Anti-Emery.

In Canada, an activist, now in an American prison, called Marc Emery, is credited with ending the prohibition on Sunday trading in Ontario.

Regardless, during the 80's, the UK underwent a similar, if more official and more integrated removal of trade restraints, with the end of 'half-day early closing' and the ban on Sunday trading.

Essentially, people could live 7 days a week instead of 5 and a half, and not get caught out when milk, or tea, or food ran short.

Also the mass of people who work now had a full weekend to sort their purchasing out.

In Canada, this revolution was started by small businesses; however, I found something interesting in a major British city today.

Today is a bank holiday, another of those days when the banks are shut to the public(as they are most of the time, meaning that people who wish to visit must either go to a Saturday opening branch or take time off from work).

I was hunting trousers, Austin Reed trousers.
When I got into the city, all the small businesses were shut and deserted.
But not Austin Reed.
And there is the contrast with Canada.

In the UK, liberalisation was led by big business. In Canada by small.

And that is what happens when a coherent, top-down political change takes effect, rather than a strangled, victimised protest movement.

I guess that in Canada, the 'workers' have so many protections and guarantees from their wonderful, hand-in-hand benefactors in big business, the unions and the government, that once they get a job, they could be too precious to actually have to do anything.

I could be wrong.

Only one way to find out.

Welcome Back 1933

Do you think it's all right now?
Eighty years have passed.
Do you think they've forgotten by now?

All those millions who fought and died.

All those millions who were murdered.

Do you think it's safe for us to act without shame or irony or conscience, now that the heroes of that other age are mostly dead?

'Lest we forget.'

We've forgotten. We praise the actors, the bombers and killers; we praise the actions, the violence and the death.
We praise these because the stinking powers-that-be still have use for international murder.

But we forget the cause.

This week the bastards-that-be carried out a little experiment.

A judge ordered the compulsory sterilisation of a mentally impaired man, who could and has fathered children.
Apparently he has wit enough to charm a woman into his bed.

But the judge deemed it for his own good that he be surgically sterilised.

Welcome back to 1933; the Nazis are in their castles and busy sterilising the mentally deficient.

Sorry, heroes. This is Britain.
You fought and died in the War for nothing. They are coming out of hiding as your vigilance wanes.