Thread by @4billionaires

BREAKING NEWS [thread]

Today a senior officer has testified in court that after approx 90mins of our printworks protest, Priti Patel & Boris Johnson were taking an active interest

Just after midnight on 4th September 2020, the Home Sec rang the Hertfordshire Chief Constable...

https://twitter.com/XRebellionUK/status/1395730645922590721

We do not know what was discussed, other than there was pressure to move the protest ASAP

This informed the police behaviour;
👉protestors had stated from the start that they would leave willingly at 11am

👉the protestors on the roof of the vans & suspended in the bamboo structures, came down at 11am on the dot to be arrested
👉at this point, the 2 vans and 2 8metre tall tensegrity structures were still in the road (the protest could have continued for many more hours)

👉despite it being obvious they would not succeed in clearing the Newsprinters entrance before 11am, the police expended man power & resources to cut protestors out of lockons and remove them forcibly

The exchanges between Patel & Herts police happened *before* the lower command had established their aggressive 3 point plan

Does the ops manager at Newsprinters have the Home Sec's phone number?

Or did Rupert Murdoch intervene, and give his friend & wedding guest Patel a call?

This is an empire run on secret meetings behind closed doors.
🤝4th Jan 1981: Murdoch meets Thatcher to discuss purchasing the Times (a meeting vehemently denied by both until it was exposed recently)

🤝11 Mar 2003 (a week before Commons vote on Iraq): Murdoch calls Blair 3 times to lobby for UK invasion
🥂4 Mar 2016: Patel & Gove attend Murdoch's wedding
🤝14 Dec 2019 (48 hrs after election): Johnson partys with billionaire press baron Evgeny Lebedev

🤝15 Dec 2019 (72 hrs after election): Johnson meets Murdoch in private
🤝15 Aug 2020: Michael Gove meets press baron Lord Rothermere in private
🤝26 Aug 2020: Murdoch takes Rishi Sunak out for lunch
💥4 Sept 2020: XR protest at Murdoch-owned Newsprinters

🤝14 Sept 2020: Patel meets Murdoch in private
🤝18 Sept 2020: Johnson meets Murdoch in private
🤝25 Sept 2020: Rees-Mogg meets Murdoch in private
🤝2019-2020: Murdoch & his employees meet with senior govt officials a staggering 206 times

💥9 Mar 2021: Patel introduces Policing Powers bill which directly mentions the protest at Newsprinters

4 billionaires own our news.
3 companies control 90% of the national newspaper market
6 companies control 84% of the local newspaper market

We do not have a free press.

The revolving door between politicians & the press barons makes a mockery of our 'democracy'

The corrupt billionaire press spread climate denial, racism & hate

#TheyWantUsDivided, so we *must* pull together.

It's now or never. Join us: June 27th

#FreeThePress #KillTheBill

👉fb.me/e/1GxH89NHI👈

@docrussjackson @XRebellionUK @corbyn_project @The99Perc @killthebill_1 @BrianCathcart @ta_mills @novaramedia @AyoCaesar @mediareformUK @BylineTimes @peterjukes @DU_2024 @allthecitizens @evolvepolitics @UnlockDemocracy @JimMFelton

Dear former Telegraph employees @carolecadwalla & @OborneTweets,

will you support our campaign for an accountable, diverse and FREE press?

For democracy, planet, people and a more equal, compassionate society