Thread by @nickreeves9876

Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing bill

Patel is attacking the very basis of our democracy. This is the kind of legislation the Chinese government would want to use in Hong Kong.
inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…

Johnson's 'Fuck business' and shambolic CBI speech are no accident. The Tories no longer represent themselves and ordinary British business. The Tory elite serves only itself and its super-rich often offshore backers. Neither of these groups has any care or need for democracy.

I do not believe the Tory elite is conspiring to destroy democracy. But whenever particular democratic rights, liberties and structures become a nuisance, the Tories will seek to weaken or erase them. Bit by bit, without any plan, they will dismantle democracy.

I do, however, believe that Priti Patel is a full-on enemy of democracy. Every action she undertakes erodes our democracy, and then there is this image - Patel presenting herself in the style of a dictator in a dystopian movie set in an authoritarian Britain of the near future.