Thank you for your response Jeri.
I have just read an article in the spectator on Labour's second in command. It is in a somewhat similar vein but sadly deadly serious. .It goes far beyond muting vocal opposition


https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/will-john-mcdonnell-lock-tories-up-if-labour-wins-the-next-election/

Scary stuff indeed

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
? John Milton