A place to put some quotes regarding Starmer's UK Labour government.
"White working-class people voting Labour is like turkeys voting from Christmas." - Anonymous
"A conservative gets angry when you lie, a liberal gets angry when you speak the truth!" - Anonymous
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." - Anonymous
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles" - Anonymous
"Just because you yell louder than me doesn't make you right." - Anonymous
Q: Why don't Muslim migrants go to the Middle East?
A: "They refuse to have them. Went to Egypt last year (the people in Sharm are great). Speaking to the locals about the conflict, they refuse to take in any muslim refugee for two reasons: most of them are political agitators, and all of them will contribute nothing to the country. No doctors, no teachers, no plumbers, among those trying to claim asylum. When I told them about England they just laughed and said we will be ruined within ten years."
"In Russia last year (2023) 400 people were arrested for things that they said on social media. In Britain last year 3'300 people were arrested for things that they said on social media. Which one is the more Fascist state ruled by the most Fascist rulers!?" - Anonymous
Fascism = "a tendency towards or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control" - Merriam-Webster
"Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society.[3][4] Orwell, a staunch believer in democratic socialism and member of the anti-Stalinist Left, modelled the Britain under authoritarian socialism in the novel on the Soviet Union in the era of Stalinism and on the very similar practices of both censorship and propaganda in Nazi Germany.[5] More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated." - Wikipedia
dystopian = "of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fearful lives : relating to or characteristic of a dystopia" - Merriam-Webster
1984
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" - George Orwell, 1984
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." - George Orwell, 1984
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever." - George Orwell, 1984
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell, 1984
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell, 1984
See more here:
1984 Quotes by George Orwell (goodreads.com)
