20 Steps to a Conservative Dictatorship (It was The Sun Wot Did It!)
- Stitch up the opposition (LibDems)
- Make Parliament impossible to dissolve by requiring a 55% majority of MPs
- Institute fixed-term Parliaments
- Reduce the number of constituencies
- Redraw constituency boundaries to favour Tories
- Virtual control of the print media (Murdoch)
- Increasing influence in TV (Murdoch, again)
- Undermine the BBC (Murdoch, yet again)
- Non-dom funding of Tory Party machine to ensure re-election (Ashcroft)
- Non-dom funded Foreign Policy via Hague (Ashcroft, again)
- Keep the people stupid and powerless with the big society propaganda
- Impose draconian measures to quell civil unrest
- Floating prisons to house the poor and disenfranchised
- Scottish succession thwarted by military invasion
- Economically successful parts of the BBC privatised thereby leaving what’s left increasingly underfunded, including the news division
- Military rule in inner cities
- Parliament adopts emergency measures (read: autocratic)
- National funds restricted to local authorities who provide services on fee-paid basis only
- Parliament suspended
- Dictatorship declared