My linkspam in politics (cn: Tories)

[kaberett]

• The new DWP minister wants to bring back capital punishment [Indy]
  
• The new Equalities minister voted against same-sex marriage and gives no indication of having changed her position [PinkNews]
  
• The new minister for disabled people is strongly against disability benefits and human rights [Benefits&Work]
  
• "Limit the reach of human rights cases to the UK, so that British Armed forces overseas are not subject to persistent human rights claims that undermine their ability to do their job and keep us safe." [Conservative policy on Human Rights, which is horrifying in its entirety.]
  
• ""For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'," [David Cameron] will say." [BBC, the Graun]

Comments

[untonuggan]

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone

dear governments everywhere,

George Orwell wrote dystopias, not how-to books. Please revise your policies.

In addition, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was an example of "what not to do"; please avoid replicating those conditions also.

Sincerely,
Citizens not consumers