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    Steps towards fascism in the U.K.

    The Home Office attacking „activist lawyers“
    https://twitter.com/nearlylegal/status/1298713473698820098?s=21

    #2
    That graphic looks like the Dad's Army credits.

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      #3
      We're well on the way. Undermining the Civil Service, centralisation of power, attacks on the legal system to remove accountability and the ramping up of anti-other sentiments.

      Christ knows lawyers are easy targets.

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        #4
        This seems to be the right place to mention the Overseas Operations Bill, which would restrict prosecutions of UK armed forces for torture and war crimes abroad. Supposed to be introduced to parliament soon, apparently.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
          That graphic looks like the Dad's Army credits.
          I'm sure that's quite deliberate- awaking simple tropes of war and invasion

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            #6
            I saw the thread title and thought, "what else has happened?" (in addition to the Home Office ad)
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              #7
              Racist gangs proudly harrassing refugees


              https://twitter.com/Okwonga/status/1299313115256033282?s=20

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                #8
                That video made me feel physicallly sick. What the fuck is going on, and how are these cunts being allowed to do it without being arrested?

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                  #9
                  Have a wild guess.

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                    #10
                    You’ll be sad to hear that the young lady in the video has slipped on her sliders in Poundland and fractured her cheekbone.

                    Or so she says. I’m guessing one of her lovely gentlemen friends has given her a backhander.

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                      #11
                      The newspaper that paid the current Prime Minister over a quarter of a million pounds a year

                      https://twitter.com/hannahrosewoods/status/1299296534920671232?s=21

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                        #12
                        I see a "Government source" has had a go at loud-mouthed lawyers and barristers (apparently the one is not a subset of the other) for taking to social media to suggest, in a polite way, that the Home Office video was a fucking disgrace when they should be dealing with their clients. To which a response has, not unreasonably been, "Open the fucking Courts so we can get in front of a judge before some time next year, then."

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
                          Racist gangs proudly harrassing refugees


                          https://twitter.com/Okwonga/status/1299313115256033282?s=20
                          Britannia Hotel, Daresbury Park, Warrington, if you want to know who to complain to


                          Cheshire Police if want to know who to report it to.




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                            #14
                            Activist imprisoned before demonstrations

                            https://twitter.com/LuckyHeronSay/status/1298905791177666560?s=20

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                              #15
                              It seems that the fash are circulating addresses of hotels known to be housing migrants. You'd like to think that plod would be all over that kind of nefarious fucking shite, but...

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                                https://twitter.com/MrKRudd/status/1298976534942773250?s=20

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                                  #17
                                  He's also thicker than Iain Duncan Smith or David davies

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                                    #18
                                    Is that possible?

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                                        #20
                                        I've posted this before but this is a better thread, all bar religion and government intertwined.

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                                          #21
                                          Could add controlled opposition to that.

                                          Are we sticking to recording all the shit that's mounting up here, or is it worth discussing and <shudder> speculating? Part of me wants to talk about it, part of me thinks that would just be pornography of doom. What does everyone else think? And what can we do about it beyond looking after each other and trying to become brave and clever enough to mount some kind of effective resistance?

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                                            #22
                                            Regarding those early signs of fascism: almost all were as bad or worse under Thatcher. A lot of them were as bad under Blair. England has long been on the brink.

                                            i'd definitely add the identification of some sort of internal enemy intent on corrupting children: gays, trans ideology, sex educators, Tik Tok. But not the thousands of hours of adverts they watch. Oh no, that's for parents to manage.

                                            What worries me more is the concentration of power in the executive. Britain has no effective second parliamentary chamber; local government has been eviscerated; the checks provided by EU legislation are under threat; and now Johnson is going after the judiciary and civil service, which owe their 'independence' to a sort of gentleman's agreement that seems remarkably easy to tear up. And resistance from within the Conservative party seems to have been cowed. The 183 Tory MPs in the 2015 parliament who supported remaining in the EU have disappeared or fallen into line. Supposedly 'moderate' conservative voters dislike and distrust Johnson but turned out to vote for him anyway. Despite his bungled and murderous management of the Covid crisis, he still leads in the polls. Tory MPs growled over the Cummings affair but could not force Johnson's hand. Typically the Conservative party ends up defenestrating its own leader but with Johnson it feels as though nothing and no-one can stop him.

                                            More obviously fascistic is the defensive, inflated Tory rhetoric. In the last ten years the Tories and the old white English people who vote for them have won four general elections and three referendums, and lost nothing. But they act as though they're under siege from every possible angle. Johnson stands in front of schoolkids and tries to make out that "Is Harry Potter sexist?" is a talking point in education that the kids need to be protected from. That's the very least of it, but the image of him delivering this patronising, misleading lecture in a classroom stayed with me. Schoolchildren are going through so much at the moment, the prime minister visits and lectures them with what's basically a column in the Oldie. He never takes his eye off the audience that will keep him in power. It's unheimlich.

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                                              #23
                                              Just what we needed:

                                              Rival efforts are under way to launch a Fox News-style opinionated current affairs TV station in Britain to counter the BBC.

                                              One group is promising a news channel “distinctly different from the out-of-touch incumbents” and has already been awarded a licence to broadcast by the media regulator, Ofcom, under the name “GB News”. Its founder has said the BBC is a “disgrace” that “is bad for Britain on so many levels” and “needs to be broken up”.

                                              A rival project is being devised in the headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire by the former Fox News executive David Rhodes, although it is unclear whether it will result in a traditional TV channel or be online-only.

                                              Both are pitching to a perceived gap in the market for opinionated video output fuelled by growing distrust of the BBC among some parts of its audience, especially on the political right over culture war issues such as Brexit and whether Rule, Britannia! should be sung at the Last Night of the Proms.


                                              https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-station-in-uk

                                              Obviously, this will greatly improve the quality of journalistic discourse in Britain. The BBC will doubtlessly respond to a challenge from the gutter-right by providing high quality, impartial and balanced news. No way it would be dragged further and further to the trash heap.

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
                                                Racist gangs proudly harrassing refugees


                                                https://twitter.com/Okwonga/status/1299313115256033282?s=20
                                                Christ, that's horrendous.

                                                I used to work with asylum seekers living in temporary accommodation, who were waiting for the Home Office to make a decision on their status. It was the most rewarding, yet at times distressing, job I've ever had. Those families in that hotel will have been shunted around several times already and will be moved again into the private sector before long. The quality of some of the accommodation they move into then, is positively Dickensian.

                                                To be fair to the Police around that area (GMP & Cheshire) they always responded quickly to reports of any harassment service users were subjected to. One would hope in this instance those scum bags are charged and served with restraining orders.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Close to home for me, but what's happening to the Civil Service is sinister. Some may argue it never really provided an effective check or balance on government policy anyway, particularly in the Home Office recently, but at least a layer of significant administrative and legal expertise existed that could whistle through its teeth and say "you don't really want to try and do that, Minister". Now, whole Departments are going to be taken over by executive appointments with a sole remit to drive through what the Minister has been told they want, how they think they want it, no matter how stupid or damaging the idea.
                                                  Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 29-08-2020, 08:42.

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