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Apr 28 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday was the worst day for UK democracy in 200 years: following the 1819 #PeterlooMassacre, the UK Govt introduced draconian legislation, reminiscent of the #PoliceBill - the so-called 'Six Acts', which aimed at suppressing any meetings for the purpose of radical reform.
As for the Elections Bill, there were just 6 cases of in-person electoral fraud at #GE2019. For this, the Govt is disenfranchising 3 million or so of the electorate who don’t have ID, the majority of whom are young &/or from poorer & BAME backgrounds, who tend to vote @UKLabour.
As for the UK Government's grotesque Nationality & Borders Bill - & the abhorrent 'deal' with #Rwanda - it has been universally criticised by human rights organisations because, shamefully, it "undermines established international refugee protection law".

unhcr.org/news/press/202…
How did we get here?

Andrew Bridgen. 😬

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Well here we are. A once proud & half decent nation turned into one of the most polarised, antidemocratic & authoritarian populist nationalist 'advanced economies' on earth, in just a few short years.

If you can't see it, you're blind.

If you don't oppose it, you're complicit.
Allow me to spell out precisely where Britain is today, by drawing on a few uncanny historical parallels:

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So Tories have: criminalised protest; introduced laws meaning journalists can be jailed for 14 years for embarrassing the Govt; removed independence from the Electoral Commission; introduced voter ID despite just 6 cases at #GE2019; & banned teaching anti-capitalism in schools.😬
It all sounds eerily familiar...

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The corrupt anti-democratic Tories are forcing voters to show ID at polling stations from next year, despite just 34 allegations of in-person voter fraud in 2019, & eight in 2018.

They know up to 3 million voters lack the necessary ID to vote in person.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Democracy is dying - this time in Britain - we all know what happened last time.

Fight like hell to save it from the cruelest, most corrupt, immoral, self-serving, antidemocratic & authoritarian UK Government in post-war history.

#NeverForget #NeverAgain
How do they keep getting away with this shit? By getting their billionaire non-dom & foreign chums Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & the remaining Barclay brother to continue the longest running anti-progressive #propaganda campaign in history.

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