So, Michael Gove's plan is to ban 'extremists' from public life, those that seek to 'overturn, exploit or undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy to confer advantages or disadvantages on specific groups'.
Hmmm... given the Tories practice over the last couple of years & their palpable advantaging of the rich, one might conclude that therefore the Tories should be excluded from the UK's public political life.
Might this go very wrong for them?
#Tories #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/09/revealed-legal-fears-over-michael-gove-definition-extremism
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