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what a profoundly stupid country
if you make peaceful protest illegal, how do you think discourse will develop from there?
Green Peace went militant and lost a ton of support. I’ve already seen this movie a few times now. The UK is making an example with Greta before a legit army forms behind her. Go against the grain, you get the ax.
What the actual fuck are you on about
This law came from the Tories silencing protest against genocide to appease their donors
The London Met are frequently caught being fascists who abuse women
And now we've got the least left wing labour government of all time happily not doing anything about it.
They're just letting the Met arrest anyone with any word resembling Palestine on them
They're not letting the Met do anything.
They're explicitly instructing them to, with proscription and their crackdown on protest moreso than the Tories did.
We have red Tories in charge just now instead of blue Tories. It's the Democrats and Republicans in America all over again. And because both flavours of Tory are shite, people are dissatisfied and terrifyingly pledging their support to Reform (aka the fascist party) instead.
Your Party (socialists) and The Greens (environmentally focused social democrats-ish) are also gaining vote share but alarmingly not at the same rate as Reform.