UK - Tories Indicate Turn Away from Democracy and to Authoritarianism.

Summary of story from The Guardian

A Conservative MP has said anyone using the term “white privilege” should be reported to the government’s counter-terror programme, and that teachers who criticise the Conservative party should be sacked.

Jonathan Gullis told a fringe meeting during the party’s conference in Manchester last week that anyone using the phrase should be referred to the government’s Prevent programme, which is used to track potential terrorists.

Gullis was speaking at an event organised by the Conservative Friends of Education group. He added:

“I hope [using the term white privilege] will be reported, I hope that will be looked into, and any teacher who’s perpetuated it in the classroom ultimately should face a disciplinary hearing at the very least.”

The Prevent programme was set up in 2006 to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, and to clamp down on radicalisation.

During the same event, the 31-year-old MP said that teachers should be “sacked” if they criticise the Conservatives. He was elected to the Commons in 2019 for Stoke-on-Trent North.

“It’s absolutely disgusting, we need to start sacking people who are pushing their political ideology.” [Though, apparently, only for criticising Tories.]

Full story at The Guardian