Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state Britain is much closer to tyranny than you think. Consider a recent social post by Zia Yusuf, one of Reform UK’s leading figures. “Recent events demonstrate why I view the Tory and Labour politicians who created the burning injustice of modern Britain as traitors to their country,” he wrote. “A reckoning is coming.” He didn’t define those “recent events”, or what his reck
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state
Britain is much closer to tyranny than you think. Consider a recent social post by Zia Yusuf, one of Reform UK’s leading figures. “Recent events demonstrate why I view the Tory and Labour politicians who created the burning injustice of modern Britain as traitors to their country,” he wrote. “A reckoning is coming.”
He didn’t define those “recent events”, or what his reckoning would entail, but historically speaking, those deemed “traitors to their country” do not fare well.
Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
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