Belarus, the only other European country that uses our FPTP voting system, just arrested the organiser of last year's protest.
Belarus is often called Europe's Last Dictatorship, but really it's the UK's Ghost of Tory Future.
#PolicingBill
news.sky.com/story/amp/roma…
Belarus is often called Europe's Last Dictatorship, but really it's the UK's Ghost of Tory Future.
#PolicingBill
news.sky.com/story/amp/roma…
To anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating...
PLEASE, tell me why else a government would give itself the power to arrest people for simply being noisy at a protest.
I'm waiting?
There's a reason it's historically called "Creeping Dictatorship"!
PLEASE, tell me why else a government would give itself the power to arrest people for simply being noisy at a protest.
I'm waiting?
There's a reason it's historically called "Creeping Dictatorship"!
Under the Tory Government's #PolicingBill, the police can decide that any protest is too noisy and jail the person who organised it for a year without the person ever even seeing a jury.
THIS weakens our ability to call out regimes like Belarus for arresting protest organisers.
THIS weakens our ability to call out regimes like Belarus for arresting protest organisers.
"Femi! Saying the UK's passing laws to arrest protest organisers, weakens our defence of protesters arrested in Belarus."
Fair but:
A) Tories are obv the core problem. Not my tweets.
B) Fixing the UK by pointing to warning countries, helps us defend those countries in future.
Fair but:
A) Tories are obv the core problem. Not my tweets.
B) Fixing the UK by pointing to warning countries, helps us defend those countries in future.
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