Those
who do not act “voluntarily” in a particular way are made to understand that it
will be the worse for them—the old evil system, which we thought we [had] said
goodbye to with the Stuarts, of “voluntary” compliance with the wish of
government for fear of indirect consequences. Thus the citizen is coerced
without either the law being changed, or Parliament even consulted, or the
possibility of recourse to the courts of law, or public knowledge of what is
happening.
This
is essentially an arbitrary and lawless use of power, and neither the small
numbers of those directly affected nor the assumed desirability of the object
in view, ought to blind or silence us.
—EP,
Speech to Brent Young Conservatives, Wembley, 9 May 1966
Seth
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