love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

literally pissing on a copper's memorial stone imagine if that happened at a BLM march.

we need statues of max roach, cecil taylor and eric dolphy in brooklyn pic.twitter.com/TkxtkKTsHJ

— callahan (@banhmiverlag) June 13, 2020

nowt wrong with statues of cool people, but they don't do them!

Statues should only be of musicians, philosophers or games designers

every statue should be of hideo kojima

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/17/cf/e6/9f/lobey-dosser-statue.jpg

... used to pass it every day.

i used to live literally right across the road from that

great days

Would be a great irony if covid 19 took out half of comb*t 18 as a result of today's shenanigans

combat 9

I was in Leicester Square yesterday and it was quiet, friendly. there was a sense of anger, resignation and camaraderie. it was multi-racial, there were guys mc-ing, posing on bikes, gays and Trans people lots of ages. a girl sang 'a change is gonna come' and she could really sing and the crowd cheered her for each triumphant note. there were young people taking selfies, posing dressed in black doing black power salutes for Instagram. there were people fabulously dressed, in amazing all black outfits, looking like they were all going to vogue fabrics circa 2012. it was rich and alive, despite everything it was animated by energy, creativity and optimism.

I really pity these fascist creeps trashing the place for no reason. they have nothing and they mean nothing. all their misdirected spite is so empty, and there is nothing for them to celebrate because they've made nothing. and they have some right to feel aggrieved because we've all been fucked over but their brains are warped by bigotry and so they hate and love all the wrong things. I fucking hate them.

otmfm

Those pumped up to the gills on steroids boys with the purple berets though.. all dressed up with nobody to murder.

Tom is that across the road from the Halt Bar?

It is.

I’ve never seen a protest so hostile to press.

A black BBC photographer has just been accused of defacing the statue of Winston Churchill.

A demonstrator just grabbed my press badge and had a long, hard look at who I worked for, before nodding and walking off.

Menacing.

— Ed Clowes (@EdClowes) June 13, 2020

The Halt bar is no more, sadly.

been gone for years now, alas

Five arrests.

Only 5 arrests made in today’s demonstrations despite real time video evidence of extreme displays of violence en masse. Had Black Lives Matter protesters “clashed” with these fascists, we would’ve been arrested at 1pm and serving a 5 year sentence by 6pm.

— Jase (@jasebyjason) June 13, 2020

Evening Standard is reporting 100+

who is being arrested?

The cops are mopping up groups of young black people in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square, Leciester Square and Hyde Park. Had between 30-40 detained, searched and arrested in the last 1.5-2 hours

— Carl Spender (@CarlSpender) June 13, 2020

filthy pig scum fuck this country

Correction/update to this tweet, 5 was the original figure, now looks like its 100+ and mostly BLM protesters https://t.co/ChFsOh57HI

— Jase (@jasebyjason) June 13, 2020

bleak https://i.ibb.co/hDGdHh8/Untitled.png

that came out weird

destroy capitalism

This can be challenged. There are two months from date of filing to challenge it:https://t.co/TUVm1WKh9D. https://t.co/j9sSbg2G7e

— Jendella Benson (@JENDELLA) June 13, 2020

Reading the article, it seems unlikely he'd be successful anyway.

More freedom fighters

Just as I entered Hyde Park so did this hoard. There isn’t even a protest on for them to protest against. Vile. Video blurred as I got pushed. Thankfully the @metpoliceuk arrived and they ran for the hills. #londonprotests #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/EPHYvlTzWU

— Tom Norman (@Tom_Norm) June 13, 2020

This is the Liverpool BLM protest right now. Compare this to the thugs in Westminster.pic.twitter.com/lSjhppjI1o

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 13, 2020

Even the Daily Mail website was saying the BLM protests were peaceful while shaking its head at the thugs in Westminster.

Anyone going 'god they're not going to report this' is missing the point on a very basic level. Of course they're going to report it and they're going to go big on it - events like this allow the right to fulminate against racism while continuing to propogate racist arguments and/or policies. Events like today are an absolute gift to them and they are going to play that outrage like a trumpet.

TS: Any violence against our police is completely unacceptable. No ifs, no buts. Today’s protests in London were led by those intent on causing violence and sowing hate for their own ends. We must not let them win. vs. Racist thuggery has no place on our streets. Anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law. These marches & protests have been subverted by violence and breach current guidelines. Racism has no part in the UK and we must work together to make that a reality.

surely that is a Margaret Thatcher quote... oh noes...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/black-lives-matter-protest-carries-injured-far-right-safety-waterloo-london-a9564946.html

Just pure blankness when you try to picture this the other way around.

xp
oh I see .. that is two Margaret Thatcher quotes! what a golden age.

Hopefully he dumped the Nazi in the Thames but that's quite a photo nonetheless.

so that is what became of this "tolerant Britain we loved". fuck that in the next pic he gets a good shoeing and is dumped in a skip with all the ceremonial dignity of an abandoned fridge!

Latest news: Police pinch PC Palmer pisser.

25,000 elderly people transferred straight from hospitals into care homes without a test. I wonder how much of the overall death toll that accounted for.

Even if you look at this and think Labour aren't up for an argument with the press/much of the country it must be totally deflating for people who have Labour as their only option.

Labour backs Priti Patel plan to jail protesters for vandalising war memorialshttps://t.co/wJU7wzA9fw

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) June 14, 2020

David Lammy pointed out this morning that you can already be jailed for up to 10 years for criminal damage, so what's new?

*Lab to increase it to 20*

Seriously though, it's a terrible game, Starmer will just nod to everything against Sunak or whoever at the PM debate in four years and then what.

BBC so close to a breakthrough

But despite claims that the day was about defending British heritage, it soon became violent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53037767

Also a present for calz:

Holy shit, Icke was right. pic.twitter.com/0x88dq9bFx

— Em (@WeePotatoes) June 13, 2020

it's a grim race to bottom with Starmer leading the opposition, seriously hope the tory cunt dies tbh.

every time I think he just can't get any worse...

Ten years is more than you get for rape.

there you go folks, Keir Starmer supporting a Mail on Sunday campaign on a manufactured issue designed to distract from the aims and focuses of the BLM movement that specifically contemptually name drops “left wingers.” i dare you to defend this party and this leadership. https://t.co/aw5bnl7U8i

— mimi🏴☭ (@ameliamcd_) June 13, 2020

Saw that 'British Prime Ministers' was trending and wow the tinfoil hats are having a field day with that one.

Boris Johnson is set to scrap plans to allow people to change their legal gender by “self-identifying” as male or female, it has been reported.

Measures drawn up under Theresa May’s government to enable transgender people to change their birth certificate without a medical diagnosis have been ditched by the prime minister’s team, according to the Sunday Times.

Instead, the paper said ministers plan to announce a ban on “gay cure” therapies, in what was described as an attempt to placate LGBTQ+ people.

At the same time, the government was said to be preparing to set out new safeguards to protect female-only spaces including refuges and public lavatories.

The details were said to be contained in a leaked paper setting out the government’s long-delayed response to a public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act.

The Sunday Times said that the paper was “basically ready” and was being slated for publication by the equalities minister, Liz Truss, at the end of July before MPs break for the summer.

A No 10 source told the PA news agency that the details of the response were yet to be finalised, and the prime minister would have the final say on the recommendations.

According to the Sunday Times, about 100,000 responses to the public consultation were received with an overwhelming majority – about 70% – in favour of allowing people to self-identify as a man or a woman.

Officials were said to believe that the results had been “skewed” by an “avalanche” of responses generated by trans rights groups, although transgender people, including non-binary people, are estimated to make up about 1% of the UK population.

Of course the results were skewed by responses by people who this legislation affects, that's literally the point of a consultation. This makes me so sick - apparently they spent two years on this and then decided to throw away the results because they didn't like them.

"equalities minister, Liz Truss"

this is a sick joke.

it was funny the first time, but come on now...

This government was never going to put through the reforms - fucking horrible all the same and puts them up there with such women-loving luminaries as Orbán and *checks notes* Trump.