Non-UK people think England/Britain/Great Britain/UK is the crucible of democracy and freedom, freedom of speech.
Nothing further from the truth. Americans especially seem to think UK is Hollywood and Robin Hood in medieval times. Americans adore the whole Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, kings and queens, mother of parliament stuff.
UK is the most surveilled, least law as law, lawful country in the world. 'Law' in UK is 100% politics - who has the biggest bank balance, the roundest vowels, and ultimately, the biggest stick - 'Don't you know who I f#cking am, pleb' - the infamous address of the Tory MP to a woodentop in Downing St.
Try that as an actual pleb, with a 2022 UK robocop - taser, pepper spray, possible firearm, cudgel stick - telescopic baton - etc, etc, with his/her mates arriving mob-handed to protect the poor, little police person, if the nasty pleb, "citizen", looks so much as sideways at them.
Dixon of Dock Green existed. Plod knew their place - one rung off the bottom of society. They were almost all thick as pig manure, but strong in arm - min. 5'10" - but cruucially, they knew they were just low-rank muscle, with very little power. If you wanted to go above the lowly rank of sergeant, you had to join the funny handshake club - freemasons. Chief constables looked down on the rank and file as dirt.
Ordinary plod, back then, pre-1980, knew they were just uniformed thugs, scum, but also were often quite decent, as they understood their role, place in the order of things - free accommodation, the police houses, no need to buy work clothes, pay in line with semi-skilled workers, retire after 30 years, on a pension that should keep you in ale and fish and chips, and buy you a plot in the church yard.
Our friend Thatcher, paramilitarised the Police. She turned them into arrogant thugs, to literally beat the lower orders. Orgreave, 1984 - how ironic - was the end of the organised working class, and effectively any resistance to the rapacious scum that always ruled/owned England UK, and their henchmen became, openly, the now very well paid thugs in black, basically military garments, Plod of today.
The British people let this happen , cheered it all on - 'F Scargill, F the miners', F the unions'.
F'ing stupid muppets never thought if they'll do this to skilled, decent working people - miner, printers, etc - they'll have no bother cracking skulls with almost any of us.
Too late, the genie went out of the bottle 40 years ago. Young, under 30 yrs old, Plod now think they're untouchable, above, beyond the joke 'law'. They are the law, for the average schmuck pleb.
PS to show you just what a world-class joke UK plod are, the until last week head of UK plod, Dick of the Yard, the lesbian Cressida, was the one who gave the order to assassinate, murder, the Brazilian guy on the Tube in 2006, Operation Kratos - or Cretin, for this evil, butch bitch.
Instead of being summarily dismissed, and immediately arrested for homicide, for the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, she was promoted and promoted, to rub people's noses in it - 'WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW - WE ARE THE LAW - WE CAN KILL You, ANYONE, AND GET AWAY WITH IT. GET MEDIALS, PROMOTIONS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?'.
Nothing further from the truth. Americans especially seem to think UK is Hollywood and Robin Hood in medieval times. Americans adore the whole Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, kings and queens, mother of parliament stuff.
UK is the most surveilled, least law as law, lawful country in the world. 'Law' in UK is 100% politics - who has the biggest bank balance, the roundest vowels, and ultimately, the biggest stick - 'Don't you know who I f#cking am, pleb' - the infamous address of the Tory MP to a woodentop in Downing St.
Try that as an actual pleb, with a 2022 UK robocop - taser, pepper spray, possible firearm, cudgel stick - telescopic baton - etc, etc, with his/her mates arriving mob-handed to protect the poor, little police person, if the nasty pleb, "citizen", looks so much as sideways at them.
Dixon of Dock Green existed. Plod knew their place - one rung off the bottom of society. They were almost all thick as pig manure, but strong in arm - min. 5'10" - but cruucially, they knew they were just low-rank muscle, with very little power. If you wanted to go above the lowly rank of sergeant, you had to join the funny handshake club - freemasons. Chief constables looked down on the rank and file as dirt.
Ordinary plod, back then, pre-1980, knew they were just uniformed thugs, scum, but also were often quite decent, as they understood their role, place in the order of things - free accommodation, the police houses, no need to buy work clothes, pay in line with semi-skilled workers, retire after 30 years, on a pension that should keep you in ale and fish and chips, and buy you a plot in the church yard.
Our friend Thatcher, paramilitarised the Police. She turned them into arrogant thugs, to literally beat the lower orders. Orgreave, 1984 - how ironic - was the end of the organised working class, and effectively any resistance to the rapacious scum that always ruled/owned England UK, and their henchmen became, openly, the now very well paid thugs in black, basically military garments, Plod of today.
The British people let this happen , cheered it all on - 'F Scargill, F the miners', F the unions'.
F'ing stupid muppets never thought if they'll do this to skilled, decent working people - miner, printers, etc - they'll have no bother cracking skulls with almost any of us.
Too late, the genie went out of the bottle 40 years ago. Young, under 30 yrs old, Plod now think they're untouchable, above, beyond the joke 'law'. They are the law, for the average schmuck pleb.
PS to show you just what a world-class joke UK plod are, the until last week head of UK plod, Dick of the Yard, the lesbian Cressida, was the one who gave the order to assassinate, murder, the Brazilian guy on the Tube in 2006, Operation Kratos - or Cretin, for this evil, butch bitch.
Instead of being summarily dismissed, and immediately arrested for homicide, for the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, she was promoted and promoted, to rub people's noses in it - 'WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW - WE ARE THE LAW - WE CAN KILL You, ANYONE, AND GET AWAY WITH IT. GET MEDIALS, PROMOTIONS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?'.
