It is instructive to see Rees-Moggs, Lilico, and others who have pompously insisted on the supremacy of British institutions for YEARS, turn in an instant to attacking those institutions the moment they stand in the way of their ideological obsession.
Courts, rule of law, Parliament, democracy itself must all give way to their will. I don’t doubt for a minute that if they could they would pack the courts as much as the Polish government has, and squeeze civil society as much as the Hungarian government has.
British people appear to think authoritarian nationalism only happens in countries where people have lots of Zs in their surnames. Time to wake up.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 25 September 2019. View the original thread.