A Very British Coup: IRL edition

[sabotabby]

BoJo has done the thing. The Queen allowed it because the monarchy is not, in fact, the progressive last defence of democracy that its advocates claim it to be.

Here's a roundup of protests.

Here is a petition that you can sign if you're in the UK.

UK friends: I love you all; good luck and solidarity.

Non-UK friends: Signal-boost for your UK followers.

Comments

[sara]

Well I can't say that I'm glad my lifelong mistrust of monarchism has proven to be entirely well-founded, not least because my lifelong belief in constitutional democracy has been pretty solidly tested at a more local level over the last few years, but. Shit.

[sabotabby]

Hence a dictatorship of the proletariat, not that it has the greatest track record either.

[notasupervillain]

Dammit I'm late to this!

I kept telling all my British friends. This happened in Canada. It was inevitable here.

[sabotabby]

So many bad ideas are initially tested in Canada. Trump was not the first populist, yellow-haired laughable bumblefuck with no regard for the rule of law—that was Rob Ford. And proroguing Parliament was a frequent tactic of the Robot Kitten-Eater. We are disregarded on the international stage but we are a laboratory for just how far the limits of liberal democracy can stretch. In this essay I will

[notasupervillain]

Wait, is that Dalton? The description suits him, but I'd not heard it before.

[sabotabby]

No, Harper. Though Dalton prorogued too, didn't he?

[notasupervillain]

I can't remember. All I remember is disliking him intensely.

[smhwpf]

We seriously need occupations and a general strike and a fucking revolution. Maybe they can still stop his evil schemes in Parliament, but it's bloody tight.

If we don't stop Johnson from forcing through No Deal, the one consolation is there'll be a fucking explosion after when people see how bad it is.

[sabotabby]

I'm not an accelerationist. When things get worse, people get used to them being shit.