Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(1).
"Members of sexual minorities, prostitutes, holders of unorthodox views, squatters, student protesters and so on can all expect rough justice."(chapter 20)
How amazing! That was written in the chapter for Justice and Politics: Trials and Errors! That view came out of the political processes throughout British history of Politics, Student protesters were put along with such respectful members of the society. Then in the following chapter there was an example of a police officer speaking to a young offender in absence of his parents...
"'You're a fucking little cunt aren't you? You've been at it again haven't you, you little bastard?... I'm going to nail your fucking hide to the wall'. (Smith and Gray 1985: 420)".
In one of the earlier chapters (15)a very meaningful comment was quoted:
"No one is qualified to criticise... unless he first hand experience of working in it. But if he has worked in it, then there is a convention that he should never speak about it thereafter expect in terms of respectful admiration. (Hoskyns 1984:4)"
I also found a little bit of poetry:
"Cabinet members are career politicians who, like Macbeth, entertain valuing ambitions of their own."
This beautiful peace of art was followed by quite logical and truthful statement:
"Charter 88 declared: No country can be considered free in which the government is above the law. No democracy can be considered safe whose freedoms are not encoded in a basic constitution."
Well, England, effectively has no written Constitution that is why I exceptionally looked into this sentence.
TBC (Politics in Britain, by John Kingdom)
