A good one from the X user Aja The Empress ( @AjaTheEmpress )
She’s correct here. There’s a whole lot more to fear for Britain from a left wing government than the fringe right or Reform or even the Tories even though the Tories cowardliness in the face of the Left made them impotent when presented with the threat to freedom and justice that is the British Left.
Aja The Empress said:
“Just before the last election, I said I feared a left-wing authoritarian government more than I feared the rise of the fringe far-right. And now, in 2025, our government is discussing abolishing jury trials. I can’t help but think I was right.
Because let’s be honest: this didn’t come out of nowhere. You can’t spend years normalising censorship, no-debate cultures, “misinformation” panics and public shaming rituals, and then act surprised when the state finally decides the public can’t be trusted with something as basic as justice.
It’s the same mentality we’ve seen in a hundred other places — the gender ideology movement’s cultural-revolution tactics, the swapping of arguments for accusations, and the way institutions fold the second someone screams “unsafe!” at an opinion they don’t like.
It all boils down to one belief: ordinary people cannot be trusted. Women cannot be trusted. Dissidents cannot be trusted. Anyone who isn’t obedient to the approved narrative cannot be trusted. And some of us saw this earlier than others because we lived through the consequences of speaking out. Say the wrong thing and you’re punished — socially, professionally, sometimes physically. Not because you’re wrong, but because you refuse to play along.
That’s how soft authoritarianism works: not through gulags, but through fear, smear campaigns and the quiet threat of losing everything. Look at gender ideology: violence from activists quietly brushed aside, while women defending their boundaries are framed as the danger. Speech policed. Jobs threatened.
People genuinely afraid to use the word “woman” without a lawyer on speed-dial. That’s not democracy. That’s ideological enforcement. And now we’ve reached the next logical step. If you teach an entire generation that free speech is harmful, debate is dangerous, and the public is too thick to handle “complex issues,” eventually someone suggests getting rid of jury trials — and the truly frightening part is how many people shrug.
The fringe far-right was never the real threat. They don’t control the courts, universities, media, civil service, NGOs, police or cultural institutions. They don’t have that kind of reach. But the soft-authoritarian left does — because it’s already embedded in the places where power actually sits. This is why I said ages ago that the gender ideology movement felt like a new cultural revolution. The same moral absolutism. The same compulsory slogans. The same obsession with controlling language. And inevitably, the same erosion of basic democratic norms.
So yes — when a government that calls itself “progressive” decides the public can’t be trusted with justice, it isn’t shocking. It’s the natural end-point of a worldview that’s been allowed to grow unchecked. I wasn’t dramatic. I wasn’t paranoid. I was early. And the fact we’re even talking about abolishing jury trials in 2025 proves exactly what I warned about.”