• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    too little scrutiny from the country’s elected representatives

    More like too little scrutiny of the Tories who have always fought tooth and nail against the right to protest

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s long dead. Thankfully (sort of), our police force is a bunch of untrained sex offenders so a medium size crowd is basically unstoppable.

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      6 months ago

      In other parts of the world, they’re not much better, but they’re all given guns!

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    6 months ago

    Wow, I was out of the loop of what was happening in Britain. These laws (already in place) are really scary, and shameful imo. These days it feels like the heartbeat of democracy is barely still beating

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    6 months ago

    Fashy ass Britain, and you guys don’t even have knives let alone guns to show the government that you are tired of their shit.