UK or not UK?
Prem.Sikka
https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1668728811670716423Lords voted 154-68 to let Tory govt change the Public Order Act through the back door, Unprecedented.
Our freedoms to protest gone; police have carte blanche, no accountability.
Just Stop Oil
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668898464502018050You probably have no idea, because the media didn't cover it, but last night we lost our final defence against new, fascist, anti-protest laws.
Tens of thousands of people
petitioned Labour to vote to block laws in the House of Lords that had already voted down — but that the government snuck back in.
Instead of acting as an effective opposition, Labour abstained.
Those laws now make protest illegal if police deem it causes anything other than "minor inconvenience".
A crowd outside the gates of a fracking site. A picket line. A demonstration outside the parish council. Any protest march.
These will all now be illegal, should police decide they are more than minorly inconvenient.
Ask yourself, what protest has ever fitted neatly into a working day? This government, with Labours help, has banned all protests aside from the ones they can ignore. Because that's what they intend to do: ignore the people.
A country without the right to protest is sliding from democracy to dictatorship.