Our nation may not be able to lecture others about democracy soon.
I object to the drive by Momentum to purge the Labour Party of MP’s who do not share enough values with them. I consider any plans to do so to be against the broad church ethos of the party. And the media have called such actions Stalinist (though this would actually be entrism and an act of democracy).
But we have a Prime Minister who has threatened to sack any dissenting MP’s, forcing them out of parliament come the next election. Corbyn has not done so, and while the media would be right to publicise this story, had they done so, the media seems to be less vocal about far worse actions by BoJo now.
And there is the small matter of the forced closure of Parliament. If this happened as a result of the loss of control of Parliament in Russia, Zimbabwe, Iran or the like, the UK government would be chastising them. Instead, our Prime Minister is in effect to impose direct rule, at least on Brexit, to get what he wants.
Just imagine what would happen if Jeremy Corbyn did this!
Anyway, if the suspension of Parliament does go ahead, this government will have no moral right to complain about the lack of democratic rights in Russia, Hong Kong, Iran, Venezuela, Zimbabwe etc.
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