The low road

This is one of those stop here if you just like the pretty pictures blips ;)

I'm not a sore loser, in fact I'm one of the best losers I know – I'm just too pragmatic, I'll learn from it, I'll do better...but if one more Brexiteer tells me to “just get over it” then I want an exemption from what comes next.

I awoke today to the gutter press calling Britain's legal system wrong and undemocratic – erm, hang on – wasn't it so that we would make and follow our own laws that you voted leave, but now Judges - the very pillars of our legal system - are being called unpatrotic for protecting your legal rights. 
You definitely didn't vote leave for any jingoistic racist reasons – I know that because 'you' (not you dear Blipper) keep telling me – yet today the Sun stands accused of darkening Gina Miller's skin colour whilst labelling her as “foreign” - something I genuinely found shocking. This is someone who's contributed enormously to our country, someone fighting to protect your rights but now in the way of our press demonised. Her own words say it much better than I can;
“you can't have it both ways. You can't talk about getting back a sovereign Parliament and being in control but at the same time then bypass it - It is about any government, any prime minister, in the future being able to take away people's rights without consulting Parliament. We cannot have a democracy like that. That isn't a democracy, that is verging on dictatorship”

There's a particular path that history has shown us – and the first steps on it are when a government uses populist opinion to disregard its own rules – when it says we don't need to allow the checks of due process to apply to us any more – its not a path I ever imagined the UK could follow – now it seems many think its the right way. If a government won't or worse can't stand in front of its people and explain its actions then we all really do need to remember remember the 5th of November.


Philosophy Friday
People should not be afraid of their Governments.
Governments should be afraid of their people.
Alan Moore