The simple truth is that individuals can be free to choose between what they consider as right or wrong only where they are economically independent of the government. As in all dictatorships, freedom, at best, is severely curtailed, and at worst, ceases to exist. Freedom has officially been declared Slavery. George Orwell was right, and we should have listened. The idea that prosperity correlates with freedom is one that must have occurred to the minds of all freedom loving people.
Democracy needs positive limits.
That's why it was linked with freedom in the Charter.