mastodon 4.6.9Tracking politics, policing and civil liberties in the UK.
“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”
"Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are using anger over the murder of the white 18-year-old student Henry Nowak by a Sikh man as a recruiting ground for their cause, with prominent members taking part in violent protests on Tuesday."
#UKPol #Southampton #Portswood #Racism #NeoNazis #UKIP #BritainFirst #RestoreBritain #SouthamptonPatriots #ChristianNationalism #RaiseTheColours #TommyRobinson #LaurenceFox
"#Lewisham voters have elected Liam Shrivastava as #Green mayor, with 35,265 votes. #Labour came in with 30,374 votes and #ReformUK took 7,288 votes."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62rmlprxlpt?post=asset%3A07de9c2f-7e73-4910-8702-c800386790be#post
"The #GreenParty took 42 of the 57 seats on #Hackney Council, up from four, whilst #Labour fell from 43 seats to nine. The Conservatives held on to six. The #Greens also took the directly-elected mayoralty for the first time. The 57-seat Hackney Council is now made up of 42 Green party councillors, nine Labour and six Conservatives. This gives the Greens the highest proportion of seats the party has ever won in a principal local authority."
"For many observers, the image of a frail pensioner being physically handled by political aides raises serious questions about the culture surrounding Farage’s campaign appearances."
https://dorseteye.com/farages-thugs-manhandle-disabled-pensioner/
"Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with #Palestine."
#UKPol #LSE #Manchester #Bristol #Oxford #ImperialCollege #UCL #KCL #Sheffield #Leicester #Nottingham #Cardiff
"Most people and organisations are selective about defending speech, only doing so when the speech or the speaker in question aligns with their political views and affiliations."
"This timeline provides an overview of sentences stemming from right-wing terror attacks, plots, and offences in the UK between 1999 and summer 2022."
https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/timeline-extreme-right-wing-terrorism-in-the-uk/
"Nine in 10 UK millionaires are proud to live in Britain, and three-quarters would be willing to pay more tax to ensure public assets get the funding they need."
"By any reading of British economic history, the #Brexit decade of 2016-2026 has seen the lowest, most sluggish economic growth ever recorded. Most economists say that British GDP will be 8% smaller following our break with the EU."
"Executives from Meta, Snap, YouTube's parent company Google, TikTok and X are expected to be questioned by Sir Keir and technology secretary Liz Kendall on how they are making their platforms safer for children. Sir Keir said while he believed social media could be made safer for British children, curbing access would be "preferable to a world where harm is the price of participation"."
"The Lords International Relations and Defence Committee urged ministers to “banish the sentimental illusion” of a “special relationship” that would endure forever."
"#Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump’s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK’s largest police force last month. The talks have created internal concerns about allowing a controversial US company to process highly sensitive intelligence data relating to crimes, such as victims’ personal information."
"The infrastructure is already built."
