catinstalbans
Well-known member
We already know that we have a corrupt and lying Prime Minister. A sycophantic collection of oligarchic minions allowed to break the law as they choose enriching family, friends and donors with government contracts worth millions of taxpayers money. An attitude that they can do what they like such as holding drunken Christmas parties with games and nibbles, while the unimportant citizens while people died alone in hospital, sons and daughters unable to hold the hands of their parents in the last hours, elderly relatives unable to be visited by their grandchildren.
We have an institutionally corrupt Met Police deliberately turning a blind eye to the crimes of the government
But it gets worse!
The government is now planning to:
Make protests illegal at the whim of the police for being noisy
Give the Home Secretary the power to determine what is the definition of "serious disruption to the life of the community" or "serious disruption to the activities of an organisation". Effectively this means they can ban any protest they don't like.
Make attending a peaceful protest a jailable offence,
Make publicising a protest a jailable offence
Make the historical protest acts of chaining oneself to objects favoured by suffragettes or its modern equivalent glueing oneself to the highway jailable.
They have already removed the right to be tried by jury for such protests, thus circumventing the inconvenience of having protests deemed justifiable under the law.
But that is not all.
The Borders and Nationality bill allows the removal of British Citizenship without notice at the whim of the government effectively denying the right to appeal. This sends a stark message to the British born children of foreign parents that they are different and second class members of society. It is intolerable that the Government Minister can now decide what constitutes a serious enough crime to remove nationality from a person who has only lived in the UK and is to that extent as British as you or I.
It also proposes in one of the most inhuman acts seen in British Law to make the saving of lives at sea a criminal offence and to protect government agents from prosecution should their actions result in loss of life. This contravenes not only International Law but common humanity.
But that is not all!
Now Boris Johnson wants government ministers to have the right to overturn judgements from the court if they don't like the findings. From independent judiciary to Fascism in one simple step.
But that is not all!
Removal of an independent media, the BBC has already had all its top positions filled with Tory backers,
Ofcom and Channel 4 are set to follow
Local authorities all know that to get funding from this government it helps to agree with whatever the minister wishes, or even better have a government minister as your MP.
Peerages while not freely available are known to cost a £3m donation to party coffers,
It is following the pattern of Putin's corrupt oligarchy to a tee.
Demonisation of opposing opinions whether that be Labour, migrants, the EU, or the French
Taking control of the media
Weakening of any independent legislature
Criminalisation of dissenters.
Perhaps it is not so surprising that so much Russian money has found its way into Tory coffers after all.
The irony is that the loudest proclaimers of democracy on this board seem so complacent about the path to autocracy that this government is taking us. They even want to scrap the Human Rights Act to which I would ask the question. Just which human right is not justifiable?
We have an institutionally corrupt Met Police deliberately turning a blind eye to the crimes of the government
But it gets worse!
The government is now planning to:
Make protests illegal at the whim of the police for being noisy
Give the Home Secretary the power to determine what is the definition of "serious disruption to the life of the community" or "serious disruption to the activities of an organisation". Effectively this means they can ban any protest they don't like.
Make attending a peaceful protest a jailable offence,
Make publicising a protest a jailable offence
Make the historical protest acts of chaining oneself to objects favoured by suffragettes or its modern equivalent glueing oneself to the highway jailable.
They have already removed the right to be tried by jury for such protests, thus circumventing the inconvenience of having protests deemed justifiable under the law.
But that is not all.
The Borders and Nationality bill allows the removal of British Citizenship without notice at the whim of the government effectively denying the right to appeal. This sends a stark message to the British born children of foreign parents that they are different and second class members of society. It is intolerable that the Government Minister can now decide what constitutes a serious enough crime to remove nationality from a person who has only lived in the UK and is to that extent as British as you or I.
It also proposes in one of the most inhuman acts seen in British Law to make the saving of lives at sea a criminal offence and to protect government agents from prosecution should their actions result in loss of life. This contravenes not only International Law but common humanity.
But that is not all!
Now Boris Johnson wants government ministers to have the right to overturn judgements from the court if they don't like the findings. From independent judiciary to Fascism in one simple step.
But that is not all!
Removal of an independent media, the BBC has already had all its top positions filled with Tory backers,
Ofcom and Channel 4 are set to follow
Local authorities all know that to get funding from this government it helps to agree with whatever the minister wishes, or even better have a government minister as your MP.
Peerages while not freely available are known to cost a £3m donation to party coffers,
It is following the pattern of Putin's corrupt oligarchy to a tee.
Demonisation of opposing opinions whether that be Labour, migrants, the EU, or the French
Taking control of the media
Weakening of any independent legislature
Criminalisation of dissenters.
Perhaps it is not so surprising that so much Russian money has found its way into Tory coffers after all.
The irony is that the loudest proclaimers of democracy on this board seem so complacent about the path to autocracy that this government is taking us. They even want to scrap the Human Rights Act to which I would ask the question. Just which human right is not justifiable?
No it doesn’t.
