#tory government

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hello and welcome to the uk is a fucking hell country, part 284829494

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Anti-monarchists receive ‘intimidatory’ Home Office letter on new protest laws

Home Office claims timing of new powers, taking effect days before king’s coronation, is coincidental

Ben Quinn, Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

Official warning letters have been sent to anti-monarchists planning peaceful protests at King Charles III’s coronation saying that new criminal offences to prevent disruption have been rushed into law.

Using tactics described by lawyers as “intimidatory”, the Home Office’s Police Powers Unit wrote to the campaign group Republic saying new powers had been brought forward to prevent “disruption at major sporting and cultural events”.

The new law, given royal assent by Charles on Tuesday, means that from Wednesday:

Protesters who block roads, airports and railways could face 12 months behind bars.

Anyone locking on to others, objects or buildings could go to prison for six months and face an unlimited fine.

Police will be able to head off disruption by stopping and searching protesters if they suspect they are setting out to cause chaos.

Jun Pang, a policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said: “Key measures in the bill will come into force just days before the coronation of King Charles – a significant event in our country’s history that is bound to inspire a wider national conversation and public protests. At the same time, the government are using a statutory instrument to bring draconian measures that the House of Lords threw out of the bill back from the dead, once again evading scrutiny and accountability.

“It’s worrying to see the police handed so many new powers to restrict protest, especially before a major national event. When the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act came into force, the police repeatedly misused them – in part because they simply did not understand them. Similarly, when Queen Elizabeth died, we saw police acting in inappropriate and heavy-handed ways towards protesters that violated their rights.”

Shami Chakrabarti, the former shadow attorney general, said: “During the passage of this illiberal and headline-grabbing legislation, ministers admitted that the new offence of ‘locking on’ is so broad as to catch peaceful protesters who link arms in public.

“Suspicionless stop and search is notorious for racial disparity and it is staggering that more of these provisions have brought into force so soon after Louise Casey’s devastating report [on the Met police]. The home secretary can blast ‘ecowarriors’ but this legislation may be used against anti-poverty and Ukraine solidarity protesters too.”

A statement from the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said: “This legislation is the latest step the government has taken against protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to deliberately delay members of the public, often preventing them from getting to work and hospital, as well as missing loved ones’ funerals.

“The range of new offences and penalties match the seriousness of the threat guerrilla tactics pose to our infrastructure, taxpayers’ money and police time.”

full article here

so just to sum this up, peaceful protesting can now land you in prison for a year and you might face an unlimited fine which i believe is up to £5000, and police can now stop and search you if they believe youre "setting out to cause chaos"

its specifically being put in place right before charles' coronation, but these are now considered criminal offenses so theyre not exclusive to it.

you know, a country where you can be put in prison for a year for peaceful protesting really doesnt sound like a fucking democracy to me.

[sspookyspoonss]

Promises Rishi Sunak could make that would be more popular than bringing back National Service:

Banning raisins

Exiling Piers Morgan

Making Greg’s sausage rolls the national dish

Revealing an alliance with Count Binface

Making all the members of the lords eat RAAC concrete each time they vote on a bill

Nuking Wolverhampton

Declare France an unsafe nation

Grant Cornish independence

Free school drinks so the UK can stay number one for child alcohol consumption

PG Tips monkey on a bank note

Ban authors making additions to their novels on Twitter

Eat out to help out that’s specifically targeting at getting women into lesbian bars

Naked calendar shoot with each Lord Justice of the UK Supreme for each month

Turing the Tory Manifesto into a Manga

Defecting to Labour

All I’m saying Rishi is if me and @livingforweevilwednesday ran your campaign you’d win the largest majority in UK history.

[anyoneknowwhatbrexitmeans]

The asylum system has been broken by the Tory Party, deliberately. It has created division and anger, probably deliberately. They created the division to gain votes, but they lost control of the narrative and the people they wanted to stir to anger.

[little-miss-dilf-lover]

be annoying, email them, pressurise them, berate them, call them out. they work for you, not the other way around

do your research, share, educate. do your part, don’t sit back and let it happen

I heard back from my towns tory MP and can’t say im not surprised

[chubsbuns]

How Much More

- CM 2024

I wrote a shitty poem about the shitty state the UK is in

(Sorry about my weird handwriting and poor spacing)

[nando161mando]

“How the Tory government rebranded protesters as extremists”

[danteskygod]

It says something about the state of the Tory government that the Prime Minister can't find anyone in his parliamentary party (currently 350 MPs) to become Foreign Secretary, so he has to enoble a disgraced former PM (is there any other kind?) in order to appoint him to the post.

Not quite sure how it works on the scrutiny side of things either. Can he even speak, or be questioned about Foreign policy in the House of Commons? If not, his deputy is going to be very busy indeed.

[thelandofbritain]

Tory-appointed 'Baroness' Mone, steeped in obscene profiteering from the Covid emergency while the rest of us struggled to survive, still hasn't been jailed yet...

...but let's hope she'll be behind bars soon.

They're closing in on you and your husband, you crooked Tory tart.

[roseliatea26]

I prefer fictional dystopias

[sspookyspoonss]

The Tory party: anti-train and anti-trans.

[anyoneknowwhatbrexitmeans]

“While racist thugs will always be with us, governments can create either an environment that curbs them, or one that encourages them. Across its 14 years in power, the Conservative government encouraged them.”

[angelholme]

The phrase "truly heinous bitch" seems apt.

To go to the most misogynistic and homophobic country in the western world and say “being gay and being a woman doesn’t necessarily mean you are in danger in some countries. It just means you are a bit of a whiner and should buck up” really is the act of a coward and the act of someone who will burn in hell.

I don't know how she sleeps at night, but at some point there will be a reckoning and she will have to face what she's done.

Until then......... I don't know how she looks in the mirror in the morning.

[guilty-feminist]

[theresastarmanwaitinginthesky008]

We’re in a cost of living crisis and our pm’s main concerns are alevels, trans people, and smoking.

[starlightandsunshine]

Tfw your government does a Thing and insists there will be absolutely no negative consequences resulting from the Thing and it will be a very good thing all around despite experts predicting there will in fact be many consequences and then the latest totally unforeseen problem arises that anyone who thinks about it for a little bit can see is totally related to the Thing but the government insists is related to anything and everything other than the Thing because if they admit that it’s related to the thing then they have to admit they made mistakes about the thing and they cannot under any circumstances ever admit that they made a mistake about anything ever for some reason that is probably ego.

Anyway this is about the fruit/veg/salad shortage and the government insisting that it’s totally bc of the weather in Spain and Morocco and absolutely not at all related to brexit no way and in fact they don’t even mention brexit at all for any reason other than to reassure everyone of the benefits (that everyone has yet to see) despite the pm arranging new talks about it with the EU and the fact that no other country in Europe has these shortages.

How does that UNO meme go?

Ah yes. Hey Tory Government in Westminster! Admit you fucked up and this is just the latest problem coming from brexit or draw 25.

I’m just tired