Thread 23. Sunak - Unicorn Kingdom

[DuncinToffee]

previouus thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4769680-thread-22-sunak-taxes-truth-and-tories?page=40&reply=125746141

https://twitter.com/SteveRobson04/status/1656644951978004483

Apparently just standing next to protestors that aren’t even processing can get you arrested too. I really hope that every single one of the people that were wrongly arrested takes the police to court. Showing just what a stupid law this is.

That’s dreadful. The Met just seems to be getting worse and worse.

You're not kidding Blossom. The Met just 'found' some 'lost' papers appertaining to the Daniel Morgan murder. I'd like to be surprised but I've lost the capacity.

P J O'Rourke in "parliament of whores" traced a case through SCOTUS about flag burning.

He commented that one reason a law may be struck out was if it was not drafted narrowly and gave the example that you couldn't be arrested for just standing near a burning flag with a smug look on your face.

Welcome to Britain 2023.

I wonder why anyone is surprised about the leasehold reverse ferret ? It was obviously never going to happen, since no one had done a stroke of work about recompensing the freeholders. And I would have thought they'd still have the vellum from when they compensated slaveowners

Untold is one of the most jaw dropping podcasts I've listened to.

Which means they absolutely are

Andrew Bridgen has joined Reclaim...

What happened with the final recount for locals on Tuesday?

I suppose there wasn't really anywhere else for him to go, at this point.

The 2 seats went to Labour and Independent, I think. The married Tory couple lost.

Only 4 votes in it

• Luke Myer (Lab) : 707
• Stephen Crane (Ind) : 246
• Vera Rider (Ind) : 413
• Andrea Turner (Con) : 409
• Vic Jeffries (Ind) : 342
• Steve Turner (Con) : 293

Reclaim what?

Not the Streets.

I think there is little chance it is sanity in his case.

Reclaim anything. If someone else has it, he wants it.

Reclaim the lunatic fringe. From the Tories.

The met need disbanding! Two officers sacked for excessive force against children?! Could they get any worse?

news.sky.com/story/two-met-police-officers-dismissed-for-punching-and-kicking-14-year-old-boy-during-arrest-12878380

Bridgen and the bad law project are also suing Matt Hancock.

Not just the Met - video on Twitter of North Wales police punching someone in the head nine times whilst being restrained in a headlock.

I’m sure it’s not just the Met. But they are having a particularly bad week (if not longer tbh) and that’s just the stuff we know about.

Yes, they've just interviewed the Royalist who had come to watch the Coronation on the Mall.
Arrested, handcuffed, DNA'd, kept in a cell for 12 hours. Missed all the Coronation.

I read about that. It is scary.

So if you are near a protest, minding your own business, the police can arrest you for no reason? How has it come to this?

I hope some decent lawyer offers to help her sue pro bono.

It will interesting to see if their action against the Met succeeds.

I'm guessing it won't. Which means that it wasn't a "mistake" but a logical endpoint for the powers the police have.

I am also guessing that a careful reading of the full law would reveal that the police now have the powers to arrest people who are merely watching a protest. After all, the logic would go that people wouldn't be protesting if there was no one there to watch.

The Met passed her complaint on to the Lincolnshire police as the police officer was from their force.

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1656780208114999297?s=20

No one should endure an extended period under arrest just because they’re an innocent bystander’

Alice Chambers, who was detained for 13 hours after she stood near a group of protestors at the coronation, shares her story with @vicderbyshire