The right to protest is crucial to democracy.
Priti Patel’s #PoliceBill aims to remove this right.

It would allow the government to stop any protest & create a police state.

Find out how you can help @TheGreenParty's #ProtestIsNotACrime campaign here:

drive.google.com/file/d/1qav_CQ…
The #PoliceBill is now even more dangerous after "amendments" were added without proper scrutiny or debate.

These would make it even easier for peaceful protesters to be prosecuted & jailed for up to 51 weeks.

Will @UKLabour vote against them in the Lords?

#ProtestIsNotACrime
"Locking on" was a key part of the Suffragettes long campaign for votes for women.

Priti Patel's #PoliceBill aims to make this a crime punishable by up to 51 weeks in prison.

Find out how you can help save the right to protest:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qav_CQ…

#ProtestIsNotACrime
Under the #PoliceBill, this sign could get me jailed if police said it was used as part of a protest that had a "relevant impact” on or caused “serious annoyance” to any 2 people, or “serious disruption” to any organisation.

That's pretty much any protest.

#ProtestIsNotACrime
Here's me protesting in a "loud & annoying" way that no doubt caused "serious annoyance" to at least 2 people.

Under Priti Patel's #PoliceBill, this could be declared a "prohibited protest" & any protesters who were part of it jailed for up to 51 weeks.

#ProtestIsNotACrime
If you have photos of yourself protesting, please post them with the hashtag #ProtestIsNotACrime.

The right to peacefully protest - against corruption, bad government policy or anything else - is absolutely fundamental to democracy.

Priti Patel's #PoliceBill aims to remove it.
As a barrister, @Keir_Starmer acted for road protesters, tree-dwellers, hunt saboteurs & the McLibel defendants.

The #PoliceBill & its amendments are an unprecedentedly dangerous assault on our rights. Will @UKLabour firmly oppose them in the House of Lords?

#ProtestIsNotACrime
The first protest I ever went on, with the Anti-Nazi League in 1978.

It helped show the strength of public opposition to National Front racism. It disrupted roads & made a lot of noise.

Just the sort of thing that Priti Patels's #PolicingBill would outlaw.

#ProtestIsNotACrime

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4 Jan
And this was *before* Daniel Kawczynski got his hands on £22,000 of public money for "Polish language lessons".
Learn Polish the Daniel Kawczynski way. Lesson 1:

"Opłaty za szkołę są bardzo drogie. Zrobię wszystko dla pieniędzy."

(School fees are very expensive. I will do anything for money.)
Learn Polish the Daniel Kawczynski way. Lesson 2:

"Mój przyjaciel pochodzi z Arabii Saudyjskiej. Lubi posłów i jest bardzo hojny."

(My friend is from Saudi Arabia. He likes members of parliament and he is very generous.)
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9 Aug 21
It's going to be PM Rishi Sunak, isn't it? Looks like probably sooner rather than later.

Sunak is smart & personable, but his "free-market", "fiscally conservative" ideology is absolutely lethal - & especially disastrous in the context of Covid & the #ClimateEmergency.
I suspect Boris Johnson does not actually want to remain PM for much longer. He's essentially lazy & would rather be raking in easy money from speeches & articles. A determined push from Sunak & his backers would probably oust him quite easily.

Sunak has a lean & hungry look.
Rishi Sunak also has a big advantage within the Tory Party thanks to his intimate connections with hedge-funds - the biggest source of donations to the party.

They will no doubt be especially keen on his "relaxed" attitude to tax avoidance.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
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3 Aug 21
Boris Johnson met with Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya today.

Johnson & the corrupt dictator Lukashenko have some common traits.

They took the same nonachalant approach to visiting Covid wards.

Johnson's party has taken funds from sources close to Putin...
... Johnson's government is planning to restrict people's right to peaceful protest. And the UK & Belarus are the only two countries in Europe that still have a first-past-the-post electoral system.
The UK is still a long way from being a murderous dicatorship like Belarus. But anyone who puts their trust in Boris Johnson's corrupt government to defend democracy and the rule of law in the UK has not being paying attention.
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26 Jul 21
1/ One of the biggest anti-vax, anti-lockdown accounts on Twitter is the so called Anti Lockdown Alliance (GLOBAL). It tweets in several languages but mostly English - all the usual bullsh*t conspiracy theories, about the "Great Reset", Bill Gates, etc...
2/ Here it is sharing a Sputnik article in Portuguese suggesting the virus was created by Bill Gates and George Soros. The Anti Lockdown Alliance often tweets stuff from Russian propaganda media controlled by Putin's mafia state...
3/ In fact, the Anti Lockdown alliance are all-round fans of Putin. Here they are welcoming his remarks about the "Great Reset" - one of the conspiracy theories most heavily promoted by Kremlin trolls...
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24 Jul 21
Nor surprised to see a 'Trump 2024' flag at the so-called #freedomrally in London.

These crowds always include a large far-right element, as well as deluded #COVIDIOTS who have watched too many dodgy Youtube videos. Image
Fascists have always seized on & weaponised any means of stoking paranoia & resentment. The influenza epidemic at the end of WW1 helped create conditions for the rise of fascism, and this pandemic may well be doing the same.
mg.co.za/opinion/2021-0…
Sorry - my previous tweet about World of Warcraft was confusing this with Minecraft (neither of which I know anything about, as you'll have guessed). The flag next to the Trump flag is from Minecraft. No idea why it's being waved at a #Covidiots rally.
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14 Jun 21
ThREAD: To understand where Boris Johnson's culture war is heading, the case of Spiked is instructive - and not just because his senior adviser Munira Mirza is a veteran of the former far-left & now far-right cult. 1/
2/ Spiked grew out of a Marxist sect that called itself the Revolutionary Communist Party. It prided itself on being truer to the methods of Lenin & Trotsky than its far-left competitors. Members saw themselves a vanguard elite that would kick the working class into revolution…
3/ Unaccountably, the working class was not greatly interested in being led into a glorious future by professor of sociology Frank Furedi and his cult-like acolytes. When the RCP put up candidates for election in 1987, they all lost their deposits…
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