Where England is heading in 2006

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2006)

Everyone in the Labour party should watch this film, just as everyone in the UK and the civilised world should see it. It isn't the best film in the world and it is V for Verbose, but as Pastor Martin Niemöller said of the Nazi's
" In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me  and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Alan Moore originally conceived this as an attack on Thatcherism and I am sure that the Labour party back in the early 80's read the book and chuckled and thought " This'll stick it to that Thatcher b***h "
How the worm has turned; ID cards, CCTV everywhere, our human rights quashed in the name of "FREEDOM" and "ANTI-TERRORISM", Spin doctors running the country.... It really is an eye opener, and chilled me to the bone. We accept higher taxes, more censorship, less freedom, heavy handed policing, religious intolerance, political correctness, and the nanny-state because "THEY ARE LOOKING OUT FOR US" - Please everyone, open your eyes and see where we are heading. Hail Chancellor Blair?
Phew...that's the rant over with. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it was nice to see the shops at the back of my road used for the set (where was I that day ???). This is intelligent fare although a few liberties have been taken with the original concept but, hey, that's the movies for you - if we stuck to the script, we'd get Pink Panther the Remake ( Insert noise of Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes here ! )
P.S. Nice to hear a seldom used Rolling Stones track at the end.
Pickles