How did it happen? How did Britain, while having the courage and resolution to break free from the oppressive empire run from Brussels, simultaneously sleepwalk into the domestic servitude of a police state? Britain has not been invaded by a foreign power since 1688, nor lived under a dictatorship since the death of Oliver Cromwell. In the collective memory of people still living, we have feared for our freedom twice, in 1940 and during the Cold War; but those were foreign threats, we never expected to be enslaved from within, least of all by a Conservative government. But that is what has happened, and while the Tories cannot escape punishment by unprecedented electoral annihilation next year (the vengeful impulse to destroy them is widespread and strongest among conservatives), the evil they have wrought will, in Shakespearian terms, live after them.