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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I'm watching Parliament discuss the #PolicingBill.
Thread:
MP @HarrietHarman calls for curb-crawling (form of sexual harassment) to be made into a specific offence, with the potential penalty of losing one's driver's license. #PolicingBill
Shadow Home Office Minister @LabourSJ is an absolute rockstar on this.
And demands removal of the clauses which criminalise being #NoisyAndAnnoying at protests.
I'll probably wake up to a bunch of angry replies so, as I've said MANY times:
The public, BOTH remainers and Leavers alike, on average, did not understand UK-EU relations well enough to be given that question.
Even I didn't understand the Northern Ireland dimension until 2018.
The above tweet is being quoted by people choosing to take the last sentence in isolation and pretend I wasn't OBVIOUSLY saying that despite being more qualified on EU law than 99% of Britain, there were still aspects of UK-EU relations I was ignorant of.
If a PM hires a Health Sec he calls "hopeless", watches him give NHS contracts to family/mistress-linked companies, kill 130K people, spend £156million on unsafe PPE & shag his aide in lockdown, but still has "full confidence" in him...
Maybe Matt Hancock isn't the core problem.
Can we stop pretending that unconditional national pride is a good thing?
e.g.
If knowing the UK is intentionally participating in and benefiting from the murder of 1000s of innocent children in foreign countries has NO EFFECT on your sense of national pride, you're a sociopath.
It's been half a decade since the 2016 EU Referendum.
Here's an amusing/depressing thread of some of the posts I made in the 5 days before the vote. #5yearsofBrexit
20 June 2016
LOOK AT ALL THESE FACTS!
We debated Brexit for 3 years after this, and the British media STILL failed to explain this stuff. #5YearsOfBrexit