Never take democracy for granted

I don’t wish to appear overly dramatic but I have a lurking suspicion that if we in Britain, but more pertinently the American public, are not careful, both nations could quite speedily find themselves in a form of dictatorship. It is not so pressing in Britain, the threat is there, but in the US it could be quite imminent. In both the USA and Britain we are witnessing hard right politicians deliberately waging open war against their own state and civil service because what the civil servants are saying is opposed to the government narrative. Does this not strike you as eerily familiar? The 45 and its supporters in Congress have declared open warfare on the FBI and the Department of Justice, that is, against the very people appointed by the 45 itself, but more importantly, against the very institutions tasked with guarding and upholding the rule of law. Both the Republican Party and the hard right Brexiteers in Britain are now openly ignoring and indeed flaunting, the norms and values, customs and practices that bind the political and governmental systems of our respective nations. They are deliberately refusing to exercise the self-control necessary for efficient governance and refusing to accept the institutional controls imposed by their own political systems and are therefore, in effect, out of control. There will be one narrative and that narrative will be accepted as the truth, regardless of its reality. The Republican position is that the 45 must be protected and saved, even from his own stupidity, and if necessary, criminality, for their own self-interest, regardless of the effects on America and its people. Opposition must be, and will be, discredited and demonised. It is only a question of time until all opposition is forcibly suppressed. In both our nations it is therefore incumbent on the electorate to enforce control and to exercise our democratic rights and imperatives to demand that the political class respect the oaths of office they so mendaciously swore to on election.

There is a similar trend developing in Britain, although it is, as yet, only in its infancy. I warned you some time ago about the sinister creature that is Jacob Rees Mogg. He has taken on the mantle in this country assumed by Devin Nunes in the US in being prepared to say anything necessary to discredit any facts, evidence or personnel who have the temerity to challenge their narrative, regardless of how accurate or honest such facts, evidence or personnel are. In Britain, Mogg raised a conspiracy theory in Parliament by which he claimed that civil servants may be secretly distorting evidence to “influence” the Government to stay in the EU customs union. He planted a question in the Commons to the Brexit minister Steven Baker who claimed that the head of The Centre for European Reform, Charles Grant, told him that “officials in the Treasury have deliberately developed a model to show that all options other than staying in the customs union were bad and that officials intended to use this to influence policy”. In other words, Mogg was openly accusing the civil service of conspiracy and Baker was happy to support this position. This was immediately flatly denied by Charles Grant and his version was supported by another Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach, who had also been at the meeting where Baker alleged this had been said. Thus, the right-wings in both Britain and the USA have abandoned any pretence at veracity and have adopted the Goebbels strategy that if you are going to tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often.

The method and practice of the right in Britain are having a very disturbing effect and it is escalating. They have abandoned any pretence at morality and ethical behaviour and this is percolating down into society with like-minded right-wingers being emboldened and becoming more active. Today a jury took less than an hour to convict Darren Osborne of murder after he drove a van into a group of Muslims outside the Finsbury Park mosque. His defence would be amusing were it not so shocking in that he claimed that he was not guilty, that it was someone else who was driving as his mission was to kill the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. The Finsbury Park attack followed the assassination of the Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016 by Thomas Mair, a rightwing extremist, who shot Ms Cox three times before stabbing her fifteen times, all the while shouting “This is for Britain”, “keep Britain independent”, and “Britain first” The British press reported that prosecutors acknowledge privately that the febrile atmosphere in which the EU referendum campaign was waged appears certain to have contributed to Mair’s decision to murder his MP, but this played no part in their case. There was no need to refer to the referendum in order to establish his guilt and so it was left to people like the Kommirat to make this known to you.

All the British press, even the Daily Heil, who are more than anyone responsible for inflaming hatred and violence are reporting an alarming rise in hate crimes. Antisemitism hate crimes are escalating rapidly. The Heil is of course openly fascist and literally hate everyone, but they are now openly dangerous. We are seeing the result of the lies and propaganda of the EU referendum and the hatred and demonization of foreigners, immigrants, Muslims and Jews fostered by Farage, the right-wing of the Tory Party, the Mail, Express etc. Today we had the 45 at it again as he claimed that his State of the Union address was watched by “the highest number in history” despite the fact that it was nowhere near that. It takes a special kind of mentality to make public claims like that knowing that they are barefaced lies that can be discredited almost immediately. What is worse is that people know that he is a pathological liar, a bully, a racist and a misogynist, but still support him and vote for him. We have the same phenomenon in this midden with The Spider and his cohorts, who everyone now concedes what I told you years ago, that he is an imbecile, who, rather than being ‘very intelligent’ is a blowhard who knows very little. I end by reminding you that the health and stability of states and political communities are dependent on justice and a respect for the laws, norms and values of the political and social system. In our two societies, it is the personnel we have elected to guard and protect those norms and values that are wilfully destroying them. You get what you vote for. You have been warned

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat