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12 Mar, 8 tweets, 3 min read
1/ If we don't resist authoritarianism now, when will we, asks the radio?

Here are 5 times we did & the media were absent, complicit:

1. Conservative manifesto.
2. Covid19 enabling act
3. Legalise bribery act
4. licence to kill act
5. Corporate Manslaughter switch

Sources⏬
2/ 1. Conservative Manifesto
Ironically if anyone should have been screaming about this sordid document, it should have been the libertarian right.
They were silent. Look at the small print.

3/ 2. The Enabling Act
The unbelievable powers written into the original #covid19 emergency powers act

4/ 3. The Legalised Bribery Act?
You know this as the Internal Markets act, which you think is about international lawbreaking. It was.
And they slipped in so much more.
5/ 4. The Licence to Kill Act?
Unbelievable in scope, it allows for death sentences by edict.
Is it limited to the Foreign office under extreme circumstances?
Erm. Gambling Commission?
Food Standards Agency?

6/ 5. The corporate manslaughter switch?
Politicians made themselves unprosecutable for gross negligence despite promising the opposite.

7/ Some more examples?
While media slept, even the Arch Bishop of Canterbury noticed!

8/ Anyone can learn from history

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