Exposing the Great Lie (From The Northern Echo)

Exposing the Great Lie

12:02pm Tuesday 9th December 2008

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By Peter Mullen »

I HAD always thought that nationalising the banks and arresting members of the official opposition were the sorts of things that went on under Mugabe or the old Soviet Union: but now we are suffering the same oppression in Britain.

And that’s not the end of it. Last week the Home Secretary expressed her disappointment when a ruling overturned her policy of keeping the DNA of people without a criminal record on permanent government files. What has our DNA to do with the state when we’re supposedly free subjects under the Crown? Despite the severe economic crisis, the Government has no plans to cancel the incredibly expensive, practically useless and unacceptably intrusive identity cards scheme.

We are now living in a police state. Bureaucratic centralised control has reached a pitch in our country such as was not seen even in the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs, but not in the public sector of government employees. These are still in their secure, index-linked jobs with guaranteed pensions. Why is the public sector not sharing the pain of the private sector? Answer: because the public sector workers are the Government’s client state, effectively being bribed to vote Labour at the next election.

The same applies to the countless numbers on long-term benefits. I don’t mean to point the finger at the genuinely ill or disabled, but at the majority kept on benefits as a way to make the unemployment numbers look smaller than they actually are.

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.

It is as if these bigoted enthusiasts want to return us to the Dark Ages. They oppose energy production by all the means which actually work: coal, gas and nuclear, and support programmes more fanciful than Jonathan Swift’s satirical evocation for extracting moonbeams out of cucumbers.

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.

■ Peter Mullen is Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, in the City of London, and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange.

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