Thread by @WomaninHavana

Not only is govt introducing this fiercely anti-democratic law, it is doing it on the sly - forcing through alarming amendments in the Lords so only v committed peers will sit until the early hours to challenge them.

This is not how confident, healthy democracy should function.

https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/1463783154842546179

For more detail on the amendments Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, to which the government quietly tabled these alarming amendments on the right to protest, see Adam’s thread here:

https://twitter.com/adamwagner1/status/1463282056490852357?s=21

The way in which these very alarming amendments to protest rights have been tabled by the govt before the Lords *and* the way in which they are forced through at speed and requiring committed peers to sit until the early hours of challenge, is a double form assault on democracy.

https://twitter.com/greenjennyjones/status/1463764170323767297

These brazen attempts happen as 2 serious parliamentary reports - Government by Diktat & Democracy Denied? - highlight “a potentially serious threat to a cornerstone of our constitution —effective parliamentary scrutiny of legislation.” @JoshuaRozenberg.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/government-b…

Worth reading committed @GreenJennyJones on how 18 pages of draconian laws on non-violent protest we’re dropped this week. In calling for reform of the second chamber, & indeed unfit FPTP, she notes:

“This arrogance of power is nothing new, but the scale of it is shocking.”

https://twitter.com/greenjjnews/status/1463758355529359360

It couldn’t be clearer.

Parliament itself flagging the stark constitutional warnings about the shift in power towards govt.

“A critical moment has been reached when Parliament as a matter of urgency should take stock & consider how the balance of power must be re-set afresh.”

https://twitter.com/ukhouseoflords/status/1464233228101844996