Finally, of course, I did not tell Joe what to think. I quoted a section of the manifesto and asked him to decide how an actual fascist leader would regard it.
That is what your opening comment to Joe said, but you then did a summary: A remit to alter all the checks and balances in favour of the Government? That is not what I would call centrist.

As I explained, it is not a remit to alter all checks and balances in favour of the Government, but I can see how a paranoid might read it that way.