Living in Gordon Brown's New Labour Police State, now and in the future

Read this from England Expects and wonder at how we have allowed ourselves to end up living like this. A pensioner can be arrested and on his "stop and search form they said they wanted to speak to him, under the Terrorism Act, because he had been looking at a police officer...Once at the police station we were taken to separate rooms and questioned for about 45 minutes...Then officers went with us to our flat and searched it before returning us to the pub. We feel violated..."

As England expects says it is Constable Savage reborn. Constable Savage was a Not the Nine O'Clock News character in a sketch who arrested Mr Winston Kodogo for "Looking at me in a funny way". That 1980's sketch was attacking the police for being racist, now the police are more likely to arrest a pensioner for "looking at a police officer" and for having "been seen passing a white envelope" or for heckling a Labour Minister, remember Walter Wolfgang? This time it took eight police officers to arrest two disabled, innocent pensioners having a quiet drink in their local, next time they might be coming for you. As The Holloways sing so well:

"So this is great britain and welcome aboard
A sinking ship thats full of shit and someone nicked the oars
A failing false economy
an anti-punk automony
Our once unique Identity's
Been washed from our shores

...

In a land of hope and glory
do we really rule the waves?
The truth is a different story
We're all just a bunch of slaves"


Many more years of this New Labour government and our already reduced freedoms will be further diminished. Any freedoms left to us will be at the gift of the state, not ours as of right. We will belong to the state and Gordon will graciously allow us to live here; so long as we pay our taxes, carry our papers ID card, not protest, not speak out of turn, take part in the daily Two Minute Hate, listen to and believe only the Ministry of Truth (aka The BBC), not think out of turn, not do anything other than that that is the path chosen for us by the Great Clunking Fist. You can laugh and sneer at my view of our future, but think about it just a bit more and it gets less funny and more plausible.

Gordon Brown was compared to Stalin by his former top civil servant Lord Turnbull, once Whitehall's most senior mandarin, a man who said that Gordon Brown treated other senior ministers "with more or less complete contempt". Lord Turnbull said in the Financial Times, of Mr Brown's style: "You cannot help admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all." That is how he will increasingly treat the British public, with ruthlessness, to him we are no more than sponges there to be squeezed to extract ever larger tax revenue and to vote him back into power, election after fixed election, so he can proclaim the glorious success of yet another 5 year plan. We will all hail the "Brilliant Genius of Humanity" and marvel at "the extraordinary modesty characteristic of truly great people" and all will be well in Airstrip One.

Remember:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake… We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

Thanks are due to George Orwell's 1984 and a biography of Stalin for most of the quotes in this piece.