James King
Charlie StrossHaving lived through Jack Straw and David Blunkett's terms as Home Secretary I had no particular optimism that Starmer's pick would be any better, but Mahmood is knocking the authoritarianism right out of the ball park: seems to have calibrated her jackboots against those worn by Patel and Braverman.
Luke@cstross I expect some of this is so institutionalised within the home office now that really clear leadership would be required to change things - even with a more benevolent administration (which this one isn’t)…
Martin Gleadow@cstross wherever Home Secretary School is, it needs to be shut down by Ofsted as inadequate
Ebly Pamplemousse
robcorneliusThey know what they are doing.... ushering in fascism. Not by the back door either.
The Labour Party's unstated aim is to become the fascist leadership of the UK. They don't want old fashioned fascists like Fartage having that power. Not because they want to stop him per se. They can see the unlimited power and personal wealth fascism will bring them. They don't want to share it with anyone.
@robcornelius I think you attribute far too much planning ability to Labour. (I think they're basically shit-scared. The Tories all but crashed the country and left Labour to rebuild the wreckage, and they have no idea how to do that because they last tackled that job in 1997. The current mob are next-generation political cosplayers, much like Cameron et al were next-generation Thatcher imitators. They're kids, more interested in image than substance until suddenly they're expected to perform.)
Chris Goss@cstross @robcornelius Raised in universties where neoliberalism is taught as fact rather than a self serving theory. The fact that that it has been thoroughly debunked is ignored
Outpatientzero 🍉 🇺🇦@cstross @robcornelius you may be partly right, but on protest and genocide, the Labour Party is clearly a party of neo-fascists, at least at the parliamentary and leadership level.
MidgePhoto@cstross @robcornelius
Several of the current lot were ministers or cabinet ministers in the previous labour government, and I think a few more were PPS or SpAds.
It is entirely possible to object to the proscription of one organisation; to object to genocide; to demand a specific action.
The judge granting proscription said that, in terms.
So who has driven this specific and deliberate assault on the law and the government?
And whose aims do they further by it?
Not humanitarian ones.
MelHamnavoe@cstross The last decent Home Secretary was Roy Jenkins.
Jeztastic@cstross The Labour drift to the right started in their era. The policy to remove right to food and accommodation for legal asylum seekers who didn't claim asylum in the first country they passed through for example. Essentially making people completely destitute, this was under Blunkett IIRC.