Portsmouth this evening

Seen some of the videos and I am absolutely disgusted.

The police using pepper spray on protestors who seemed to be peaceful.

One video showed an old man laying in the road after appearing to have been pepper sprayed.

In another it looks like RNLI crew throwing water at protestors who are already freezing standing the sea.

I can't imagine the police using pepper spray at Just Stop Oil protestors and if a blocked driver had chucked water over them, the driver would have got arrested for assault.

This country is absolutely fucked and we just let it happen!

@Braveboys

What is all this stuff about communism ?

Do you know how many asylum cases Communist China granted last year ? Zero.

Last I checked, the PRC had something like 400 asylum seekers within it's borders. They don't grant it to any. They give them to the UN to deal with.

Your theme here, of do not grant asylum, is pretty much identical to the Communist Party of China.

Technically, this puts you pretty close to being Communist yourself in a way. In terms of overlapping circles on a Venn diagram anyway.

It really doesn't take much to sort the fake news (or propaganda) from real news on X.

You really just need a functioning brain with critical thinking skills, that isn't just looking for confirmation of bias you already have.

There’s a significant overlap between far left and far right. Their behaviour is often indistinguishable, in fact.

Oh critical thinking like you engage in? Do you know what critical thinking is? It’s not simply criticising the thinking of people you don’t like you know. And people not agreeing with you looking for confirmation bias? Oh the irony!

By the way, if people are freezing standing in the sea they should get out of the sea. Or, better still, not get in the sea in the first place. Who asked them to do so?

For sure. The Overton horseshoe. Or even circle.

That's why all this talk of "the far left" confuses me. Because the actual far left countries appear to me to have the exact policies on immigration that the UK far right want.

This is why many governments have their parliaments arranged in horseshoe shapes is it not?

Says who? Have you been stopped by MN from discussing it?
Some of us don’t have Twitter.

Yes, both the policies and the behaviours align (masked protest, violence, intolerance of other views, claims to believe in freedom of speech when they do no such thing and dehumanise anyone who has different views).

whoops I used the word cr*pto and got my post automatically hidden when I wasn’t even referring to the currency. Shame it was a good un too!

No masked protests in Communist China. Also no free speech.