THE United Kingdom (as it was once known) is falling rapidly into a chilling totalitarian nightmare of a Orwellian kind with English literature now being targeted by Keir Starmer’s Labor Party bureaucrats as “potential triggers for right-wing extremism”.
Authors including George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis have been flagged by an “anti-terrorism unit” in the U.K Home Office, according to conservative author and commentator Douglas Murray.
He says the list has been compiled by the so-called Prevent Research Information and Communications Unit. Writing in The Spectator, Murray says other authors whose work is allegedly shared by people sympathetic with “the far-right and Brexit” also reportedly include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Adam Smith and even William Shakespeare.
In 2011, the UK introduced the “Prevent duty” as a component of its broader counter-terrorism approach, which is known as “Contest.” Its primary objective is to employ preventative measures to decrease the risk of terrorist threats, which encompasses the prevention of individuals from being enticed into terrorist activities, according to its guidance.
Ulster Unionist Party councillor John Kyle slammed the list, according to Northern Irish outlet News Letter. “I know that communist and totalitarian regimes have viewed Christianity as dangerously subversive, but when the British Government labels C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books a terrorist threat its counter-terrorism unit has lost touch with reality,” he said.
This and other outrages perpetrated by the UK establishment has promped Britain’s biggest-ever petition with more than 2 million people calling for a new UK election. Starmer’s Labor government, like Australia’s, is a minority government, not in seats but in the number of people who voted Labor at the last election.
But Starmer is several steps ahead of Australia on the totalitrian path. His government has already jailed people for posting allegedly racist and violent “hate speech” on the internet. Australia has not yet compiled a list of “subversive” books.
Murray, who first reported on the list, said his own 2017 book “The Strange Death of Europe” was also flagged. He told Fox News Digital that the list “is a sign that the people advising the government have completely lost their way.”
“This is quite typical that you set something up in government to deal with one issue, and it ends up spreading its remit until its remit is so broad that it includes the mainstream texts of the culture,” said Murray, who noted Prevent was first established to combat Islamic extremism but has since shifted its focus.
“It’s exceptionally self-immolating, all because they can’t deal with the one thing they were set up to address at the beginning,” he said.
Apart from censoring literature, UK police are now taking a heavy-handed approach to controlling everyday behaviour from shopping to public gospel preaching. In recent cases a preacher was threatened with a night in the cell by a “girl boss” police officer.
In Manchester, police, using the excuse of keeping public order, exercised blatant racism by denying entry to a shopping centre by young people they identified as travellers aka Romani gypsies who have lived in the UK since the 16th Century. When one of them argued the cops brutally assaulted him.
The double standards are becoming the norm under a regime of constant psychological warfare by mocking and oppressing ethnic English people and their traditions. One such example is police officers appearing in uniform in public with homosexual “human pups” on leashes.