2w ago

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

www.theguardian.com

Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti-protest powers

Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.

The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site.

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2w ago

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2025/oct/05/police-to-get-new-powers-to-crack-down-on-repeated-protests-says-home-office

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More fascism.
- You don’t like, then maybe you should lawfully protest.
- UK in a few years:
  
  It just says failed to load media for me, is that on purpose or is my client failing me?
And they were accusing protestors of taking police resources away from protecting synagogues after the Manchester terror attack. While they've been arresting old and disabled people for holding fucking signs.
This Labour government continues to hit new lows, they have honestly become worse than the Tories where civil liberties are concerned. They will do anything to protect Israel. They don't work for the British people, they work for Tel Aviv.
- Well, the actual individuals in Government in the UK right now were literally given their position by Israel when Israel-linked Jewish Organisations in the UK spearheaded a campaign of slandering Corbyn and the Labour Party under his leadership as "anti-semitic", directly leading to his resignation and replacement with these people.
  In the First Past The Post anti-Democratic voting system in Britain, leadership of the Labour Party means an almost certainty of getting into Government in the next 8 years, hence how Israel put them in power in the UK by giving them the Labour leadership.
  Israel bought them and (pretty much the only positive thing about these people) they stayed bought.
Why are the US and UK governments so against anti -Israel priests? It seems like more than generic "down with democracy and liberals," or fascist ruler buddies looking out for each other, or the IDF training police. Is there a direct line of profit and/or power from Israel to the US and UK?
- Until recently any word against Israel was met with the antisemitism hammer. I don't think they realise how outdated that view is.
  Their hands are deep in the cookie jar. They've been supplying arms for 50+ years. "You weren't meant to kill people with them!"
  Trump in particular doesn't really care. All he sees is an opportunity to make money rebuilding Gaza.
  U.K. leadership has a real problem standing in opposition to Trump. They'll insult him in private, but whisper sweet nothings into his ear when in person. They think they're being clever. They're not.
Britain takes another goose step into authoritarianism...
Zionists are extremely effective at controlling information.
They can't tolerate people sharing the truth.
One of the hopes for a Labour government was that they would roll back the restrictions on our right to protest…
Oil! You got a loiscense for that there protest? No? Oill 'Ave to arrest yeh!
5th of November is a month away, just putting it out there.
I think the Met needs to ask themselves if they are police or government goons. Police can choose what they feel they need to enforce if they are concerned about escalating a situation.
Interesting note: I saw the chair of the Met Police Federation was saying that officers are sick of the position they have been put in and is calling for politicians and senior officers to sort it out.
Today the home office says "go harder!".

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