The British are rebelling.

Their target is their own idiot authorities, the lunatic leftists who’ve managed to get into power on the coattails of the estimable Tony Blair, who’s from the Labour Party, which attracts all kinds. They’ve gotten control of the BBC, of the city of London government, of the regulatory agencies. They are the ones who are putting out all these politically correct rulings, rulings designed to appease local Islamofascists and far-leftist lunatics eager to meddle with and remodel British life, while British voters suffer.

That’s why they are rebelling.

The Dihly Mail, a newspaper that I had always perceived as a left-leaning but Sloane Ranger-type paper read by prissy English girls in Laura Ashley dresses speaking in abnormally high flowery voices, (I got this notion from my days at Oxford), has come up with two British culture rebellions that are absolutely fascinating to watch and something we need to start duplicating in our own country and all over the world. I am amazed that these items are from the Mail. They show that the British are standing up on their hind legs against meddlesome leftist nanny-state bureaucrats who are absolutely sure they know best.

Item One: Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit found an item about how British air passengers refused to board a flight where two Islamic-looking men, acting furtively, whispering, and wearing inappropriate dark heavy leather jackets, spooked British passengers to refuse to get on the plane until something was done about it. The guys were probably innocent but they most certainly felt they could act weird and scare people as their constitutional right, even though if they had turned out to really be real terrorists, well, ‘too late, the plane’s aloft, too bad about your life, we bureaucrats just don’t care, and by the way, none of us are ever fired let alone jailed for our irresponsible but wonderfully politically correct decisions. You stupid Brits just need to accept your deaths at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Stiff upper lip, old sport, don’t you know.’ Brits rebelled. Meanwhile, Glenn points out that these rebellions happen when people no longer believe the authorities are interested in protecting them – his excellent item is here.

But there’s more:

Now the Brits are rebelling about trash collection. The fanatic environmental wackos, who are making a bundle off forcing British people to do their sorting of trash for them, have issued dozens and dozens of regulations. Combined with their union-goon allies in the trash pickup department, they are turning Britain into a pighole by forcing unreasonable trash-sorting regulations on British citizens, making them sort out zillions of items for the profiteers in the recycling business, and making the regulations so byzantine, so unworkable, so full of tiny vilolations that the union goons don’t have to pick up any trash at all. It’s a great deal for the meddlers in the environmental wacko movement, and a great deal for the union goons who no longer have to provide work for their union wages, but a terrible deal for British homeowners who must watch trash build for tiny violations on their streets (the union thugs in the trash-collection business don’t have to pick up slightly unsorted garbage or any that contains a tiny mistake of sorting), creating garbage, litter, mess, rats, roaches and maggots. Not that the environmental wackos care about that – like Venezuela’s Chavez, they like to see garbage go uncollected in middle class areas. It’s their way of doing class warfare on those whose earnings they’d like to extract from them as taxes instead. Anyway, via Lucianne, the Daily Mail‘s trash mutiny item is here.

Britain’s a strong democracy given its citizens’ lack of fear to take on petty bureaucrats. I think it’s an old British tradition, I can think of some other examples. It’s part of being British. Let’s hope they get some results, a nanny-state that actually cares about them and their needs instead of wonderful political correctness that these bureaucrats can share with each other at cocktail parties and awards ceremonies and in the halls of power.

The purpose of government is to listen to the people, not to be a forum for nasty meddling bureaucrats to top each other with demonstrations of political correctness. Either they can be in constant warfare, which will grow uglier, with their citizens, or they can start working with people and creating reasonable regulations that everyone can follow, ensuring harmony and rule of law. Right now, the nanny-staters have amassed way too much power.