prince phillip is dead and the newsreader was like “this has come as a shock to many” babe where have you BEEN
The UK government passed the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill today, which gives police massive control over protests… including preventing them if they’re too ‘annoying’ or ‘noisy’ (even if it’s only a single protester). It also effectively criminalises the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller lifestyles, and recommends 10 year prison sentences for statue vandals.
The bill passed on the same day as the government announces the abandoning of all Covid precautions, where Boris Johnson basically stood up in front of the country and said ‘yeah more people will die, but yeah… money. Do whatever the hell you want and fuck collective responsibility, every man for himself’.
Thereby COMPLETELY ignoring SAGE, the scientific experts who advise the government, who have warned that variants that are resistant to the vaccine might develop.
And all of this isn’t even mentioning the Electoral Integrity Bill that was also read today, which is looking to introduce voter ID to prevent fraud… THERE IS NO WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD IN THE UK. 4 people were convicted, and 2 people were cautioned by police in the last election.
6 people.
Out of roughly 47 MILLION people of voting age.
It’s just a move to disenfranchise voters.
Every day this hellhole just gets worse.
Note how the outrage about Sarah Everard was all deemed legitimate in the beginning, when the conversation was all about women being able to go out late and men holding men accountable, etc. These discussions are relevant, but they don't change the status quo.
The second the discussion started to involve criticism of the police, as soon as it became clear that this was not just a concern of white liberals, then suddenly the police behaviour at the vigil was deemed totally appropriate and much of the media lost their appetite to talk about it.
remember to regularly change your pronouns, for security reasons.
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”
— James Connolly, on the visit of George V to Ireland
it’s very inch resting to me that mainstream british media is trying soooo hard to make us feel sorry for cops when theyre the ones quite literally out there assaulting and murdering women and disrupting vigils and turning protests violent. fucking choke
on the left: police escort football fans through glasgow city centre, march 7th 2021
on the right: police disrupt a peaceful vigil commemorating a victim of police violence against women, march 13th 2021 (x)
Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change
jewishvoiceforpeace: This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
We demand a ceasefire now to save lives. To stop a genocide. The Israeli military has already erased 47 entire Palestinian families from Gaza's population registry; all members of the family, from all generations, are dead. This is loss beyond measure.
The U.S. is also responsible for this horror. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called to do everything we can to stop this genocide.
As we continue to demand a ceasefire and fight for a future where everyone is free and equal and safe, we refuse to forget these lives. We will always affirm that every life is precious.
Every single one of these deaths was preventable. When we say Never Again-for anyone, this is who we mean. Never Again is right now.
Source: Gaza Ministry of Health