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Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courts
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What is happening in the UK?
You guys went from 0 to authoritarian like very quickly
(New) New Labour got back in power.
Labour are meant to be the left wing workers party. Old school Labour are socialists that brought in such things as the NHS (free healthcare) and The Open University (non-elitist university education open to anybody) in the mid-1900s.
New Labour first came into power in 1997 and left in 2010, they got back in last year (2024). They are not socialist by any means. They pretend at times to be socialist because of the image and reputation of Labour but in reality they’re capitalists. These are the people that introduced privatisation into the NHS (so you can only get healthcare for certain things if you are rich enough) and started the Iraq War 2 with Bush. They have always had an authoritarian streak but the socialists still within the party generally managed to hold them off. They had plans for mass surveillance and mandatory ID cards, but never managed to implement it by the time they lost the 2010 election.
Now they’re back, and the socialist elements of the party have been shunned ot kicked out, so the authoritarians can near do as they wish now.
In one year they have:
I’ve been sitting on the toilet too long writing this now so that’ll do, but here’s some more reading if you wish:
tribunemag.co.uk/…/new-labours-authoritarianism-i…
scotsman.com/…/palestine-action-ban-reveals-labou…
I’ve been sitting on the toilet too long writing this now so that’ll do, but here’s some more reading if you wish:
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I bet your legs have fallen asleep.
First time? UK going full auth mode and inspiring a vicious uprising and rebellion is one of the oldest traditions in their culture.
Always has been
Labour being this shit is going to give Britain to Reform. Why do all neoliberals just fuck up absolutely everything? They just can’t help themselves.
That’s some V for Vendetta shit
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
What happen to you, UK? Torries is extremely incompetent, Reform is a fascist group, and Labour is an authoritarian party.
The tories are a more authoritarian party than labour.
I think there is a world wide shift to authoritarian like systems
Yeah, i agree, but still. The current shift mean people gonna throw around the “everyone is the same, what’s the point of voting” argument next election, which kinda spell the doom of any party that isn’t right leaning.
Seems like a good use of taxpayer money /s
Mr Cobb, who has 2,200 followers on his Facebook page, said he had never attended a demonstration or been a member of Palestine Action – now a proscribed terrorist organisation.
His arrest comes after more than 500 peaceful protesters were arrested at a demonstration in Parliament Square earlier this month for holding placards supporting the group.
Gosh, that must be expensive, protecting us all from old people with t-shirts and Facebook posts. I just hope the UK Government is remembering to keep some of the taxpayers’ money back to fund making trans people’s lives more difficult every day because JK Rowling. Then they have all the major threats covered and the British people can sleep soundly (until the police smash down the door).
All the pigs are all lined up, I give you all that you want…
Wow, that guy has to be the most menacing guy I’ve ever seen. I am so scared. The horrors. Absolute horrors. Menace to society. Bring it all down. Thank you! Thank you for keeping us safe! Society would surely collapse if we didn’t drag 52 year old janitors from their beds in the wee hours of the morning for sharing facebook posts. Phew I feel so much safer.
If I was in the UK, I’d probably already be in jail for this. Or for carrying a 3" pocketknife, or calling my neighbor a fascist and his wife a fat Nazi, or whatever.
American’s without guns, here’s your preview. They would already be kicking down our doors if there were zero fear of consequence.
Do Americans not have cops already kicking down doors? Only with guns drawn, and dead dogs in their wake.
Pocket knife is fine unless you’re a black youth.
Ah! Good to hear the Brits are still keeping up with us Americans!
I think government leader are forgetting that one of the core ideas of liberal democracy is to protect individual rights.
I will indeed protect our individual rights if need be. That’s not macho talk. Masked men are not dragging my brown wife out of our house, kicking and begging and screaming. I’ve made the decision, drawn the line, I will fight and die first.
To your point, I think Americans have forgotten that protecting individual rights is a fight that never ends. And yes, sometimes we will die doing so.
core ideas of liberal democracy is to protect individual rights
Least naïve liberal
The USA has the world’s highest incarceration rate. Since at least 1990.
proscription
the action of forbidding something; banning.
I learned a new word today
If I took a drink every time I posted “this is why I fucking left britain” my liver wouldn’t be doing too well.
I’m laughing at all the US emigrants who moved to the UK to avoid fascism.
He aged pretty well
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Setting aside freedom of speech (as UK already did) why would you raid a suspect in a nonviolent crime with no material evidence to seize? Why not just send a summons?
Though I can answer my own question: state terror campaign to scare population into submission
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is fascism. As clear as day as the USA’s.