That sounds exactly like the British Government honestly. Honestly it sounds like something they'd happily allow

Seeming more and more likely it's Hue Edwards I guess

It's a pain in the arse when people make sweeping statements like that.

I see myself as an extremist, self described as on the radical far left. However I'm no way a tankie obsessed with Stalin and Mao and certainly not about to pretend genocides weren't committed.

There's certainly takeaways from Stalin and Maos and the ideology they moulded, but too quick people jump to their defences but equally any communism is instantly shot down as crazy.

Guess I'm rambling now. Basically in summary, you can be an extremist on the left that isn't authoritarian whilst still wanting everyone in society to have a fair share

Good. The state should fear it's citizens. There's no excuse for the behaviour of the police and they've been waiting to act like this since the pension protests