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  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    You know what, I will give this to the tories. At least their drive to defund every government service is so pathological that it even includes cops. Meanwhile republicans (and democrats tbh) want to defund everything else but still give more money to cops

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      • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Labour found that the working classes don't want what they're selling. So they dumped them. They went and found a new proletariat. Now Labour has nothing but contempt for the working class who used to vote for them. The Tories can't believe their luck and scooped up the new voters.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The only real policy Labour have now is to turn the UK into a giant panopticon.

    He set out a vision for a national rollout of “police hubs” with their own neighbourhood crime prevention teams to crack down on antisocial behaviour.

    A “next generation neighbourhood watch” using technology including video doorbells and WhatsApp groups would be tasked with bringing people together to share information to tackle crime.

    :yea:

    • Abraxiel
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      3 years ago

      In East Germany, the citizens were under constant surveillance, from the stasi, but mostly from each other.

    • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That's the thing about a police state: petty crime virtually disappears.

      Of course the powerful are free to commit any crime they wish, but hey. No more bicycle thieves! They're all in camps being taught how to operate machine lathes. Surely this is worth giving up your civil rights for.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    our budget to go undercover and have kids with activists via rape by deception must remain intact!
    :speech-r:
    :british-maw:

    • Octagonprime [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/
      https://www.spycops.info/

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This shouldn't be surprising. Corbyn ran on the exact same thing. Are people forgetting that Corbyn was stridently pro-cop?

  • VolcelPolice [any]
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    3 years ago

    Look I get that his policies are terrible and he's Blair in gammonface, but at least use his real name instead of some joke. It's disrespectful and the red tory deserves better.

    Call him Keith.

  • Ataraxia [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Same strategy as American Democrats. Throw BLM under the bus and nonsensically blame Republicans for being the actual anti-police party

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    why does the loser party get fun names adjectived by 'shadow'

    wonder if its a brit thing or all parliaments say that

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      In Canada, official opposition members are most often called opposition critics, but terms like "shadow ministers" are also occasionally used.

    • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The party not in power appoints a cabinet, even though this cabinet has no power. They they call these people "shadow ministers". The newspapers come to them for quotes about whatever the ruling party is doing wrong.

      Basically, it's a way for powerful people who have been insulted by the people to salve their wounded souls.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lol that might be at least part true. British Tories are more committed to austerity than liberals and conservatives in Canada and America.

  • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Need more police to deal with that “anti-social behavior” the labour people love talking about.

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How else would you deal with it?...social services? Nah, better to just arrest them and never fix the root of the problem.

      Libs take a big, nasty shit in the room then argue the best way to get rid of the stench is more febreeze.

  • Shrek
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    3 years ago

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