How we became a dictatorship. Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill,

This thread has the same number of comments in the same time as the crisps thread. It’s priorities I suppose.

Same story here - mine's utterly hopeless - his office presumably have me on the "straight to junk" list

Whither apathy?

Lords next. Heard Shami Chakrabarty at Parliament Sq y’day, at demo organised by GRT Socialists.

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Time is running out to object to the police crime sentencing and courts bill.

A good summary written by the Quakers can be found here

This tweet has some easy to follow guidance on how to object.
Please do something to stop this government taking away so many of our rights liberties and freedoms.

I'll do that tomorrow morning. Thanks for posting.

George Monbiot’s latest thread on the lack of media coverage and our apathy.

And some folks still believe the BBC is impartial to the government agenda, and even get upset if it’s questioned. 🤷‍♂️

This act is getting worse not better

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It’s not you late to act by using your computer. You can campaign digitally.

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Been watching this at work today...

https://youtu.be/HUYOkH3eXck

Anyone know what happens after Monday?

Found the speaches interesting and thanks for the links @adroit, the tories continue to drag this country into the dirt.

Looks like a good night for civil liberties

The best news to wake up to.
The government were given quite a hiding

This is excellent news.

Found it interesting reading though some of the ammendments they were voting on.

Sadly I think the government are going to keep trying to chip away at some of these as part of their agenda, but yes a good night indeed.

Does this bill still include the amendment to make trespass a criminal offence?

I heard some of the ammendments made it through in December on the travelling community and tresspass.

Found this an interesting read.

https://gal-dem.com/every-bill-the-tories-are-trying-to-pass-2022/

Thanks. Seems to have been modified since I first read the bill (originally I think there was a proposal which would have meant riding a bike on a marked footpath could have lead to criminal charges)

A good night for the House of Lords too.

yes, good for them. One comment I read was that the bill would have stifled the suffragette protests if it had been in effect back then.

So what does this mean procedurally for the bill? Can it just be swatted aside like it seems Lords votes sometimes are, or will it actually cause it difficulty?

Very depressing that the trespass thing went through, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-WtdJpkcs

Can it just be swatted aside like it seems Lords votes sometimes are, or will it actually cause it difficulty

Anything that was in the bill at its introduction can be forced through after a process known as ‘ping ponging’ where it goes back and forward between the two houses.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/09/boris-johnson-to-force-through-new-anti-protest-curbs-in-queens-speech

Just forcing it through regardless, brilliant.

"going equipped to lock on to others, objects or buildings"

Cycle near a planned protest and they can nab or search you (especially if they don't like the look of you), if they cans see or suspect you're carrying any locks? Or nab people they don't like outside B&Q for buying superglue? This is fucked-up, thought-crime bollocks; it really is. And you can bet it will be used to legitimise bringing back profiling too, if it ever went away.

So it starts. We have our first victim, one of the people the law was written to deal with.
We are descending into fascism.
https://twitter.com/snb19692/status/1541766800613982208?s=21