This is just the first step at making protests illegal.
Yeah, no, we're long past that point
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_information/pcsc-policing-act-protest-rights/
by decades
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/police-brutality-against-striking-miners-and-cover-ups-laid-bare
centuries..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
The first step? They've been on this path for years
I think you mean the ninety first step.
I see no hope for this country. Things are just getting worse and worse every year, how long can this keep going?
It’s pretty bad now, but I seriously worry what things will be like in 20 or so years.
Tories on a any% speed run to the government from Children of Men, while the left is worried about which way Kier decides to lean that afternoon
Hmm...I wonder which political spectrum the current government belongs to...
Fuck the Tories right, but I also don't see Starmer opposing any of this.
So if someone doesn't want to get sick for being in a huge crowd, they get arrested? Truly genius.
Oi you got a loicence for that mask?
I do but ye cant see mi face on the loicence photo anyways
Remember remember the fifth of November,
When Guy Fawkes took the fall.
Be sure to wear your mask from now on,
They can't arrest us all
Fake beards, wigs , sunglasses and presumably face paint should be ok
Stay safe protestors. Leave id and phone at home, don't hold anything that could be interpreted as a weapon, and carry a "your rights" card to help you remember what to do if the police try to take away your freedom.
Don't talk to Police
Don't talk to police
It looks like this would apply to any item used to conceal one's identity. So, it's possible that all of those things could be included.
Man its like the UK is an authoritarian shit hole or something. Y'all need weapons and resistance. And no, I'm not American before someone asks.
It's like they think V for Vendetta was a blueprint for how to run a utopia.
Is the UK turning into a dictatorship or an undeveloped country ? How is independent press doing over there ?
More like fascist-adjacent. And we started the process of underdeveloping ourselves when the fascist-adjacent leaders persuaded the terminally ignorant that Brexit would be great when it was obvious it was going to lead exactly where it is leading right now.
dictatorship or an undeveloped country
Right-Wing Government: why not both?
I think it's important to relate the latter part to the former - beyond the privacy issues with not being allowed to wear masks (and having our bank accounts invaded), there is also the health aspect, and disallowing masks is one sure fire way to keep disabled people from assembling, since, you know, we don't want to get covid, being significantly more likely to die from it (not necessarily because of the illness, but because our lives are deemed less worth saving).
The lack of any mask mandates already excludes disabled people from so many public spaces, this is just another way to keep us (as well as others, you know, first they came for..) from fighting back. as they strip us of every last human right.
This is an admittance that you have no right to protest.
What are.you going to do about it?
You've got to understand the 'average' British psyche at this point in history. The majority simply don't care that people they see as troublemakers and/or scroungers are having their rights dismantled. They lack the empathy to give a shit for these people and they lack the foresight to see that it'll be their rights gone one day too. What stirs the average british gammon off their collective arses these days is the rumour there might be an immigrant in a hotel somewhere or that a drag queen exists.
Prote—ahhh nearly got me!
But they already made protest illegal.
They need the facial recognition software to do it's thing so they can make sure life gets difficult for anyone conscious of their actions.
I have never seen a cucked nation like the UK in the world before. u guys have no resistance what so ever ! the french should have bought you some freedoms a few centuries ago.
Genocide Island going back to its roots.
it will be interesting to see if we ever get to a point during the next inevitable global pandemic where masks are compulsory in some places and illegal in others
They want it to be illegal to both wear and not to wear a mask so that they can selectivity enforce arbitrary laws against whomever they wish.
Well that should put us back on track as a nation, practical solutions for our modern problems. What a relief.
Does it apply to FFP2 respirators?
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