MICHAEL Gove, better known as The Government, has redefined extremism so he can ban any political group he dislikes, including the Tories, on the following grounds:
‘Undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy’
Does prorogation in August 2019 ring any f**king bells, Michael? No? Gove was there, chancelling the Duchy of Lancaster, as the Johnson administration decided to sidestep inconvenient Brexit scrutiny by suspending parliament until the EU deadline had passed. The Supreme Court ruled it had an ‘extreme’ effect on the ‘fundamentals of democracy’. Sound familiar?
Invoking Article 50, October 2016
Then perhaps Gove recalls a few years earlier, as justice minister under a different failure of a prime minister, attempting to trigger Article 50 without the annoying involvement of parliament. That went to court too. You lost then, too. Remember? The paper your vile ex-wife works for called the judges ‘enemies of the people’?
‘The promotion or advancement of an ideology based on hatred or intolerance’
Then there are the general elections of May 2017 and December 2019. Staying with the Mail, it announced 2017’s election with the headline ‘Crush the saboteurs’ which is trés Soviet Russia. Bloody House of Lords. Bloody Remoaners making up half the electorate. You hated those bastards, didn’t you, standing in the way of your big Brexit win? Were you, perhaps, intolerant of their views?
Suella Braverman, 2018-2022
Perhaps Mr Gove remembers this former colleague and the loathing that twisted her face whenever confronting cultural Marxists, an academic term which she used to mean ‘those f**king bastards’. She invited far-right groups to come and have a go at pro-Palestine protestors despite the police being very much against that. Because of hatred.
‘Aiming to negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others’
What half the Conservative party is doing, currently. The rights given by the European Convention on Human Rights are ours, yes? As humans, much as you want us reclassified as ‘active economic units’? And you’re planning to ‘negate or destroy’ them by taking us out of it for your Rwanda plan? Because the Tories are more extreme than a BMX rider doing a fakie front flip over a shades-wearing shark?
New definition of extremism, March 2024
As warned by three former Tory home secretaries, one of them a proper headbanger, and a group of senior counter-terrorism experts, unilaterally redefining extremism stamps all over the right to free speech. Still, can’t we trust that Michael Gove knows best? After all, he’s the one man involved in everything the government’s done for 14 years.
