Right Out of Their Minds

Wow! Is this really what we've come to - the Home Secretary standing up in the Commons screeching away like some Twitter crazy about 'coaltions of chaos' led by 'Labour, Guardian reading tofu-eating wokerati', as she defends new measures which will allow the arrest of people who might be thinking of organising disruptive protests.  Not actually protesting, you understand.  Just thinking about it.  As for that 'coalition of chaos', (which, presumably, is a sub-set of the 'Anti-Growth Coalition'), well, I'm both a Labour Party member and a Guardian reader, but I've never eaten tofu in my life and I'm only 'woke' in the sense that I don't like Nazis, so am I in or out?  It feels like we're going down the same path as the Trunpist extremists in the States, with government and their media cronies trying to redefine anyone who stands against extremists and oppressors as bad,as somehow being against 'free speech' and 'liberty', implying therefore that those they oppose must be the good guys, even if they are neo-Nazis in all but name.  Just look at the demonisation of 'Antifa', (actually as non-existent as a centrally organised body as Al Qeada was), labelling them 'domestic terrorists' while the only violence actually being carried out was by Nazis and their ilk against protestors.  (But because they were the 'good' guys standing up to those beastly terrorists protesting against them, they were generally able to get away with murder.

But obviously we want all these restrictions on our ability to protest and suppression of our right to free speech, (all in the name of protecting the right of free speech on the part of Nazis, Brexiteers and the rights of those multinational corporations seeking to exploit the environment, our lack of rights as workers, our health care system, etc), otherwise we wouldn't have given the Tories that eighty seat majority at the election, (despite them getting only 43% of the vote).  Besides, suppressing the freedom of expression of moaners and critics has never been more important - negativity about the  havoc wreaked on the UK economy by the Tories is what's pulling this country down.  It's downright unpatriotic - don't people know that it was necessary to destroy the UK in order to save it?  People have just got to brace themselves and rally behind Prime Minister Liz Truss - until the Tories can find a competent replacement.  Yes indeed, that fabled 'unity candidate' who can bring the party and the country back together again in order to ensure the continuation of Tory government.  Where such a person can be found is the question, though.  Should the Tories set out on some kind of Holy Grail quest, looking for the right wing loon with the sacred birthmark, or whatever?  Or will it be plan B?  The synthesis of a new leader by stitching together the best bits of various existing Tory MPs, Frankenstein-style?  Or have they already tried that, with Therese Coffey as the result?