The Ongoing Assault on Democracy and Freedom Part two
KJM Today
February 24, 2025
In October 19, 2021 we offered our view on the Ongoing Assault on Democracy and Freedom. This is what we said:
'The murder last Friday of Sir David Amess MP has been reported in shock not just within the United Kingdom but around the world. There are of course, some countries where political leaders run the risk of physical harm as a matter of routine – but it doesn’t happen in the UK. Except of course it does, as both the murder of Sir David and the murder of Jo Cox MP demonstrate.
Obviously the responsible people are those who carried out the attacks but we have to look at a wider context. Social media is often blamed and online platforms do carry part of the responsibility. But it is people themselves who post offensively and other people who take as gospel the words they read. And then act upon them.
Responsibility also lies however, with MPs themselves, both by word and deed. When Angela Rayner used her now-infamous description of her political opponents as she did, did she not think there might be consequences? When governments use a health emergency to ruthlessly oppress people, does nobody stop to think of the possible results and response of previously free people?
Violence is growing everywhere and must be condemned – it is not the answer. But unless everybody restrains the rhetoric, at all levels, it will get worse before it gets better and more people will die.'
So what's changed in just over four years?
Quite a bit - and none of it for the better. Two most obvious are the elevation of Kier Starmer's Labour to government and the second is the outrageous costs of simply staying alive. But there is more.
Violence continues to grow and more people - including children - have died. Governments are indeed still not thinking about consequences, an aspect which applies to this UK government more than any other, so ideologically driven are they.
Labour do not think. They act only in the interests of controlling the population and doing what occurs to them is in their best interests. That is why their manifesto for the general election last July (2024) has been shown to be total fiction. It is also, in part, why the cost of living continues to spiral, seemingly beyond any control at all.
It is, again in part, why Starmer gallivants about the globe playing at being a world statesman. It massages his ego. The same applies to his deputy, Angela Rayner and his Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.
Along with the rest of them, none are fit for office.
Yet the Conservatives are no better, have been no better, and as yet, show little sign of the revolution needed to remove those who are patently not real Tories. The Liberal Democrats, led by their stunt-loving leader, Ed Davey are equally pointless.
In this respect nothing has changed, not one bit. Not until almost all current Members of the UK Parliament are removed, by any lawful and peaceable means possible, will there be any chance of change - no matter how many times Starmer mis-uses the word. Or for that matter how many times current Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch does.
What of Reform? The Farage-led bandwagon carries on rolling and according to those posting on social media platform X, will sweep to absolute power in 2029. That raises two immediate questions.
The first is should that happen, is there not a real danger that a government with absolute or even overarching power becomes dangerous, corrupt and just a bad as its predecessors? History shows that it is indeed so.
The second question is whether or not there will be another general election - in 2029 or at any time thereafter. This assumes that Starmer's Labour does not collapse in disarray first, which must be considered a possibility. If it does last the full term, one thing they have shown demonstrably in seven short months is that, like all oppressive movements, it will do whatever is needed to retain power.
Many will say that won't happen, not in the UK. Yet who would have predicted that governments in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (not to mention everywhere else), five countries most closely linked in history, tradition, culture and the usual way of doing things, would have so eagerly shut down their societies and blatantly oppressed their people, using health as the reason?
The answer is nobody and nobody did. But that is what happened and it could happen again.
An assault on democracy and freedom is still going on. That is the biggest danger of all.
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