Gordon Brown’s Banana Republic Britain

November 11, 2007 · Filed Under News, Politics, Welcome To Great Britain 

As “Great” Britain slips helter-skelter down the league table of democratic nations and rises like a star on the list of basket-case countries led by maniacs, Gordon Brown continues to fiddle with his broken “moral compass” until the needle is bent and buckled and his government will never find its way to a safe haven with the electorate, until they are chucked out and given a good kicking.

Brown should have called the election in the Autumn and lost with some small, sustainable dignity.

Henry Porter in The Guardian has this:

A great battle is about to be waged. Its significance, both internationally and for the whole direction and tone of British politics, cannot be exaggerated. The issue is the government’s plan to increase detention without charge to as much as 56 days, although Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, refuses at every opportunity to give us a precise number of days. At stake is nothing less than the rule of law and the honour of the nation.

If MPs reject the unspecified increase, it will be a great victory against the trends of the last six years, a sign that Britain has at last regained its respect for the rule of law and has turned its back on an era when rendition and Guantanamo were ignored and the legal advice to go to war was manipulated.

When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the maximum period a person could be held without charge was two days. Now the government wants two months. This contains the whole story of the Labour government’s descent from a body that respected the rule of law to a class of discreditable, power-crazed hysterics.

The joke, of course, is to pretend that Britain is a country which has the honour or conscience to uphold the rule of law or to pursue a correct moral path. That is the hysterically funny bit.

The guiding influence of this government (and any other political party which finds itself exercising power) is simply to make money for yourself and your mates and abuse the power you have until time runs out and you get rumbled.

The difference is that in the past, this has been pursued as a matter of expediency: get away with what you can for as long as you can. What Brown’s New Labour wants to do is enshrine the non-culpability of government and the non-rights of citizens into a legal framework from which the one cannot be extracted and the other cannot be protected.

From Gordon Brown’s point of view, the good thing is that although everyone knows what he is up to, nobody is going to do anything to stop him. The government will obfuscate and the media and the people will turn a blind eye until it is too late.

The problem with this, is that when people understand what they have allowed to happen, there will be blood on the streets. Thus, we enter the next phase of the proud tradition of banana republics, with civil unrest, coups and mass detention without trial, coupled with media censorship and the forever tomporary withdrawal of fundamental human rights.

Welcome to Gordon Brown’s Brave New Britain. The best bet is to jump ship while you can and help solve the pretended immigration crisis.

As MediaFalseFlag comments on the article:

56 Day local Custody…..56 year Global Surveillance?

‘You can suspect some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but why not suspect ALL of the people ALL of the time?’ asked the control freak statist

‘How do you mean,’ asked the mushroom

‘Well you could take everyone’s DNA and keep it on record even if they had not committed any crime’ said the control freak statist

‘Really,’ asked the mushroom

‘Then you could put CCTV cameras everywhere’ said the CFS, ‘and get people used to them by making ‘cool’ TV programs about them…. people will have them in their house soon!’

‘I see’ said the mushroom

‘And then you could listen to everyone’s phone calls, collect all their internet records and use wifi and phone grids as tracking devices too’ said the CFS

‘Isn’t that like a prison state?’ asked the libertarian

‘More like a prison planet’ interjected the mushroom

‘I thought you were a fun guy’ said the CFS

Welcome to New Britain. Please stand up Fun Guy Gordon. Take a bow.

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