Thread by @docrussjackson

Ask @UKLabour peers to back the extremely important Fatal Motion in the Lords.

In effect, the Govt's proposed changes would allow the police & home office to decide what is a good or bad protest.

Defend Parliamentary Democracy - Sign the Petition! 🙏

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Only a few weeks ago the Government lost a vote in the Lords on the Public Order Bill to change the interpretation of “serious disruption” of other people’s day-to-day activities to mean “anything less than minor”.

The Lords opposed this change by 254 votes to 240.

Our increasingly illiberal government are now trying to reinsert this change via secondary legislation which has less Parliamentary scrutiny and can’t be amended in any way.

Baroness @GreenJennyJones has tabled a fatal motion to stop their proposal from becoming law.

If the Lords vote on this Fatal Motion on Tuesday 13th June is lost, then it allows Ministers, for the first time in British history, to overturn a parliamentary vote against a new law.

This illiberal, antidemocratic, authoritarian & indeed anti-British act must be stopped. 🇬🇧

It sets a precedent where a government can lose votes in Parliament, when trying to pass legislation, then simply have the same laws waved through as regulations.

It undermines the whole system of parliamentary democracy and allows government by diktat.

So @UKLabour needs to find its spine & work with the other opposition parties to stop this legislation in its tracks. They have put a motion of regret, which opposes the Govt proposal, but doesn't change anything.

The government falsely claims this new law is about #JustStopOil.

In truth the changes will hurt *anyone* who ever wants to organise a protest or assembly - *anyone* from Friends of the Earth to local people raising an issue outside a council meeting.

In effect, it allows the police & home office to decide what is a 'good' or 'bad' protest.