“While the whole country is still compulsively debating whether, when, & how often its Prime Minister has lied and cheated…this government is hammering away at the very foundations of what Britain once stood for more than any other country: liberal democracy.” @annettedittert
https://twitter.com/newstatesman/status/1470447340318298121
We have had far too little focused debate on the detail of draconian legislation put forward by govt, ramming it through Parliament with a huge majority & little scrutiny. Protest rights, citizenship, electoral ID, refugees & aconstant chipping away at the separation of powers.
The comparisons with Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice Party (PiS) party in Poland, which won an absolute majority in 2015, and its subsequent “assault on the two pillars of any democracy – the judiciary & media” - are important. We assume it can’t happen in our democracy.
Worth seeing @annettedittert’s article in the current rule of law & democracy context that Dominic Grieve QC, former AG, discusses in @BylineTimes.
There is a raft of draconian legislation being proposed, with a drumroll against any institution that might hold govt accountable.
There is a raft of draconian legislation being proposed, with a drumroll against any institution that might hold govt accountable.
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