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Leicester police ‘blanket arrest’ journalists under Terrorism Act for covering protest at Israeli drone factory (www.middleeasteye.net)
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From the perspective of the US the nice thing about being on a sinking ship on fire is the UK is also sinking and on fire nearby from the same calamity so you can amuse yourself by making bets on the horse race of it.

It is like how if the Titanic sank next to another ship sinking from hitting an iceberg it would have made the experience a lot less depressing and lonely for the people on the Titanic.

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[–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Guys, do your own homework and stop copying ours.

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    • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    The trouble with the Labour / Tory / Reform situation is that we only have the choice of either sliding towards fascism or goose-stepping towards it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    What's the alternative? LibDems?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    ...or the Greens.

    Honestly, though, I think the best way to curb it is through electoral reform.

    Things go downhill fast when a single party is in charge. The Tory coalitions were bad, but not half as bad as when they had a majority.

    Proportional Representation would make it harder for a single party to ruin things for everyone.

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    [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fascists arrest journalists for covering anti-fascist protest at fascist military factory.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    It took a while for me to believe there was an israeli drone factory in Leicester.

    But the reporters were released and published their own story about this.

    So also see these:

    https://www.leicester.news/we-were-arrested-under-the-terrorism-act-for-doing-our-jobs/

    https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/35-people-arrested-after-protest-11190724

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Terrorists arrest people accused of supporting terrorism falsely

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