Arrests come as Trump lands in UK for second state visit

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    This is what peak trolling looks like guise. It has all the elements for a perfect recipe. Bloated and petulant narcissist target, check. Corpulent and obsequious hosts, check. Incredibly damaging and embarrassing open secret that nobody wants to publicly discuss but everyone is dying to find out what’s in the dossier, chef’s kiss.

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    I hope they don’t get convicted with anything and it was just a case to stop them.

    Without looking, this looks like the work of Led By Donkeys. Pretty good activists I must say

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    nice going. make peaceful protest illegal. surely this won’t have completely expected repercussions

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    If it’s illegal to peacefully protest, then it’s time for violence against the oppressors.

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    Apparently it wasn’t a static image it was a ten minute movie of images of Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Nonce Andrew and expose interviews.

    Well done.

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    Understandable, in true Britain first spirit they should’ve projected the royal nonce Andrew.

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    Thames Valley Police said four people were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after the images were seen.

    Oh look, the truth is malicious!

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      Translation 4 inconvenient people were silenced by officers. By forcibly removing them from the scene. Knowing full well the CPS will likely not press charges.

      Given there is no way any court will consider the purpose as causing distress. As required by the act.

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          The judges can only rule according to the legislation. They don’t have a lot of interpreting power, if these people have genuinely not committed a crime there isn’t a lot that courts can do with them maliciously (unless they want to go full America and just straight up ignore the law which I don’t think labour could get away with)

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            Ruling that protesters could not tell the jury about their motivation was all the judiciaries decision.

            Don’t pass the buck on this. England’s judiciary, and their lawyer class in general, has betrayed the freedom of speech and expression that florist in England hundreds of years before the rest of the continent and made it to Envy of the world.

            All for some chiseling cunts busy stealing our lunch and freedom with the help of that same judiciary. They think what remained of democracy is already dead.

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      “Malicious communications”? A heinous crime indeed! So when is Trump getting arrested for it, together with most if not all politicians?

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        If that’s malicious communication then Tommy Robson probably is up for the death penalty. Except strangely not.

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        Well Trump is American and they adhere to free speech to the point of insanity so nope there.

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          They don’t really. People are losing their jobs, getting kicked out the country, etc. For saying the wrong words.

          It’s “free speech only if you agree with the government”.

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      were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications

      It’s just performative. An exercise to waste time and make it look like the police and state are “doing something”. They probably take their cues from the Home Office.

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    Trump’s here for two days, I think. I imagine all four will be released without further charge on the third day.

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    This government seems to see the “beneficial” trade deal with the US as one of the key successes of their tenure. If it breaks down, they’ve got exactly zero wins and only a series of disasters they’ve lurched between since taking office.

    Ignoring the fact that the deal seems entirely one sided and allows US tech giants to snap up contracts across whole swathes of British institutions, despite not being able to find any reasons for things like LLMs in government departments, without any reciprocal benefits like lifting steel or car tariffs which are all still in place and were what starmer used as examples of how good the trade deal is.

    Doing “deals” with trump is like grabbing a snake by the tail, sure you might look for a while like you have control but at any moment the snake can turn around and bite you. So now we’re stuck in a situation where we have to collectively suck trumps cock lest he decide to just say “50% tariffs for you bitches now”.

    Hence the strong arm tactics by the home office to scare people into not doing things like showing foreign visitors our contempt for them, which has been a long standing tradition of the British people.