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Thursday, 4 June 2009

Omens of more of the same for Joe Public if TotalitarianTories get in...

The Talking Clock was getting a bit tired of wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's speech on both the BBC and Sky News, so we flicked over to the BBC Parliament channel.

We're glad we did.

We were greeted by a debate on protest outside Parliament. Well, we say 'debate'. More a discussion between the handful of MPs - roughly two dozen - who bothered to turn up to the House of Snouts.

Anyway, it consisted of Conservative MPs demanding that something must be done about protesters outside Parliament. The argument was that MPs must get free and unfettered access to Westminster. And that meant putting pressure on the plodders to make sure that protesters get nowhere near the seat of our democracy.

The people who think they're elected to be our rulers banned us from protesting anywhere near Parliament once. Apparently, we can protest there again now, provided we are in groups of less than fifty people. Oooh, generous.

As one Tory was venting his outrage that the public might want to say something in a democracy and inconvenience him, it took a fellow Tory from a sedentary position to whisper and prompt that inconvenience effected MP's 'and the public' - then hastily repeated out loud to make the democracy decrying comments look a bit more respectable.

Repulsed, we were then amazed to see a member of the ZaNuLiebour party get to his feet and say that the public had rights too and that there was a balance to be struck. So, not all of the socialist ZaNuLiebour rulers are total control freaks then... just virtually all of them with the odd one or two exceptions.

Same thing happened yesterday in the House of Lords where Tory Earl Ferrer stood up and said of the Tamil protests: "Do you think that it is right that a whole lot of people from other countries should come here, should inundate Parliament Square, should inundate the roads around Parliament Square and bring their cooking utensils and have fry-ups on Parliament Square and prevent people getting access to Parliament, using vast quantities of police?".

It does actually show how the Met Police are in a difficult position. If they give the British public our rights to our democracy, they get slated by the rulers in the House of Snouts and in the House of Snoots.

If they do the bidding of their political masters and smash a few of our heads in, we cam the entire lot, send it to The Guardian, and walk around not trusting them one iota. What are the plodders to do?

Of course, the solution is simple. We must not vote for the totalitarians. Not of the Tweedle-Dee Party, nor of the Tweedle-Dum Party. Why swap one group of freedom hating dictators for another? We, the public are the masters, and the people in the Snouts and Snoots are our servants. On paper anyway.

So, if you're sick of the jackbooted authoritarian ZaNuLiebour party (as we are), do think very hard about whether you want to swap them for the TotalitarianTories.

We have some signs here. And remember that they have a manifesto commitment to increase stop and search powers. Yes, increase them. Can you imagine? But that's one of their key proposals. They're also going to do away with the forms that are issued if you're a victim of stop and search. And they're going to allow RIPA to be used without any authorisation being needed. Don't take our word for it. It's in their manifesto.

Don't timidly submit to the totalitarian tiptoe by blindly voting for the wannabe TotalitarianTories.

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