in jail for no fucking reason.
The dog doing a Nazi salute is stupid. Really stupid. But what is happening here is that they are discussing something serious. If count Dankula was arrested for speaking about some new law or whatever it would be an entirely different case.