Originally posted on Guy Debord's Cat:
Whenever I hear someone tell me that we live in a “free country”, I
laugh and I laugh long, loud and hard. Britain is a country in which
people are spied on for being environmental activists and blacklisted if they are members of trade unions. The democratic process is corrupted by right-wing politicians who abolish county councils because they oppose government policy
and they gerrymander constituency boundaries to stay in power. Those
who speak out about abuses in high places are shut down or marginalized.
This is a country in which you cannot say what you like, even though you know it to be true, because some fat bastard with a fat wallet is going to threaten you with a libel/slander suit. This is a country where members of trade unions are blacklisted and denied employment opportunities because their union activity.
This is a country in which you cannot say what you like, even though you know it to be true, because some fat bastard with a fat wallet is going to threaten you with a libel/slander suit. This is a country where members of trade unions are blacklisted and denied employment opportunities because their union activity.
