I’m really torn about this. We want police by consent and to have some discrepancy to do the right / moral thing but don’t want to give them too much power to choose what laws they enforce. You don’t want Nazi type “just following orders” but you don’t want them targeting left-wing protestors more because they lean right-wing (the Met police at least who let’s not forget, targetted/target women, queer people, black people, etc much more than the right wing)

The laws are made by Parliament and the current labour government should take the full blame for proscribing this group. The anti terrorism laws are so harsh that I can believe the police had no choice but to arrest them.

The absurdity of arresting the numbers they did, the type of people they did, and this £10m cost should have made the government change the law itself.