jackboot

By the time you had made up your minds we would have been under the 'jackboot'.

Released in June 1940, The Mortal Storm dramatized the metamorphosis of Germany into a gangster state by showing the imprint of the Nazi jackboot on a single family.

'The militarization of the electoral process is a disservice to our democracy and a throwback to the jackboot era of military dictatorship.

By smothering under the jackboot their desire for freedom, India has turned a peaceful campaign for self-determination into an armed struggle.

To vote is to defy the jackboot worn by terrorism that seeks to crush us.

Mr Pithie refers to Britain receiving very little thanks from our European allies for all her efforts in saving that continent from the slavery of the jackboot.

Referendum Oh dear voting is over, Great Britain is out Half the country expects we'll go down the spout Gone from Europe's jackboot and out of the union Weeping Remainers can't take this bitter onion The pound it has fallen, the stock market crashed Those on their pensions seriously bashed D-Day - remember, is all they can say Skint they may be, this is their Independence Day The spirit of Churchill will keep us alive Worry not that your finances have taken a dive The workers have spoken with considerable clout Poor Cameron and cronies are rightly kicked out Who would have thought Labour could wreck it Useless Jeremy Corbyn has brought us the Brexit JOHN PURVES, Whitley Bay

IMAGINE Hitler had won the Battle of Britain in 1940, and we were under the Nazi jackboot.

Without the bravery of the Poles, Britain would probably have fallen under the heel of the jackboot.

Is it not then unrealistic to expect that countries such as Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, would emerge from beneath the jackboot of their megalomaniac leaders into a new Utopia?

"But it is my hope that you will also smell the city drains, observe the sacrifice of the land and water on the altar of expedient and ruthless disregard for the environment, and feel the jackboot of authoritarian cruelty quietly encouraged by official indifference.