The Prime Minister's statement tonight made it clear Covid passes are coming. Trials will go ahead within weeks. Millions of us tonight are wondering just how bad this "new normal" could be.
We will do everything in our power to prevent internal health passports going ahead.
And together, we're making great strides.
But if Covid passes do go ahead, we will not give up the fight - and we will pursue a legal challenge if we can.
We have a fantastic team of human rights lawyers at the ready...
Our director @silkiecarlo said: βOur common goal is to emerge from lockdown β healthy, safe and free. But we wonβt arrive at freedom through exclusionβ /1
π£ THREAD | MPs will vote on the second reading of the #PoliceCrackdownBill TODAY
A vote for the Bill will place protest rights in a permanent lockdown.
β οΈWhen @theresa_may voices concern that the government's plans might be too authoritarian... something must be up!
And IT IS.
This #PoliceCrackdownBill is a serious threat to our right to protest. The protest restrictions must be opposed.
πͺ§ 'Does she not see that handing over more draconian powers to the police when they have so badly misjudged this situation would be both foolish and dangerous?'
The #PolicingBill in Parliament today is disastrous for protest rights.
It also contains clauses on digital extraction that could roll back our win against digital strip searches - meaning victims face intrusive, unnecessary, full phone downloads again.
Faced with the reality of the stateβs brutal silencing of expression and dissent over recent days and months, MPs are now voicing defence for free speech, liberty and democratic rights.
But for this to be meaningful & honest, those same politicians must oppose the #PolicingBill
A vote for the #PolicingBill is a vote for the shameful force seen at Clapham Common last night.
A vote for the #PolicingBill is a vote to keep protest rights in lockdown permanently.
Because the powers in this Bill are extreme, excessive and undemocratic to the core.
The 307 page Bill would criminalise a spectrum of dissent - from 1 person demonstrations, to the risk(!) of causing annoyance.
The Government can only go back to the drawing board. There are already excessive public order offences that heavily criminalise protest activities.