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somehow I’m angrier about this than you guys.Perhaps your news sources are giving a slightly biased view of what's going on in the UK?
It's certainly not illegal to protest in the UK - but there have always been public safety concerns. The right to protest doesn't give protesters free reign to cause massive disruption as some of the more controversial tactics of "Extinction Rebellion" had. While Magna Carta was an important document in our history its not an inviolable constitution - for one things most of us are not Baron's. We've always had magistrates and non-jury Judge trails - the current proposals don't abolish them but do change the boundaries of what will automatically be a jury based trial. We shall see if they get through the legislature unopposed.
I guess that's it, you don't even know what is going on. Trusting the wrong people. Taking away the right to protest, jury trials, allowing bad faith terror designations and accusations of supporting them for protesting the same issue without mentioning them, as reported in the guardian podcast.
That you would accept all of that by your own politician you voted for, says it all. You are probably one of the more informed ones too sadly, hopelessly misled by some of the worst people on the planet. 3 years in prison without a fucking jury trial, 1 was unacceptable. Your ancestors would be ashamed.