Thread by @docrussjackson

Priti Patel is responsible for this.

She's also pushing through the 'Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill', which will allow the police to arrest people for peaceful protest.

The @Conservatives' anti-democratic, outdated & brutal authoritarianism continues apace.

#Resign

Tonight's events at the vigil remind me of the time the @Conservatives' Mark field took the law into his own hands & manhandled a @Greenpeace protester. The City of London Police reviewed the events & declared that it would be taking no further action.

https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1141819192020295680

And shortly before that, in 2019, Mark Field - who had an affair with Liz Truss - grabbed Jeremy Hunt’s wife by the head and according to the Daily Mail, "kissed her like a vampire".

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

And of course, let's not forget about one of the best known sexists in Britain, our pathological liar PM, Boris Johnson.

In a bid to win over supporters in 2005, he promised that 'voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts'.

businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

In 2012, as London Mayor he answered a question from Jenny Jones, the Green party mayoral candidate. with "blah blah blah fishcakes", & told @UKLabour member and former deputy Labour mayor Nicky Gavron that she was talking "drivel" and "chuntering".

theguardian.com/politics/2012/…

While at the @spectator, he pinned a Pirelli calendar to his desk, which featured nude photography, despite complaints from female colleagues. Boasting, Johnson told readers that the calendar "caused something of a stir."

When he left the @spectator, he discussed Kimberly Quinn, who was then the Spectator's publisher, with some "helpful suggestions for boosting circulation."

He advised his successor to "just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way."

Here he is on his 50th birthday.

In an article complaining about the reaction to Diana's death, Johnson lamented: "We live in an age where feminism is a fact, where giving vent to emotion in public wins votes."

"The Princess is a symbol for every woman who ever felt wronged by a man."

businessinsider.nl/andrew-sabisky…

Critics of Johnson's book '72 Virgins', have pointed out not just the casual racism & antisemitism, but that the book contains sexist attitudes towards women, including a description of “a mega-titted six-footer”.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

In 2012, he wrote about "semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto… glistening like wet otters".

businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

In 2007, he wrote about Hillary Clinton that “She represents, on the face of it, everything I came into politics to oppose... She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

theguardian.com/politics/2015/…

In 1996, he went to the @UKLabour conference & wrote a piece reviewing the quality of “the hot totty”.

“The unanimous opinion is that what has been called the ‘Tottymeter’ reading is higher than at any Labour Party conference in living memory,” he wrote.

In a GQ motoring column, he reviewed his favourite 'babe magnets', including a Ferrari: 'it was as though the whole county of Hampshire was lying back and opening her well-bred legs to be ravished by the Italian stallion."

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

And in 2018 there was a “significant spike” in Islamophobic incidents after Boris Johnson wrote in the Telegraph that it was “absolutely ridiculous” women chose to “go around looking like letterboxes”, & 'bank robbers' in his Daily Telegraph column.

pressgazette.co.uk/boris-johnson-…

His partner of 25 years threw him out twice after several affairs before he started cheating on her with 30 year old Carrie Symonds.

Even his daughter says he's a "selfish bastard".

What does it say about Britain, that we have a posh, sexist, racist, pathological liar as PM?