“There were anti-monarchy protesters who were arrested on the basis that the luggage straps that they were carrying were seen to be tools for locking-on, which was a new offence created under the Public Order Act, but they were carrying them to secure their placards.
“We’re also seeing it in sentencing. Last summer, the Court of Appeal upheld the sentences of the two protesters who scaled the Dartford crossing. And those sentences were two years and seven months, and three years – the harshest sentences ever handed down in modern times around protests around civil disobedience,” she said.
two years for scaling infrastructure 
feel like brits porkies have forgotten important maxim "in for a penny in for a pound", considering drones cost 200 bucks
The running joke on TrashFuture is how the UK defunded its police ages ago, but the state leadership still thinks they've got a drove of pigs to stampede over their political opposition.
The British Commonwealth isn't a real thing. Time to just balkinize already.