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A wonderful way to take the heat off partygate and get us talking about something else. I bet the MP was put up to this stunt by Johnson or croniesChadwick wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24 2022 7:36pmThis was a bizarre story in the Mail on Sunday (link to BBC report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61208037)
Some Tory MPs claimed that Boris Johnson can't concentrate when he sees a woman crossing her legs. And somehow they thought that was a show of support for him.
Less bizarre is that the Mail managed to turn this into a story from just beneath the bottom of the barrel.
https://westcountryvoices.co.uk/fascism ... g-rapidly/Richard Murphy wrote:Last night saw fascism make big advances in the UK. Because, it would seem, Labour could not be bothered to call in all its working peers to vote in the Lords, the Tories won a whole series of victories on Bills where the Lords had previously inflicted defeat on them.
As a result, the government now has control of the Electoral Commission. In other words, there is now no independent agency required to uphold electoral law and democracy in the UK. Instead, the government can now decide what is fair, and no one can object.
Second, laws on voter registration went through. Supposedly dealing with the almost unknown crime of fraudulent voting, the reality is that these laws are intended to effectively remove the right to vote from those who do not need and so do not have forms of photographic ID. They, of course, are almost invariably the least well off, who are least likely to vote Tory. In effect, a property requirement has now been reintroduced into the right to vote in the UK, pushing us back more than a century and representing the first reverse on this issue since the expansion of the franchise began in 1832.
Third, our right to protest about this was removed. We can now only protest if we do not cause offence to anyone when doing so, which is the whole point of protest. We must now, quite literally, be silent.
These are not laws any party or government committed to democracy would promote. They are fascist in their intent. They will be fascist in their consequences.
Unfortunately, it seems nobody cares.... everyone is too distracted by the bread and circuses of the media. The UK populace have no experience of living in a fascist state where your rights are so limited that you effectively have none.... and they are at the whim of some bureaucrat whose you cannot elect or dismiss.Sarah wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28 2022 11:47am"Fascism is advancing, rapidly"
https://westcountryvoices.co.uk/fascism ... g-rapidly/Richard Murphy wrote:Last night saw fascism make big advances in the UK. Because, it would seem, Labour could not be bothered to call in all its working peers to vote in the Lords, the Tories won a whole series of victories on Bills where the Lords had previously inflicted defeat on them.
As a result, the government now has control of the Electoral Commission. In other words, there is now no independent agency required to uphold electoral law and democracy in the UK. Instead, the government can now decide what is fair, and no one can object.
Second, laws on voter registration went through. Supposedly dealing with the almost unknown crime of fraudulent voting, the reality is that these laws are intended to effectively remove the right to vote from those who do not need and so do not have forms of photographic ID. They, of course, are almost invariably the least well off, who are least likely to vote Tory. In effect, a property requirement has now been reintroduced into the right to vote in the UK, pushing us back more than a century and representing the first reverse on this issue since the expansion of the franchise began in 1832.
Third, our right to protest about this was removed. We can now only protest if we do not cause offence to anyone when doing so, which is the whole point of protest. We must now, quite literally, be silent.
These are not laws any party or government committed to democracy would promote. They are fascist in their intent. They will be fascist in their consequences.
The poster is on the right side of the law. But if they had stood in the road and said the same thing they could have been arrested by the police and face a hefty fine under the new law regarding peaceful protests.
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