1984 - Don't encourage them

DK is advertising a campaign to send a copy of 1984 to our elected Lords and Masters to remind them of just how atrocious a totalitarian regime actually is, and in the process hopefully get them to arrest the slide of the UK towards the nightmarish Oceania. However, whilst I have a lot of sympathy for this campaign, I cannot in good faith sign up to it. To explain, I'll use DK's words (emphasis mine):

1984 is not an instruction manual... as we all know. However, it seems that our lords and masters are unfamiliar with the book's contents—or alternatively, of course, they are very familiar and are actually using it as an instruction manual.

At the risk of sounding very, very paranoid, I kind of suspect that 1984 would open their eyes to a whole host of new shit that they can dump on the heads of the cowed, restricted and near broken British public. Put simply, I don't think they need any encouragement. Rather, I think they need something to make them more liberal, something to inspire them to be less dogmatic, illiberal and totalitarian.

I've no idea what, though, since the current crop of MPs could watch It's A Wonderful Life and turn it into some sort of dystopian nightmare. But perhaps a few copies of The Road to Serfdom or On Liberty might turn the tide. Assuming, that is, that our MPs are actually cerebral enough to be able to read a book that isn't printed on waterproof, chewable card with big letters and lots of pictures painted in primary colours.