Remember how back when the Snowden Revelations came out that the UK had civil society surveillace network just as big or bigger than the US (both of which being a lot more like what Russia and China do than what one would naivelly expect in Democractic countries)?
Well, in the US some of it was actually rolled back because it was unconstitutional.
In the UK, which has no written Constitution, even though what they were doing was unlawfull at the time, it was simply all made retroactivelly lawful by a law passed by that government. Then the Editor of the newspaper who brought out the Snowden Revelations - which is this very newspaper - was kicked out never to be hired to any important position by any large media company over there again, and the whole thing was never again mentioned including by this very newspaper that has been producing “what a surprise!” articles like this every time their government passes another “lets be more like China” law like this.
That country has a voting system as rigged as the one in the US (hence how the current government has 60% of parliamentarians on 42% of votes), no Constitution to protect even basic rights from a government with a mere “37% of votes” (enough for this party to get a parliamentary majority) and political and money elites which are far more elitist (think people who see most other people as “plebes”) and authoritarian-leaning than pretty much all other democratic nations (I suppose the jury is out on whether the UK Tories are worse than Orban or not, though they’re certainly much posher sounding)
Stregth through unity and unity through faith?
How is this not a fourth amendment violation? If the government can ignore the rules the people should do the same.
The UK doesn’t even have a written Constitution, much less one with at least 4 amendments.
They have a government with 60% parliamentary seats on 42% of votes (theirs is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, not a presidential system) who are not that far from Fascist and moving towards it (what’s in this article is far from the worst liberty-curtailing things they’ve done) only the posh education of its members give them that special posh-sounding language accent (yeah, rich people have a different unique accent over there) and posh manners and language use that so dazzles some foreigners and a certain old and undereducated slice of the locals.
In the absence of a written Constituton and now that, having left the EU, they are not bound by treaty to be members of the European Convention Of Human Rights (which, by the way, was one of the very reasons some of the current government members stated for supporting Brexit), they’re leading the country towards Fascism one step at a time (though they’re too poshly educated to do something as unseemly as actually goose-stepping)