Iain Duncan Smith kept on to continue his reign of terror over the most vulnerable. If the BBC had done its job...
But the revival of the Snoopers' Charter by Theresa May, and the appointment of the totally unqualified Michael Gove as Justice Secretary, ought to preclude any suggestion of Yvette Cooper as Leader of the Labour Party.
Cooper comes out of the New Labour authoritarian school that imposed all manner of assaults on civil liberties, and which failed to oppose adequately, if at all, the ones proposed since 2010.
The teachers managed to get rid of Gove, and they had nothing like the means at their disposal that the lawyers have. This is going to be great fun to watch. But while he is there, then he needs to be opposed properly in Parliament.
As for May, she has created the situation whereby the Government could enact any anti-union laws that it liked, because no one would ever be arrested under them. The people who would be supposed to make the arrests would themselves be engaged in unlawful industrial action, or just in a general refusal to co-operate with the regime.
"co-operate with the regime."
ReplyDeleteIt's a democratically-elected Government, actually, not a "regime".
And Parliament, not lawyers or the police, is sovereign in this country.
Good luck.
DeleteNo one hates this Government more than the Police do. No one.