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mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

  • For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison.
  • For hanging a banner reading “Just Stop Oil” off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence.
  • Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been arrested.

They are among hundreds of environmental activists arrested for peaceful demonstrations in the U.K., where tough new laws restrict the right to protest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-right-to-protest-is-under-threat-in-britain-undermining-a-pillar-of-democracy/ar-AA1m26Jq?diaspora

#Britain #fascism #UK #Democracy #dystopian #protest #CivilRights #HumanRights #ToryFascism #authoritarian #UnitedKingdom #DemocracyNOW #ToryScum #capitalism #CapitalismFail

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digit@iviv.hu
Digit

#averybrittishgenocide
since cant see these two posts from here, re-posting already reshared (from another instance (sorry, cant get diaspora links to work for this from here.. https://nerdpol.ch/posts/11263484 & https://nerdpol.ch/posts/11102895 )), manually:

colinroyhunter@pluspora.com
Colin-Roy Hunter - about a year ago
Why are so many #Brits apathetic or so sure that their tiny lives are all there is to existence? Most are incapable of agapē (love-in-action) for anyone outside their circle of loved-ones. Egotistic and selfish to their very cores. Hence why #BREXIT came to pass and why all kinds of #hate, hatefulness & hate-crime are flourishing. #Fascism, or at least some kind of ultra-right-wing #totalitarianism is now the one-way street along which these once great isles are now travelling. #Fairness, #Justice, #Equity have all been sacrificed so that Brits do not have to think: think for themselves; distracting themselves at every opportunity so they do not need to think whatsoever. Unthinkingly, Brits have placed themselves in a gaol with nought but gruel to sustain us. I recall #AllegoryOfTheCave from #Plato’s #Republic. Wake up #Britain: let us be known as #GreatBritain once more!

“[T]he other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

colinroyhunter@pluspora.com
Colin-Roy Hunter - about a year ago
I am one of the 2,000,000 disabled individuals who received zero #UKgov support.

Under the #Covid19 #pandemic #Lockdown, “The Government was so scared of what people might think, suddenly forced to live on so little, that they gave basic benefits a little boost during this time, by £20 per week (£1,040 a year), up from around £70 in normal times. But they didn’t add this extra cash to old-school benefits. Two million #disabled people didn’t get anything extra. Determined to push people on to #UniversalCredit (#UC), and citing creaky old computer systems for the old-style benefits, the Government said it couldn’t be done.”

#DWP #DWPfail

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dis-life-what-exactly-government-27768188?fbclid=IwAR1ec-YvzPPZIQc_ya0xJQvbB_QvUV7xb3ot565a-suJ9mJw47K7nqiB9s8

I am one of the 2,000,000 disabled individuals who received zero #U...

I am one of the 2,000,000 disabled individuals who received zero #UKgov support. Under the #Covid19 #pandemic #Lockdown, “The Government was so scared of what people might think, suddenly forced to live on so little, that they gave basic benefits...

aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Britain’s Charles III gives first King’s Speech as monarch

It was a day of pomp and ceremony in London for King Charles III.The King's speech laid out the pre-election agenda for the conservative government, formally...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Britain #Britishmonarchy #KingCharlesIII #PrimeMinisterRishiSunak #RishiSunak #Royaldiplomacy #UK #UKmonarchy #UKparliament #UnitedKingdom #firstopeningaddressofparliament #pompandceremonyinLondon #preelectionagendainKingCharlesIIIspeech
Britain’s Charles III gives first King’s Speech as monarch

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#CraigMurray, defender of Julian #Assange, detained under #Britain’s anti-terror laws

source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/18/qkvf-o18.html

The #HumanRights activist and former British diplomat was detained and questioned under the Prevention of #Terrorism Act at #Glasgow #Airport on Monday.

Craig Murray seeks UN #protection in #Switzerland against British #police - state #persecution

source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/27/taez-o27.html

#wikileaks #law #justice #orwell #1984 #terror #security #democracy #problem #news #UNO #politics

Craig Murray, defender of Julian Assange, detained under Britain’s anti-terror laws

Murray’s interrogation has an unmistakable meaning: domestic opposition to Israel’s war of annihilation against the Palestinians in Gaza is being criminalised.

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Farhad A

After #Gueterres words, the Israeli Foreign Minister demanded the resignation of the #UN Secretary General and unilaterally canceled his meeting with him.

“He does not represent the most important members of the UN, certainly not the #US, #Germany, #France or #Britain, which have supported Israel,” he said.

He also said that “obviously, we are going to have to reconsider our entire relationship with the United Nations.”

“We have been complaining for some time about how the UN and its representatives act in Israel, distorting reality.

They do not report what is really happening, they take things out of context, they refuse to verify our reports of terrorist attacks (…) and they take the words of #Hamas as if they were the word of God,” he added.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

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joseph_teller@diaspora.glasswings.com
Joseph Teller

HS2: The UK's Insane $130 BILLION Money Pit

Explore the shocking story of HS2, Britain's ambitious high-speed rail project gone wrong. Initially projected at £40 billion but now nearing £100 billion, this video dives into the expensive mistakes, political interference, and inflated costs that led to the project's downfall. Discover the reasons behind the UK's struggle to build cost-effective infrastructure and why HS2 became a symbol of this issue. Join us on a journey through the highs and lows of this infrastructure nightmare, and find out what lessons can be learned from this expensive ordeal. Don't miss this eye-opening analysis of Britain's infrastructure challenges!

A Look Into the White Elephant Of English High Speed Rail

#Megaprojects #HS2 #HighSpeedRail #UK #Britain #BreakfastVideo

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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Can Rishi Sunak's economic plans bring change to the UK? | Counting the Cost

Rishi Sunak was seen as the British prime minister who would steady the ship after the economic turmoil of Liz Truss.But almost a year after he took office, ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #britain #business #conservativeparty #countingthecost #economy #latestnews #newsheadlines #politics #rishisunak #uk #unitedkingdom
Can Rishi Sunak's economic plans bring change to the UK? | Counting the Cost

mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

'Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation's Roof Crumbling Down'

The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’

The scandal is just the most obvious example of the reckless and self-defeating approach taken by this Government to the public sector.

Since 2010, it has cut infrastructure spending as a share of GDP by a third as a part of Osborne’s supposed plan to “fix the roof” of the nation’s public finances.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/austerity-is-a-false-economy-that-has-brought-the-nations-roof-crumbling-down/

#BylineTimes #austerity #ToryLies #ToryIncompetence #UK #Tories #Dystopia #Dystopic #Britain #schools #buildings #ToryCorruption #corruption #concrete #Raac #corruption

'Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation's Roof Crumbling Down' – Byline Times

The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to 'fix the roof while the sun was shining'

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Assange is Still an Ecuadorian Citizen

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9lI3FXQGOG4
Assange & Ecuador: The Back Story

"British police personnel entered absolutely without authorization. I want to emphasize that Assange is still Ecuadorian.
They wanted to annul the nationality & so far we are defending it, defending him, who is still Ecuadorian. His nationality has not been withdrawn."
In 2019 the ombudsman of Ecuador declared the expulsion of Julian Assange from the London embassy illegal

#julianassange #joelauria #cathyvogan #carlospoveda #aitorxmartinez #lawyer #ecuador #illegal #extradition #dueprocess #humanrights #us #britain #uk #joserivera #rafaelcorrea #wikileaks #journalism #freepress #freeassange #vivaecuador

Assange Still an Ecuadorian Citizen

Update from #Assange's Ecuadorian lawyer Aitor Martinez on the legality of his arrest & expulsion from the London embassy. He tweeted: "The court that judges the suspension of Julian Assange's Ecuadorian citizenship on the day he was handed over...

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

#Britain’s second-largest city effectively declares itself bankrupt amid $950 million equal pay claims.

#Birmingham City Council, which provides services for more than one million people, filed a Section 114 notice on Tuesday, halting all spending except on essential services.

#UK #Capitalism #Brexit #Economy
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/economy/birmingham-council-bankrupt-uk-gbr-intl/index.html

Britain's second-largest city effectively declares itself bankrupt amid $950 million equal pay claims | CNN Business

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