Welcome to the Labour police state

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• kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As American, I’m always so glad to see our cousins across the water follow our inane footsteps. Cheers Brits!

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cross Atlantic solidarity against fascism 🤝

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brexit? They were first.

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• inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Always have been a police state, anti terrorism laws are ALWAYS used to silence ‘dissident’ voices

  From 5 July 2025, it is an offence under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 to be a member of Palestine Action,[7] fundraise for it,[8][9] wear or display items arousing reasonable suspicion of membership,[10] or if someone invites support or even “expresses an opinion or belief supportive of” Palestine Action “reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support” it.[11] These offences carry a maximum penalty of up to 14 years in prison for membership or inviting support, and up to 6 months in prison or a fine for displaying supporting items.[7][10][11][9]

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is Palestine Action a specific movement/group or is palestine Action literally just supporting Palestine? Asking from a non UK perspective.

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren’t their biggest fans.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a group but of course considering the name they will be easier able to charge anyone supporting Palestine

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    • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a specific group that was proscribed after breaking into RAF Brize Norton and vandalizing tankers.

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    • inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It uses Direct Action which are methods that governments tend to associate with terrorism

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• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even if they were trying to use this sort of rule with wholesome intentions, I’m not sure how targeting groups by name instead of deed makes sense. It’s like doing a healthy diet by giving up Coca-Cola by name even though Pepsi and RC have the same nutritional profile and availability. Enjoy the Whack-a-mole game!

  Taken to its logical conclusion, someone should start a pro-Palestinian squad and call it the Reform Party.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The group in question broke onto an airbase and put a couple of RAF planes out of action. They crossed a red line for the government.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let’s hope the UK citizens prove less cowardly than the US ones.

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  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have a lot of trust in people who voted to isolate themselves from their biggest allies and trading partners just a couple years ago.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      took me a minute before i realized the US only did that months ago instead of years

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t see how relevant that is here. Arguably the EU is supporting Israel’s genocide.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Hollywood level politics. Just shut up

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  • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    X to doubt. The UK threw out due process a long time ago, wave the ‘terrorism’ tag and egregiously Orwellian policies become law:

    • Legalized warrantless arrest and imprisonment of suspects without trial or warrant for 28 days
    • Permits freezing of a suspects assets without trial
    • Allows unlimited imprisonment of foreigners suspected of terrorism without trial
    • Military police permitted to operate on UK soil openly, even for non terrorism reasons
    • TPIM orders without trial that permits electronic tagging, travel bans, limited house arrest, curfews and constant monitoring.

    And all that’s before we even talk about the recent Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act nonsense.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The British haven’t been too good at protesting in the past

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    • john_lemmy@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Arguably not in the recent past, but let us not forget that the suffragettes were very committed protesters. They did more than just organize symbolic protests though. They also carried out bombings and arson campaigns and one of them ended up cutting Winston Churchill’s face with a dogwhip.

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    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      London really showed up for the Palestine protests a couple weeks ago

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    • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Basically not since the 18th century really.

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least they have Corbyn daring to do what Sanders does not.

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Fuck you, government.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  US does police state better.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i bet my police state could beat up your police state

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes yes. We do a big police deathmatch between the US and UK. All the cops of both countries in one huge brawl. Whoever comes out alive gets the trophy and a twenty dollar gift card for a Fast Food restaurant of their choice.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    US is Judge Dredd.

    UK is 1984.

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    • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apt considering the setting

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  • clockworkrat@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does it different. In the US the violence is more up front. Here it’s done through mechanisms of the state.

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  • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Germany does it the best

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Germany we are at a point where it’s difficult to identity antisemitism became everyone who doesn’t actively support the genocide in Gaza is called an antisemite

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We did it the best from 1933-1945, but currently we are nowhere near the american police state.

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    • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not to defend Germany, but given their relative size of prison populations, and number of citizens extra judicially killed by law enforcement. The US is, measurably, the worse of the two.

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• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They could just say I support Palestine and be fine.

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• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Brits need to make like the French and lop heads off until they have something resembling a functional democracy.

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  • klu9@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Executioner with head of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland

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

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah interesting how our first attempt at democracy. Was started by and failed due to. Religious fundamentalism.

      Given only wealthy land owners could vote. Hardly democracy.

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  • john_lemmy@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And we should probably consider the very wealth as an aristocracy of sorts for that to be effective.

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• WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some Aussie comedian on KGB News has just said that the disabled should be shot or starved into work …but a few people holding signs is the problem. How baffling.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s so much easier for the frog to not realize it’s being boiled in the UK because there’s no solidified constitution to point to

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.

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    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can verify : am frog

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