Thread by @theGrit_music

We are now sliding into fascism.

How? A thread.

#Brexit #Rwanda #ToryCorruption

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Authoritarian leaders can't just flick a switch and turn a democratic, free country into a fascist state. It takes time.

Two major things needed to happen.

1) They needed to remove the control of external forces

2) They needed to soften and weaken the population

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EU legislation protected our population on key issues such as workers' rights, human rights and right to protest.

They needed us out of the EU and so paid their pet tabloids to slowly drip feed negative messaging about the EU to the population over years.

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The 2008 financial crisis provided a perfect opportunity for them to weaken the population and reduce resilience whilst protecting their friends and making themselves stronger at the expense of the population.

When times are hard, people vote for change.

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By the time they called the EU referendum enough of the population was convinced that the EU was a negative force or wanted change that they were willing to vote out.

They had removed the control of external forces.

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Since then they water down our human rights, reduce our right to protest, potentially remove our ability to strike, change rules to make themselves less accountable...

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...potentially engineer lower vote counts in certain demographics, water down privacy legislation, restructure media outlets they don't like and attempt to reduce the powers of the electoral commission to name but a few.

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Slowly but surely they have been chipping away at our ability to stand up to them.

They have now softened and weakened the population.

Their latest gambit is the #Rwanda policy.

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This is divisive but has a great deal of support from their voter base. Crucially though, it was never going to get support from the European court of human rights.

They are, yet again, grooming #Brexit voters & their Conservative base who want a hard policy on immigration.

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Now all they have to do is claim that the EU is blocking us from dealing with immigration once again, and they will have support for pulling out of compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights.

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This is a MAJOR element of their plan. These are the very rights that protect us from abuse by state actors. We will essentially be rendered powerless in the face of state abuse.

Exactly what they want.

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The #Rwanda policy isn't about illegal immigration and it certainly isn't about "saving lives".

It's about power.

It's about them taking power from you and me.

This is a dangerous road and we should be very alert to the consequence.

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