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27 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This looks like terrible policing from Avon and Somerset Police. I've seen no reports of violence until 10pm, when the police pointlessly try to close down the protest. news.sky.com/story/bristol-…
The videos of their behaviour are extremely aggressive and violent And given the fabrications about injuries last week, we now can't trust what they report.
And of course, because everything on this website can only be black and white, people are now acting like this somehow negates what happened last week. Maybe they want to explain what can justify people setting fire to a police van.
There really has to a better standard of argument than 'we're fighting fascism' on the one hand and 'police can do what they like' on the other. You can try to exercise independent judgement, rather than knee-jerk tribal loyalty.

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Most of those claiming to be liberal critics of lockdown clearly have no idea what liberalism is.
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Amid all the triumphalism over vaccines, we still haven't done what needed to be done to ensure there isn't another lockdown: closing the border.
Experts have been pointing this out for months now, utterly flabbergasted. Other countries did this even though they were landlocked and the border went through towns. We have the advantage of geography and still failed.
Maybe we'll be ok. And maybe we fucking won't. But with the vaccine roll out we had the opportunity to at least guarantee we'd be free inside the country. Instead we left our fate up to chance.
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