In order to pacify Stonewall and its followers outraged by this apparent new outbreak of Labour flip-flopping, Labour has made two very significant, but less publicised, promises.
Its sponsors wants bosses to be held responsible and punished for things over which they have self-evidently no control.
The aim is that we become psychologically attuned to only one socially and legally acceptable set of positions. This is the left’s new road to serfdom.
When will the Conservative Party actually stand up and fight for the values of the open society? If it refuses to do so, what is its point exactly?
It opens doors for those who perceive themselves as tall when short, thin when fat, young when old – maybe as members of other species entirely.
These powers, like all the existing laws relating to so called ‘hate speech’, will always be deployed in a politically asymmetrical way.
At the time of writing, it has not responded to two questions I have put about whether it endorses BLM the organisation and accepts Critical Race Theory.
It is an ideology which views people as collections of abstract categories rather than individuals, and finds fashionable new forms for Jewphobic tropes.
The law he favours would create ‘special administrative units’ to monitor those suspected of holding intolerant views. Who will sit on these surveillance operations?
Indeed, its stagnant centralism and bureaucracy is more likely to inflame extremism and violence than prevent them.
I contend that we are now in the early stages of a journey towards a post-democratic future. The philosophical foundations that once sustained our citizenship rights are decaying as fast as RAAC concrete.