They are introducing photo ID for voting, to solve a supposed problem with impersonation that doesn't exist. Which will likely reduce the number of poor, young, itinerant, migrant etc. people able to vote. Who tend to vote Labour. What a coincidence. As well as overseeing boundary changes to increase the already-existing extent to which the Tories need fewer votes than Labour to win more seats.
I don't know enough about the ID thing. The boundaries are dubious, yes.
They are steadily challenging and undermining various structures that exist to call the govt. to account and provide legal checks and balances upon them. From the electoral commission to the parliamentary standards authority.
Would like to hear more on this, please.
They are interfering with the supposed impartiality of the BBC and getting Tory donors and high supporters into key positions. They already have direct contol over most of the rest of the media, but that's not enough apparently.
Some might say the BBC was previously 'captured' by the left. I actually feel it does a fairly good job of pissing everyone off for most of the time, which is what it ought to do. Also, did they succeed in getting donors into those positions? I thought thingummy's bid had failed?
They are introducing the police crime and sentencing act to place far greater restrictions on the legal right to protest and effectively give police the right to prevent people protesting for the flimsiest of reasons.
The right to protest has been massively undermined since the Iraq war protests, millions marching and no fucking effect. Kettling and other tactics have quashed and hampered and de-toothed our right to protest already. Those were brought in under Labour. So, while I share your concern at a more authoritarian police approach, I don't thikn this is a Tory issue so much as a neo-liberal one.
They have massively abused the power of government to hand publicly funded contracts during the covid epidemic to their own mates, many with no due process of tender or monitoring of value.
Yes. This is straightforward crookery. I don't see that as fascism.
I did say "voting for the DESCENT INTO fasicsm", not that it was actually a facsist government already. But abuse of democratic process to make the government effectively dictatorial without meaningful chance of being removed; the focusing of all power in that government without a meaningful legislature to contain its excesses; government control of the media and dissemination of information; the repression of protest; not to mention the use of minorities (benefit claimants, immigrants) as targets for popular aggression to unite enough of the populace behind them - these are the absolute, classic features of fascism. They are basically the definition of the word.
I think you're mixing some tendencies of neo-liberal/late capitalist societies all up and blaming them on the Tories. I do share concerns about civil liberties and agree they need to be rigorously defended. If only we had an organisation like Amnesty or Liberty who were still actually clear-headed enough to tackle them instead of spending time telling women they are second class citizens with no right to complain.
What would you call it?
Opportunist disaster capitalism?