… remember the Criminal Justice Act 1994?
and the battle of the beanfield
and the miner’s strike
bot groups of people wanting to maintain their livelyhoods and lifestyles, had the hearts ripped out of their communities by cops and politicians.
the miner’s strike, at least, in an era when economists are looking to revive the coal industry, when the damage done to the social capital of pit communities is widely regretted, and when the thuggish police tactics seen in those times are now universally deprecated, was undeniably legalised state violence at the command of those at the top of the conservative party (many of whom still hold shadow cabinet positions)
for those too young to remember, the tories also brought in the Poll Tax; if you were, for example a labourer, you paid the same amount of tax as a multi-billionaire (the actual same amounti.e. the same number of £s regardless of your income). the very rich got richer while everybody else struggled to feed themselves. it brought this country closer to civil war than any time in the last 450 years. if you’re thinking of voting tory, think about that.
if this all sounds far-fetched for a recent britain, look on the internet, or in history books… these are some of the reasons why labour won a total landslide victory in the genral election 10 years ago
