The government’s anti-demonstration, pro-statue bill passed its second reading – 11 peaceful protests
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Instead of viewing the policing bill as taking away your rights, try seeing it as giving you the freedom to be arrested more easily. #ToryDictatorship#PolicingBill
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) March 16, 2021
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Starting to make a lot more sense how they’re going fill all these new prison spaces https://t.co/Kn3yAN0HZs pic.twitter.com/R6YcpPPHlT
— Plain Clothes Big Dinner In A Restaurant (@tom_usher_) March 16, 2021
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Well the good thing is, I just saw a picture of five police officers protecting a statue so I assume somewhere there are five statues protecting women.
— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) March 16, 2021
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Any protests against the #PolicingBill would be banned by the #PolicingBill Which is handy.
— Keith Burge (@carryonkeith) March 15, 2021
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Every day this country gets a little worse, and every day there's a little less we can do about it.
— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) March 16, 2021
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What is the punishment if you attack one of those people who pretend to be a statue?
— Dave Jones 🏴🏳️🌈 (@WelshGasDoc) March 16, 2021
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If we all chipped in we could build a statue of Jedward and anyone who defaced it would go to jail
— Billie (@_BillieBelieves) March 16, 2021
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Theresa May will be absolutely fucking fuming when she finds out Theresa May voted to pass the bill Theresa May stood up in the Commons and called a pile of shit 24 hours ago.
— 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Max 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@SpillerOfTea) March 16, 2021
Of course, the implications of it being illegal to be annoying could reach further than the government intended.
If this bill does get past the lords I urge everyone to make it hell for the MPs who voted for it. Every time you see Boris Johnson giving a speech in public, disrupting a work place call the fucking police.
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) March 16, 2021
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Piers Morgan and Jedward rowing over a Churchill statue is peak 2021
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