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Ian Dunt

5 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read

Priti Patel's 'protest banning orders' are a direct threat to freedom of speech and assembly inews.co.uk/opinion/column…

They’re basically a copy-and-paste job from football banning orders, which are used to tackle violent hooligans, or criminal behaviour orders, which are used to tackle anti-social behaviour. But there is a crucial distinction.

Those orders prevented people from going to football matches or engaging in misconduct. These orders prevent people from exercising their democratic rights.

That's why the Home Office itself warned that they "essentially take away a person’s right to protest". Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary & Fire and Rescue Services said they would "completely remove an individual’s right to attend a protest".

Now Patel is pursuing them anyway - a fundamental assault on basic human rights, all to get rid of a bunch of climate change activists on a motorway.

And it barely needs saying that this comes on top of existing measures to silence and criminalise demonstrators. This is a full-spectrum attack on the right of protest.

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Ian Dunt

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6 Oct

If this speech lasts five minutes it'll be too long.

I seem to be watching a Tory prime minister make a speech about how catastrophically the country has performed after 11 years of Tory rule.

Johnson mistakes alliteration for wit.

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Ian Dunt

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5 Oct

Priti Patel up for her speech if you've got the stomach for it news.sky.com/story/watch-sk…

Not sure I do, to be honest.

Grim to hear her respond to Sarah Everard case by citing provisions in the policing bill. If they really believed in those provisions, they wouldn't have stuffed them in a bill which also worked to silence those who demonstrate to protect women from violence.

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3 Oct

Johnson's line that we're transitioning to high wage economy is different to most of his post-truth gibberish, because it'll be verifiable in people's real lives by the next election.

Usually his post-truth gibberish is based on the future, like the Brexit campaign, or cultural values, which aren't falsifiable. But in this case, people will come to their own conclusions about their quality of life.

That's a problem for him, because in truth there is no strategy. The higher wages schtick is a PR bandage job on a crisis they themselves inflicted. If you create a labour shortage amid ongoing inflation and reduced trade, people will in general be poorer.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

29 Sep

Well that's fucking weird conference right there.

It's still the case that Starmer should be much, much better at day to day attack, especially on the fuel crisis.

But today he dragged Labour into a position that could potentially win an election. He got them cheering for a vision which is palatable to the voters they need to attract without betraying their values. And that's a triumph, whichever way you look at it.

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Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

29 Sep

Starmer speech starts in a bit - livestream here

There's a very short bit on the fuel crisis. Vague, lacking in detail, passion, or solutions. I hope that wasn't all he has to say about it, but I suspect it was.

Much better and tougher now. "To the voters who thought we were unpatriotic or irresponsible or that we looked down on them, I say these simple but powerful words. We will never under my leadership go into an election with a manifesto that is not a serious plan for government."

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Ian Dunt

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28 Sep

Right, don't shit yourself, but I've got some good news about the Labour party. Nick Thomas-Symonds just did a very good speech on crime, which contained the kind of consensual politics the party needs to succeed inews.co.uk/opinion/labour…

I mean you look at the main news agenda and the party is an absolute state - mute on a national crisis, beset by internal warfare, hit by front bench resignations, losing unions, the lot.

But when you take a peek at the speeches from front benchers - particularly Thomas-Symonds and Rachel Reeves - you can see the outline of an smart, effective and confident policy programme for the next election.

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