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Our country is a centralised totalitarian bureaucracy – priest

The Rev. Dr. Peter Mullen is Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, in the City of London, and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange, and has already courted much controversy with his outspoken but witty attack on homosexuals and Muslims as well as female priests. However this has not prevented the Northern Echo from continuing to employ him as a columnist where his writing is very thought provoking, astute, incisive, and quite libertarian in view.

His latest column for the Northern Echo expresses the view that we have become a centralised totalitarian bureaucracy, I may not share all of his views on many things, but his assessment of the nation’s political ills are fairly close to some of my beliefs and I think they deserve a wider audience.

In a centralised totalitarian bureaucracy such as the Soviet Union was, and such as our country now is, the government intrudes into and tries to control the whole of citizens’ private lives. Injunctions come thick and fast as to what and how much anyone should eat or drink. Doctors are paid a capitation fee to subject as many members of the public as possible to all kinds of medical tests. We have government by slogans and a fatuous “new initiative” every week. Big Brother is watching you, as your every public action is captured by surveillance cameras Insane obsessions are the rule. Soon we shall hear of someone jailed for putting his rubbish into the wrong recycling bag. All over the country the landscape is being defaced by the erection of useless wind turbines. There is a vast and strident Green movement which is very largely a cloak for subversive leftwingery.

Always in a totalitarian regime there is an underlying myth, a Great Lie. In the days of the Soviets this was the doctrine of the revolution which would lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat and the eternal happiness of the pure communist republic. Of course, it was all hokum, the opiate of the lumpen intelligentsia.

Why, now that we have seen the end of the evil Soviet empire, are we so keen to build up something similar in Britain? And of course, our Great Lie is the monstrous superstition of global warming. This is forever promoted by the Government because it gives them opportunity to impose yet more restrictions on our freedom.

We may have to wait a while, but Brown and his cronies will one day go the way of the Soviet politburo.

Perhaps he’s a member of the Libertarian Party, if not, then perhaps he ought to be, he preaches in the same manner and tone as Cranmer, and is not afraid to expound his views regardless of the criticisms and anguished cries from the left. Expect to hear some more shortly.

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