A democratic UK?
Rebecca Fricker writes about a concern
So, is this the start of a situation that ends with me being thrown out of a plane and disappeared from my son’s life?
This was, perhaps, not the most rational thought at 10pm on a Sunday evening, when hanging washing to dry, but it was enough to make me briefly consider the need to stop contacting my MP and council officials and stop using Twitter to express my political beliefs.
The cause of this anxiety was the opinion of a senior serving general, which was expressed in The Sunday Times and published on 20 September, that ‘direct action’ would be taken by the armed forces to stop a potential Jeremy Corbyn government downgrading the forces.
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