I no longer have any problem calling all 357 Tory MPs fascists because...
Fascism involves the forceful suppression of opposition and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM just voted for police to arrest protesters who shout too loudly. #PoliceCrackdownBill#PolicingBill
Tory MP David Davis said the #PoliceCrackdownBill "actually does pose a grave threat to the fundamental right of protest" then voted for it!
Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly said the #PolicingBill would "reduce public safety" by encouraging the police to use force against peaceful protesters... THEN VOTED FOR IT!
Then there's Steve Baker. He claims to be a champion of individual liberty.
He even PERSONALLY reassured me that he knew the #PolicingBill gives "far too much discretion to the police" and that the limitations on protest "should not be ignored".
THEN HE VOTED FOR IT!
FASCIST!
You know how my video made that Mr Burns joke about MPs calling the police on loud protesters outside Parliament?
Within 48hrs of voting to arrest peaceful protesters, Nadine Dorries asked police to arrest Steve Bray, mentioned in my video, for shouting from a distance.
FASCIST!
I made that video month ago!!
STOP PROVING ME RIGHT!
Tory MP Victoria Atkins argued that the police wouldn't use the powers often and that they would decide the acceptable noise levels for each protest based on THEIR perception of its legitimacy.
FASCIST!
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.