Chud

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You know, between the buses deliberately slowing down their service during the busiest times, and the Elizabeth line seeming unable to go a day without a major fuck up, it's amazing anyone in east London gets anywhere.....

guys help I used to watch a video series decades (sob) ago that had a Green Goblin action figure answering fan emails, low quality camera, plain white paper background, proper old school youtube stuff. anyone else remember?? I cannot find it for the life of me

PM's office today have tacitly agreed with Kent Police's assessment that the blocking of Dover Port was a "lawful protest". There's currently no real pressure from anyone in govt, opposition parties or media to arrest masked thugs and their organisers from breaching the peace, disruption etc

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Labour's leader in the Lords, Henry Snell, noted the Fascist intolerance of heckling - something we have seen again this week. He added that "If our British people were persuaded [by Fascism], then the uniform that would be appropriate for them would be not a black shirt but a strait jacket".

The modern Fascist considers himself entitled to maltreat anyone in an audience who shows distrust of Fascist omniscience by asking a question. Heckling is a very old and cherished liberty of English political life. … But these dismal Jew-baiters cannot be satisfied with what generations of Englishmen have found satisfactory.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.