Are we heading for a totalitarian state?

We may choose to place great weight on the liberty of the individual believing it to be a good thing that people choose to live their lives as they see fit within the law. 

You may order as you please from the menu as long as you are willing to settle the bill.

Individual liberty also serves as an effective barrier against any prospective state tyranny.

It stands to reason therefore that the more the state demands from us the less liberty we have.

So, when the state tells us what to think we are potentially in real trouble.

A healthy academic environment allows us to think whatever we like and await a critique from those who disagree.

We can worship any god, follow any religion, choose whom we wish to mix with and whom we wish to avoid, belong to any group with whom we wish to identify and stay away from those we do not.

It is called freedom.

Yet the current Conservative Government in no sense supports the above. Strangely many of their supporters think that they do.

The state "educates" our children, looks after us when we are sick, employs about one person in six, provides income to about one third of the population (excluding state pensions) and if you pay attention to the mainstream media is responsible for solving every social problem in existence.

No wonder we do as we are told and think as the state demands.

The original intentions may have been honourable, but the outcome is profoundly sinister.

UK Independence Party has always believed that nobody knows our interests better than ourselves and that the state should only, therefore, do those things which individuals cannot or must not do.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state? It is just a matter of time!

Donald MacKay

UK Independence Party-Spokesman for Culture and Wokeness