Price of protest in Britain today

George Monbiot: *Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today.*

The government labels protesters as "terrorists", which is qualitative and quantitative exaggeration of what they plan to do. The thugs seem to believe that propaganda, and treat these "conspiracies" as very dangerous. (Are they trying to increase the credibility of their exaggeration by pretending to believe it? Are thug chiefs misleading the rank and file thugs?)

The protesters' bombastic slogan, "shut down London", may have encouraged the thugs' own exaggeration, but does not excuse it. If they are fooled so easily, they are doing their job badly.

The article describes and prove that the government's policy towards protests is biased (repress the left), in accord with its politics, and traces it to the influence of lobbying.

As Labour's policies become ever more right-wing, it is losing the support of its party members, as well as the voters.

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