Now Labour has legitimized the proscription of non-terrorist organisations that embarrass it you have to wonder what fun future Governments will have with the practice.
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First steps on a very slippery slope. Just like Cameron is seen as the person who allowed Brexit to happen, Starmer will in future be seen as the person who facilitated authoritarianism/fascism in the UK (if it doesn’t already happen during his stint as PM…).
jul 19, 2025, 5:25 pm • 21 3 • view
It is happening. We have a far-right govt.
jul 19, 2025, 6:19 pm • 11 1 • view
It was the Torons who started the authoritarianism re protests.
jul 19, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course but that was not my point, which still stands. It was UKIP, Eurosceptics etc who started and drove through Brexit but it was Cameron who ultimately facilitated it.
jul 19, 2025, 6:02 pm • 3 0 • view
It was indeed but Starmer has insisted on being them and worse.
jul 19, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
What's to stop any current / future Gov proscribing the opposition party (whoever it is) .. or does being the 'Official Opposition' give them an opt out? What a ridiculous situation and waste of police resources we see in the news today
jul 19, 2025, 7:05 am • 4 0 • view
Meanwhile, we send weapons to Israel and fund illegal settlements in the West Bank. Pretty sure the Labour Government more closely meets any normal definition of 'support for terrorism' than those it arrested.
jul 19, 2025, 4:41 pm • 336 73 • view
Has Starmer forgotten all his legal training?
jul 19, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure how much 'Starmer' there is left; he's a largely hollowed our glove puppet for Blue Labour.
jul 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 5 0 • view
But his dad was a toolmaker...
jul 19, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/lghr...
jul 20, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Let's be honest, the UK is a fascist, terrorist state.
jul 19, 2025, 5:40 pm • 2 0 • view
By any sane definition.
jul 19, 2025, 4:44 pm • 14 1 • view
I wonder why? www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...
jul 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
😳
jul 20, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolute joke. All cos Donnie insisted.
jul 19, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
F***ing disgrace
jul 20, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
D'ya know that GB refused to criminalize anarchists for their ideology at the turn of the 20th century when gathering with other European nations? (Sure, later Churchill burned anarchists alive, but that's another story) It seems the UK is regressing past the 19th century.
jul 19, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
putin's nazi tory puppets started it, nazi labour are just carrying it on.
jul 20, 2025, 8:59 am • 1 0 • view
Warming up the tactic for Farage to designate LGBTQ groups and pro immigrant groups as terrorist orgs like Russia.
jul 19, 2025, 5:32 pm • 94 11 • view
I wouldn't automatically assume Labour will wait for Farage.
jul 19, 2025, 6:07 pm • 80 4 • view
Sadly, this.
jul 19, 2025, 6:12 pm • 4 1 • view
I'm expecting first they'll block trans inclusive orgs from applying for statutory funding. Then strip their non-profit status.
jul 19, 2025, 6:15 pm • 3 1 • view
Then they'll declare trans rights activists are terrorists & arrest them. Anyone speaking for trans rights will risk arrest, then anyone who's ever spoken for trans rights will be taken in for questioning. This is how they will shut down voices they don't want to hear. Little steps, bit by bit.
jul 19, 2025, 7:30 pm • 7 0 • view
Can't wait for Keir to determine that he needs to outflank Reform once again because clarity
jul 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 6 1 • view
Knowing Labour they will probably do it before reform does.
jul 20, 2025, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
oh I don't think labour will want to leave that for reform to do.
jul 19, 2025, 5:56 pm • 4 0 • view
They all say they don't want to be like Russia then they conduct politics and business as slimy and corrupt as anyone over there.
jul 19, 2025, 6:08 pm • 6 0 • view
Oligarchs gonna oligarch.
jul 19, 2025, 7:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Starmer's got 4 years to get there first
jul 19, 2025, 6:26 pm • 4 0 • view
When to think outside the box, makes you stand inside a cell. That is the measure of poor government.
jul 19, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 1 • view
Exactly right.
jul 20, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Has Diane Abbott been proscribed yet?
jul 19, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't give them ideas!
jul 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Would that be racist, anti-racist, anti-anti-racist, or anti-anti-anti-racist? I’m losing count.
jul 19, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Jenrick to prescribe cartoon characters?
jul 19, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
whne i become pm i will proscribe labour
jul 19, 2025, 5:07 pm • 3 0 • view
And the tories, libdems and reform
jul 19, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Proscription in the Roman interpretation of the word.
jul 19, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
As usual, the law is not justice. What a waste of our money.
jul 19, 2025, 5:53 pm • 4 0 • view
None. If anyone has any sense it'll get chucked in the bin where it belongs, and Starmer with it.
jul 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Thin end of the wedge.
jul 19, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Shocking but not surprised as England still has a Fecking mandate over the 6 counties ¡
jul 20, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
They people whom you are not allowed to criticise.....are the people who actually control you......! Sad.
jul 19, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re tired of silence. Help us survive, help us feed our children. One piece of bread can bring life back to them. #GazaVoicesMatter #HelpGazaChildren #OneBreadCanSave #GazaRelief
jul 19, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
The door is truly wide open for more abuse
jul 19, 2025, 5:00 pm • 2 0 • view
In the 90s, I innocently wandered into a London pub where there were a lot of Irish flags and someone came round collecting for "the cause." I think we somehow weathered that storm without sending people done for 14 years.
jul 19, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
"We suspect that progress pride flag badge means you support the banned gender ideology,you're nicked sonny" UK,2027.. probably.
jul 19, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
By the time they start killing us, the bootlickers will say we deserve it because we're terrorists or terrorist sympathisers.
jul 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 1 • view
The Labour “Fiends” of Israel?
jul 19, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Because nothing says ‘terrorist’ more than an 81 year old woman, a former Magistrate, from Cornwall who was subsequently arrested.
jul 19, 2025, 9:20 pm • 7 0 • view
Meanwhile, fash supporters get away with rioting outside hotels homing migrants.
jul 19, 2025, 4:56 pm • 14 1 • view
I was talking to @sophiemolly.co.uk interesting that none of the organisations that had members who attacked migrants last year were proscribed ...
jul 20, 2025, 1:56 am • 12 2 • view
What an appalling waste fo Police time. It's setting out on the road to ICE. I'd call it SLUSH atm. More sinister is what Jolyon calls out: this is a despots charter.
jul 20, 2025, 9:42 am • 2 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 9:44 am • 1 0 • view
Is this a sign of how they will deal with us in Scotland who support Independence. Will they copy the actions of the Spanish Gov towards the Catalan Politicians.
jul 19, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Scottish Police at the #palestine demo in Edinburgh today were very professional, not aware of any arrests despite some provocative T-shirt wearing at Bute House
jul 19, 2025, 6:05 pm • 8 3 • view
Farage would send the army in, in a heartbeat.
jul 19, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
What makes you think Bro Nigel Farage has a heart?
jul 19, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Could we be arrested for protesting the arrest of the protestors arrested for protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action and the arrest of some of its members? I plan to be at trans pride London. If I wore my keffiyeh I have had since 1995 is that an arrestable offence?
jul 19, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Keffiyehs shouldn't be in and of itself. Folk had them at Brighton Trans Pride yesterday with no problems, even with the odd pro-Palestine chants. Not to say that the plod won't take it upon themselves to abuse their power. Just be careful with any signs/chants. PS. This is NOT legal advice obvs!😁
jul 20, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
Good advice thank you. Acknowledged that it isn’t legal advice.
jul 20, 2025, 11:46 am • 1 0 • view
The dangerous idiots destroying this country are in Parliament, not Parliament Square.
jul 19, 2025, 4:36 pm • 23 2 • view
Sometimes I really wish you could prosecute political parties under the Trades Description Act. Labour are utterly horrific now. What's sad is that this could have been avoided.
jul 19, 2025, 4:39 pm • 12 0 • view