“It’s nice, isn’t it. The quiet.”

They can arrest anyone for planning a protest now. Not for protesting, for planning to do a protest. We’re fucked lads. We’ve lost so much. So much has been sold off, and if we object, the law.

This is a reference to this other post by the by. Took me a while to find it.

Silencing protest before it's even begun. What's the word for this?

This is England.

Bet that copper, like others will pretend they were against the genocide decades from now. Good that the "just following orders" types are being documented on social media though

Reminds me of the miners strike between 1984-85. Tens of thousands of miners who were union members were jailed for trumped-up charge of "conspiracy". A medieval law, still used in England by authoritarians

Thought crime

If there was ever a great name for a 60’s style angry young man play.

It’s a reference to a controversial post by a left of center author Otto English.

'Get up, go home, I'm opposed to what you're contemplating doing"