Because that’s definitely the biggest problem facing the country right now.
Planning something that’s gonna piss us all off over the edge, is he? Fine, you want the shit to hit the fan, so be it. I promise the GE will be forced on you, as will the thought ‘well, maybe we shouldn’t have provoked them, now things are burning, and we sacked all the police years ago. Still, A&E….oh, nevermind…’. Game on, home-y….
“Preventing our emergency services from reaching those who desperately need them is indefensible, hideously selfish”
Oh man that’s rich coming from a Tory.
Well done environmental groups, this is the exact reason you don’t do idiotic things like slashing tyres (aside from the inherent dangers) or damaging public art. All they need is a slither of an excuse to give themselves more powers.
The really nasty thing hidden in the new bill is the Serious Disruption Prevention Order, the bar for which handing out seems quite low, and is effectively an ASBO for protesters. It can restrict:
– being in or entering a particular place or area between particular times on any day
– being with particular persons
– participating in particular activities
– having particular articles with them
– using the internet to facilitate or encourage persons to commit a protest-related offence … or carry out activities related to a protest that result in, or are likely to result in, serious disruption to two or more individuals, or to an organisation
These are in addition to curfew times, regular check-ins and electronic monitoring.
Serious disruption is obviously subjective, and the bar seems to be two occurences of a ” seriously disruptive” protest-related activity on two separate days within 5 years of each other.
Sounds good to me If it helps stop the eco terrorists
Thus is bullshit. They’re already conflating different protester behaviour to justify it.
“There isn’t a human right to damage property.”
No, there isn’t, and there is already perfectly good legislation in place that makes it an offence to damage property. That is completely unrelated to the idea of criminalising peaceful protests.
Agent provocateurs are always used in protests to make them violent and shut them down. They’re just making it easier. They must expect a lot of protests coming.
Hopefully this will come back to bite the Tories in the ass –
This will probably be used to arrest their own party when they protest against masks or when they want lockdowns to end (they are the party that loves to kill grandma after all)
Is sending letters to the 1922 committee a disruptive protest? How about the BoE MPC raising interest rates?
Activist groups in the UK are riddled through with cops, it wouldn’t surprise me that all these ridiculous stunts are purely to generate public support for the government to pass laws like this.
Rather than trifling around with this sort of distractionary nonsense perhaps the government could just call a general election if it doesn’t fancy tackling the real problems it created.
>Suella Braverman says the new Public Order Bill will stop demonstrators holding the public “to ransom”.
didnt the tories hold the nhs, the councils, the police and the rest of the fucking country to ransom?
Ah well, we can only hope it won’t pass through this incredibly divided parliament.
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Because that’s definitely the biggest problem facing the country right now.
Planning something that’s gonna piss us all off over the edge, is he? Fine, you want the shit to hit the fan, so be it. I promise the GE will be forced on you, as will the thought ‘well, maybe we shouldn’t have provoked them, now things are burning, and we sacked all the police years ago. Still, A&E….oh, nevermind…’. Game on, home-y….
“Preventing our emergency services from reaching those who desperately need them is indefensible, hideously selfish”
Oh man that’s rich coming from a Tory.
Well done environmental groups, this is the exact reason you don’t do idiotic things like slashing tyres (aside from the inherent dangers) or damaging public art. All they need is a slither of an excuse to give themselves more powers.
The really nasty thing hidden in the new bill is the Serious Disruption Prevention Order, the bar for which handing out seems quite low, and is effectively an ASBO for protesters. It can restrict:
– being in or entering a particular place or area between particular times on any day
– being with particular persons
– participating in particular activities
– having particular articles with them
– using the internet to facilitate or encourage persons to commit a protest-related offence … or carry out activities related to a protest that result in, or are likely to result in, serious disruption to two or more individuals, or to an organisation
These are in addition to curfew times, regular check-ins and electronic monitoring.
Serious disruption is obviously subjective, and the bar seems to be two occurences of a ” seriously disruptive” protest-related activity on two separate days within 5 years of each other.
Sounds good to me If it helps stop the eco terrorists
Thus is bullshit. They’re already conflating different protester behaviour to justify it.
“There isn’t a human right to damage property.”
No, there isn’t, and there is already perfectly good legislation in place that makes it an offence to damage property. That is completely unrelated to the idea of criminalising peaceful protests.
Agent provocateurs are always used in protests to make them violent and shut them down. They’re just making it easier. They must expect a lot of protests coming.
Hopefully this will come back to bite the Tories in the ass –
This will probably be used to arrest their own party when they protest against masks or when they want lockdowns to end (they are the party that loves to kill grandma after all)
Is sending letters to the 1922 committee a disruptive protest? How about the BoE MPC raising interest rates?
Activist groups in the UK are riddled through with cops, it wouldn’t surprise me that all these ridiculous stunts are purely to generate public support for the government to pass laws like this.
Rather than trifling around with this sort of distractionary nonsense perhaps the government could just call a general election if it doesn’t fancy tackling the real problems it created.
>Suella Braverman says the new Public Order Bill will stop demonstrators holding the public “to ransom”.
didnt the tories hold the nhs, the councils, the police and the rest of the fucking country to ransom?
Ah well, we can only hope it won’t pass through this incredibly divided parliament.