STARMER - police state

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/08/02/starmer-is-exploiting-far-right-to-attack-our-civil-freedoms-and-web-access/

‘The UK, its democracy and its freedoms are in grave danger’

 
“[We have long warned] that Keir Starmer — the ‘long-time servant of the security state‘ — would drag the UK towards a police state if he got into power.

“In so-called ‘opposition’, Starmer … [colluded] with the Tories:

- to defeat an attempt to overturn anti-protest legislation,

- [to] block measures to protect journalists from state persecution, and

- to pass laws to prevent public bodies acting against apartheid …”

“… [In addition, he] supported Israel’s right to starve Palestinians … [and] …

- [imposed] … Friends of Apartheid in parliamentary candidate selections …”

“As Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer flew in fury to Washington DC to grovel to the US government after Theresa May blocked the extradition of autistic hacker Gary McKinnon, which he had promised to secure for the US …

- [And] his department was deeply involved in attempts to extradite Wikileaks journalist Julian Assange …”

“[Now Starmer has announced] sweeping new powers for police to monitor the public’s movements using facial recognition technology … and to impose restrictions on an individual’s right to take part in protest.

“The measures include the re-creation of the ‘National Police Unit’ that Thatcher used to break the miners …

“And he made clear … that he intends to … pressure social media companies to collude even further in the state’s spying on communications …

“The UK, its democracy and its freedoms are in grave danger.”

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/08/02/starmer-is-exploiting-far-right-to-attack-our-civil-freedoms-and-web-access/