It takes a Russian to recognise the signs: Evgeny Lebedev, owner of The Independent and the Evening Standard, has warned that the case of Nadia Eweida, the BA worker who sought to wear a cross to work, should raise alarm bells among freedom-loving Britons. The case, in which the Christian had to take her employers to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn their ban on wearing a cross to work, reminds him of the thought policing that went on in Soviet Russia.
The London-based Russian deplores the
“spirit of conformism, consensus, and political correctness which is spreading through our culture like a forest wildfire, stifling free thought, and strangling the very thing which made this country great — intellectual freedom and tolerance.”
In his article in yesterday’s Evening Standard, Lebedev urges readers :
“Please join me in the fight against it, because the country you and I love is sleepwalking into a Soviet future.”
I am beginning to feel that I no longer belong in this post ‘new-labour’ world of ours. It’s difficult to descibe, I’m 57 now, born in the 50′s, education in the 60′s & early 70′s, married in 1980, 4 grown up kids later I’m here in 2013 and I don’t like it much. There is a sense that our lives have become manipulated by an authority over which we have no control.
I know that ‘authority’ today would immediately shutdown my business actvities in the 1980′s which put food on the table and paid the mortgage – not that I broke any laws, its just that rules, regulation and more rules (EU?) were not around then.
Just an old f..t looking back with rose tinted specs – me thinks
Steve Davies
February 19, 2013 at 15:32