Britain, a country which practically invented the tenets of free speech, is now the most repressive, backward country of the West.
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Britain, a country which practically invented the tenets of free speech, is now the most repressive, backward country of the West which is ridiculed on a daily basis by the very same countries that it regaled for its human rights record. There are just too many cases to rattle off which have at least made the news – social media, at least – but the mother who had police officers come into her house while she was in the bath to arrest her for calling an ex-boyfriend a ‘faggot’ has shocked many, given that the boyfriend in question beat her up and the message was not even sent to him. Elizabeth Kinney escaped jail but received a sentence involving community service and a considerable fine. Kinney was just one of around 12,000 people each year in the UK who are arrested and charged for giving their views about a given subject which the state deems could hurt someone, or in the case of politics, if it simply challenges a narrative. This farce would appear to have gotten out of hand when the long arm of the law even arrested and questioned right-wing hack Katie Holmes, who, during a stand-up comedy routine called herself a “spazza” and was subsequently detained for hours by UK police for the “offence”.
Yet while Britain sinks to an all-time low with the state strangling its citizens right to express thoughts, or even think in the case of an anti-abortion activist who was arrested for having a quiet prayer in her head what is remarkable is the lack of hue and cry by the masses who are very well versed on history and what they believe their ancestors were fighting for in two world wars. Often older people, who are very lucid in their ideas about why the British don’t carry identity cards, unlike Europeans, will not really have a strong reaction to the wave of absurd and worrying arrests for those who wish to practice free speech, around 30 a day.
Perhaps what is more remarkable though is how the world is watching this every day and commenting on how Britain is literally crumbling. A recent interview by Tucker Carlson on Piers Morgan involved the American polemicist goading the British commentator to say a rude word during the interview, claiming that Morgan would probably be arrested at a later point for merely uttering the vulgar word.
More strikingly is the extraordinary hypocrisy as, given the UK now more or less a third world country and carries out its repression of human rights much as some might expect the regime in North Korea might, you would think the government would lie low on the international stage. For the comedy to be cranked up even one more level, the British government continues to deliver its incongruent moral tutelage to the old favourites it likes to chastise on human rights. Remarkably, Yvette Cooper, a British minister released a statement on the 15th of December calling for the Chinese government in Hong Kong to release Jimmy Lai for him to continue to express his views.
Britain, renowned for its zealous use of irony, is a country which has an impressive track record for locking up people for having a point of view which clashes with the elite’s narrative. Tommy Robinson, a right-wing activist, has regularly been sent to prison for his views just to give one example. But more recently, it was particularly disturbing to witness on social media, the detainment of George Galloway at Gatwick airport when he returned from a trip to Russia with his wife, whereby security officers questioned him and his wife about their views on Russia and China, when in reality all the wanted was to use the arrest as a pretext to gaining access to communication devices. This is Britain. A country which created the Magna Carta and was once hailed as the beacon free speech and liberty stooping to such a disgusting level to intimidate ordinary law-abiding citizens who, in the case of Galloway, have a successful talk show on the internet which has a robust loathing for western hegemony and shows millions of people what tawdry gains it seeks with its policies around the world.
And with this new world order which the British public have had thrust upon them, western elites have gained a new confidence just how far this treatment can be taken. And here we really are getting into an irony-free zone when it comes to how we treat dictators who are useful to us and the journalists who try to expose their embezzlement, theft and general graft.
It might have caught your attention recently that the caretaker president of Ukraine is in a spot of hot water as most of his close aides are being investigated for corruption, or, in some cases, have fled the country with suitcases of cash, leaving behind, in one example 14M USD and a number of passports of various nationalities in the name of Zelensky himself. When the whole world suddenly, it would seem wakes up to the scope and extent of the corruption in Ukraine with Zelensky at the heart of it all, it would seem that someone in these western capitals might start to consider taking action against the very many who is the obvious culprit.
Not a bit of it.
The EU had a better idea. Rather than arrest or sanction Zelensky, in true despotic style that Joe Stalin himself would have been proud of, they sanction a Ukrainian journalist who exposed the whole racket. Diana Panchenko, often referred to as an “opposition journalist” and who is defamed by western journalist watchdogs like RSF who call her a “Russian propagandist”, found herself sanctioned by the EU for her work and was quite shocked to learn of her predicament. And yet, the fact that the EU did this, would seem like an own goal. Surely if all Panchenko did was Kremlin propaganda, and therefore her video reports from Dubai where she lives are false, then why issue this sanction? Surely there must be EU rules about journalists who go against the bloc’s narrative. A sanction seems barely a slap on the wrist and, in fact, will probably boost her credibility no end. Who came up with the idea in Brussels? The buffoon Kaja Kallas – which cruel readers might pronounce ‘kaa-kaa’ – otherwise known as the EU’s chief diplomat and who is so sensationally stupid that she is generating scores of YouTube clips about her idiotic statements, might be the culprit. Recently good ‘ol KK said in a speech that Russia had never been attacked by other countries. Yes, you read correctly.
