Prof Peter Hallward, of Kingston University, one of dozens of academic signatories of the statement, said: “The UK is now perilously close to full descent into authoritarian rule. Ministers won’t even meet with hunger strikers who are now at death’s door. [They] seem perfectly ready to let this country’s most committed and courageous opponents of an ongoing genocide waste away and die.”
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These protestors must be at the physiological limit for hunger striking. I'm not sure how it's humanly possible unless there is some technicality like doctors giving them a drip with vitamins, etc. I believe at this point one of them has outlived Bobby Sands' hunger strike duration by 2 or 3 weeks.
On a guardian podcast they mentioned these hunger strikers literally starving to death were brought up with labor mp's, and they laughed.
This labor government is fascist, they've done more damage in their short time in power than the Tories did their entire time in control. Including cancelling jury trials for up to 3 years in prison changed from 1 which was done in 2020. Illegalizing protests not favored by politicians, bad faith terrorism designations to help actual fascists based on bad faith arguments, accusing people protesting the same thing but not mentioning the proscribed group of supporting terror. Proscribed says israel bad, you said israel bad, you are terrorist reasoning.
They created a masterbaitorbase, to protect the kids they connect every ip and account to id and likeness, in a database silicon valley, and by extension the US government, and other intelligence agencies will also get, to connect everything everyone says, does, looks at, to them and put ai into making half baked assumptions, and social scores to secretly use based on that information in a way people will not be informed of and therefore have no way of challenging.
Age checks and child porn are of course the trojan horses (trojan sheep as the case may be,) and that is perhaps the most pernicious of the changes they have made or let their judiciary make without a fight.
What else I am forgetting something here, this labor government is worse than any UK government ever, cancelling the magna carta in effect. Partial cancellation now, to be expanded later. There is seriously something wrong with our brains at this point, systematic pollution affecting our trust and fear and compliance functions in the brain, in some 1984 type shit, because past generations would never have accepted the magna carta being cancelled, liberty curtailed in the country modern liberty of the enlightenment was born in.
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