Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn WTF is that obsession in the UK with banning protest and arresting protesters??? When did all this change?
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@pvonhellermannn WTF is that obsession in the UK with banning protest and arresting protesters??? When did all this change?
@BubblegumYeti i know!! This is the right response! There is a real authoritarianism rising here that is, well, not what you associate with the UK.
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@pvonhellermannn WTF is that obsession in the UK with banning protest and arresting protesters??? When did all this change?
@BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn Since Sir Keir Zionist Starmer it seemed this accelerated. The special relationship between UK and Israel must be upheld /s that's why Jeremy Corbyn had to go. Even newspapers need to obey to UK government and its secret agencies. https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
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@BubblegumYeti i know!! This is the right response! There is a real authoritarianism rising here that is, well, not what you associate with the UK.
@pvonhellermannn after Brexit, this is exactly what you could have expected from the UK. It's the same kind of mechanisms in power: control people through fear (and threats). And with the EU out of the way it may even be easier to do now. @BubblegumYeti
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@BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn Since Sir Keir Zionist Starmer it seemed this accelerated. The special relationship between UK and Israel must be upheld /s that's why Jeremy Corbyn had to go. Even newspapers need to obey to UK government and its secret agencies. https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
@regendans @BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn there are genuine problems cases that I think have ben used to justify this: continuous picketing of women's health advice centres by anti-abortionists and repeated 'protests' by fascist bigotsd outside hotels housing asylum seekers.
But in terms of a general and entirely at the discretion of the police ban these rank there with use of "think of the children" arguments for the equally heinous Draconian 'online safety' measures and the lumping together of anti- Palestine Action terrorism legislation with a couple of neonazi organisations that were a genuine case. -
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn Deep down they’ve had a draconian view on watching/controlling citizens since at least Blair. Not sure why but it’s quite the blind spot for them.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn The Guardian used to be my favourite, however, a few years ago I stopped reading it.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
That piece of legislation may also be aimed at other protests (side eye at the fuel protests in Ireland at the moment) and frankly anything else they don’t like. Awful.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn starmer seems to be actively trying to alienate the electorate.
If the UK wanted an illiberal country run by greedy millionaires they'd have stuck with the Tories. -
@pvonhellermannn WTF is that obsession in the UK with banning protest and arresting protesters??? When did all this change?
@BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn
Around the time that statue was pushed in the dock in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protest hit the UK. That's when the Tories really went in on stripping away the right to protest. It culminated in loosely worded legislation in a new act in 2022.
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@BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn
Around the time that statue was pushed in the dock in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protest hit the UK. That's when the Tories really went in on stripping away the right to protest. It culminated in loosely worded legislation in a new act in 2022.
@BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn
Since then they, for example, confiscated amplification equipment of vocal anti brexit campaigner Steve Bray. Sentenced protesters to 5 years for sitting in a *road. And much more.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn Vote left; this is what you get.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn Honestly, it looks pretty worrying and like a step in the wrong direction , but I’d still wait to see how it’s actually enforced in practice, because sometimes laws sound much harsher on paper than they end up being in real life.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn past or future? We are already in the realms of Minority Report? Serious voter's remorse here - never again.
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@BubblegumYeti i know!! This is the right response! There is a real authoritarianism rising here that is, well, not what you associate with the UK.
@pvonhellermannn @BubblegumYeti I associate this with the UK since forever.
When was the period in history when the UK government wasn't banning protest and arresting protesters? I can't think of any.
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Labour MPs vote through draconian law giving police powers to ban recurring protests
Recurring protests which might have no connection to each other could now be banned by police on the basis of “cumulative disruption” caused by past or future planned protests in the same “area”.
I reject everything that Labour has become. What dystopian times we live in. #UKPolitics
@pvonhellermannn “recurring protests”, does that include yearly repeated protests? Just asking in the weeks before May 1…
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@pvonhellermannn @BubblegumYeti I associate this with the UK since forever.
When was the period in history when the UK government wasn't banning protest and arresting protesters? I can't think of any.
@ahltorp Back in the old days they just used to kill the protesters (Peterloo, anyone) @pvonhellermannn @BubblegumYeti
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@pvonhellermannn Vote left; this is what you get.
Nice story bro ...
The UK 'Labour' government are no more left than the Tories or Reform. -
@petealexharris @regendans @BubblegumYeti @pvonhellermannn which is why there is no reason to expand and use as an excuse legislation and policing which legitimately seeks to limit harassment of other people in the UK to also outlaw peaceful protest against government policy and against companies such as Elbit that are helping murder people.
