flap those lips, you Brits

Sir Alan West, Britain’s new security minister, redefines Britishness for the 21st century:

“Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. “I’m afraid, in this situation, anyone who’s got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life.”

It will be interesting to see how a “start snitching” campaign*** cast in this light—i.e., yes we’re British, but this is war—goes over in Britain. While this is the same country whose population accepts the presence of millions of surveillance cameras for security and other law-enforcement purposes, West’s exhortation is yet another acknowledgment that Britain is on a war footing at home.

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*** I last wrote about snitching in mid-June.