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A grim forecast for the UK under the Tories

Here.  The threat in England is actually worse than than in the US under Trump:  without a federal system, the check on centralized power is much less (contrast the U.S., where more than 100 million people live in solidly Democratic, anti-Trump states, with all branches of state government aligned against the Trump agenda); the universities (and even much of the major media) are still largely hostage to the public purse, and thus the malign plans of Tory bureaucrats; and the "unwritten Constitution" (combined with the supremacy of parliament in constituitional matters) depends far-too-heavily on informal norms of restraint by the legislative and executive branches which will be non-existent under Boris Johnson's regime.  

Bad times.

(Thanks to S. Wallerstein for the pointer.)

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