Readers of AngloAustria are probably aware that Britain is already pounding down the nightmare boulevard of Hayek's Road to Serfdom. However, it became particularly evident this week when Mayor Red Ken of London proposed a £25 pound daily charge for anyone driving a car disapproved of by the majority.
I won't bore you with a rant about this, as it's far too much like preaching to the converted, but what I found far more disturbing than this typical piece of majoritarian tyranny, was the reaction of Daily Torygraph readers. Unless hordes of socialists are primed to respond to any reaction piece in the Torygraph, it would seem the majority of even Daily Telegraph readers agree with Red Ken's hounding of disliked minorities, on the spurious grounds of catastrophic climate change, or whatever bug-bear it is this week that the Left have attached themselves to.
One immediately imagines, of course, a self-righteous Guardian-reading London businessman taking a taxi to Heathrow and then a quick flight to Edinburgh to smooth over a property deal, before flying home again in the same day, getting self-righteously angry about CO2-producing people driving 4x4s around London; planes and taxis, naturally, producing nothing more than flowers and smiles. Yes, there are stupid people everywhere. However, it is now becoming acceptable for majorities to persecute minorities, even to usually freedom-loving Torygraph readers.
"Tax them more," some of the readers were saying. "Ban them completely," said others.
No doubt these readers will be equally pleased when their little pleasures in life are removed. They will call out and nobody will hear them and they will have no-one to blame but themselves.
So another national socialist click tightens in the ratchet...
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And yet this, supposedly from Red Ken (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5179232.stm):
He joked: "Having been to Singapore and seen how successful it was I think anything short of a fully independent city state is a lost opportunity, with its own foreign and defence policies thrown in."
Golly. That's a turnaround. Now if we can just convince him to take that down the the individual level...Who'd have thought it - Red Ken, anarchist. ;-)
So does this mean London is going to secede from the UK? Would it be set adrift in the cold grey waters of the North Sea, avoiding knocking a chunk off Kent or Southend on it's way out? And with it's own defence services to boot (well, presumably jack boot in his case and with the pointy ends turned inwards).
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