Aceticon , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe including the UK and the idea that the system in Britain is generally humane is pretty naive.

The Justice System in Britain is to a very large extent a tool to Keep People In Their Proper Place and like the Political system and other Power systems over there, the end result of uninterrupted centuries of maybe the most classist mindset in the whole of Europe and one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the continent.

Absolutelly, if you are wealthy or well connected the system will be very “humane” for you and if you’re Middle Class you’ll probably be alright. Poor people … well … as long as they only harm other poor people (or foreigners) they might be alright (hence the phenomenon of Hooliganism), otherwise the book will be thrown at them.

There really is quite the extraordinary “some people are inherently superior to other people” mindset going on in there and that’s reflected in the uneveness of the treatment given to people by the Justice System and the exceedingly cold and extremelly punitive sentencing reserved for “lesser” people.

The style of violence of the various British Power Systems reflects the style of violence of the Posh Elites: nothing so crude as physical violence involving guns, rather complex rule structures designed with enough flexibility to on one side let the “right people” through and on the other crush the “wrong people” in their machinery, as well as goon-like police force compose of people from a working class background who see themselves as above the common working class and can thus often behave with that very special kind of cruel obedience found in those who both think they’re now better than the place from where they came, yet fear they might fall back if they don’t execute their orders with gusto.