Congratulations, Britain–you’ve risen to the level of East Germany.

8 Responses to Congratulations, Britain–you’ve risen to the level of East Germany.

1. Mark Hubbard says:

   July 26, 2012 at 09:38

   What a stunner. I forecast this in a blog post of my own yesterday: I was just joking though. Hope you don’t mind, but I’ve updated my own post on tax havens with this, here.
   • KG says:

     July 26, 2012 at 12:36

     You’re most welcome, Mark. This is jaw-dropping totalitarian stuff but it will cause barely a ripple, I’m predicting.
     Ballot box? The damn ballot box merely legitimises creeping fascism. :rant
2. KG says:

   July 26, 2012 at 12:38

   Oh, and thank you for the link to your place and the H/T.
   • Mark Hubbard says:

     July 26, 2012 at 12:58

     You’re welcome. I’ve had you on my blogroll for a while.
3. KG says:

   July 26, 2012 at 14:22

   I didn’t realize that. I’ve returned the compliment.
4. Mark Hubbard says:

   July 26, 2012 at 14:50

   Cheers.

   And here’s what needs to be read with this Telegraph article:

   Excerpt:
   George Orwell, 1984, Book I, Chapter I.

   “Nearly all children nowadays
   were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as
   the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and
   yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline
   of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected
   with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the
   State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was
   almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own
   children.”
5. oswald bastable says:

   July 26, 2012 at 15:21

   Well- waste of time winning WW2 wasn’t it?

   Seeing as you have surrendered to the Nazi creed…
6. octagongrappler says:

   July 27, 2012 at 10:18

   Stasi …