Last night’s television news included a report
on the mass detention of Uighurs in China and showed a group of adults being coerced
into chanting the official party line as part of their re-education. Most of us
will find it disconcerting that this can really be happening, but if we look
closer to home, we find that locking adults into a room and forcing them to
chant lies isn’t something confined to a dictatorial regime like that in China –
it’s now part of everyday
business for government in the UK as well.
Perhaps the Cabinet saw it all as just
a bit of fun for the camera but reciting what they all know to be lies is not a
good look. The cabinet, like the poor
Uighurs, certainly know what the ‘right’ answer is when questioned by those in
authority over them; whether people bullied into giving the ‘right’ answer
believe it or not is another matter entirely.
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