Vox Political scrapbook: June 7
Imagine if you called firefighters and they just beat the shit out of you instead of putting the fire out
— Eggs (@Ethelmonster) June 5, 2020
The Metropolitan Police has joined the government in losing public confidence after reacting with violence during a peaceful anti-racism protest:
Solidarity with the people protesting outside Parliament today. The death of George Floyd in the United States was an atrocity. But police brutality is real here in the UK. Stay safe #blacklivesmatter #LDNBLM pic.twitter.com/RfEd79Yxn9
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 6, 2020
Officer falls from horse as mounted police 'charge UK anti-racism protesters' https://t.co/cydmr34XNP
— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020
Police officers in London are charging at protestors with horses. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/CPtzsXVl6y
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020
Sky News is reporting that protestors knocked a police officer off his horse. THIS IS A LIE. While charging into protestors, he slammed into a traffic light and fell off. They’re trying to paint BLM protestors as violent.
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020
I’m sorry for making insensitive jokes about the police officer who was hurt. I still think it’s wrong to deploy horses at protests which escalate tension and cause panic. It doesn’t help anyone.
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020
traffic lights are Antifa terrorists, tear them down🤣pic.twitter.com/hse0bmVHDK
— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) June 6, 2020
WHY were police horses running at demonstrators?
It is a tactic only acceptable in absolutely extreme circumstances
The chance of an accident is always high
It is sad that one of the police officers was injured. WHY was he told to go on the horse in the first place?
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) June 6, 2020
Then don’t put horses in situations they may find terrifying and in which they have the capacity to seriously injure and kill human beings. FFS. https://t.co/eyrZrYZebt
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/sam56759067/status/1269354184849207298
https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1269349832616968192
The same out of control police horse whose rider went into a lamp post also collided with a pedestrian. @metpoliceuk need to be asked about the wisdom of deploying horses in crowded, wet streets. Shouldnt be allowed to happen again pic.twitter.com/td9rDpRoJK
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020
How does anyone think horses, charging a crowd, in the rain, will maintain ‘public order’?
Someone explain this to me.
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020
Whoever ordered the use of police horses in a wet, crowded street to disperse a crowd is to blame for this. Beyond foolish.
Hope this person is okay, that’s one hell of a collision. pic.twitter.com/zZxCsJAdz1
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020
Would that be Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick?
She was the Gold Commander when that Brazilian man was shot on the tube in full gaze of the public – 7 Bullets fired. What did Cressie do – offer his family £3,250.00 compensation for his life. Exonerated her responsibility & then becomes Met in Chief & given a Damehood !!!!!! https://t.co/zYxABuRlY4
— Carole Hawkins (@hawkins_carole) June 6, 2020
The Covid-19 infection rate in the UK is rising:
These R rate uplifts cannot be attributed to the recent #BlackLivesMatter protests – no matter how hard some people will try to say they are.
Surely this is due to May bank holidays, trips to beaches, people returning to work by public transport, etc. https://t.co/Kg0i2RUPQ9— Corfu Literary Festival 💙 (@CorfuArts) June 6, 2020
And the (official) death toll has passed 40,000:
If the Government had acted quicker, deaths would have been 30,000 less than we have seen.
Just think about that.
Death by CV is agonising. 30,000 needless, agonising deaths.
It’s criminal negligence. It’s probably worse than that. https://t.co/Atquwrvt5B
— Wolfie. 💙🧡💚 (@Tpopularfront) June 5, 2020
» Prime minister told to dump rhetoric and plan for new Covid wave | World news | The Guardian https://t.co/qpev4yz6jD
— Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) June 7, 2020
Fairly obvious that the Black Lives Matter protest will get the blame in the event of a second spike.
Not Cummings, or sending the schools back, or weak messaging, sending people back to unsafe work environments, relaxing measures too soon, being late on face masks…
— Guy Fawkes (@blunted_james) June 6, 2020
Labour has no moral high ground on the race issue:
I’m afraid the Labour leadership sect are in no position to talk about #BlackLivesMatter until they suspend the people who took great pleasure in racially abusing Diane Abbott.
The Labour leaks only revealed a tiny glimpse of reality, believe me on that.
Labour is a cesspit.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) June 6, 2020
Remember this racist lynching of Marc Wadsworth, black anti-racist campaigner?
There will be no peace in Labour until there is justice.#LabourLeaks#LabourRacism pic.twitter.com/dGO4AdRrZD— MM (@2SpencerRoad) June 6, 2020
Labour is a cesspit if one of the party’s MPs can be shamed into deleting a link to a perfectly reasonable article:
I think this is seriously problematic. The piece Ms Greenwood has been told is 'offensive' is a measured and serious examination of how Corbyn has been treated by media, by @OborneTweets. That Ms Greenwood should feel pressured into *apologising* for it is frankly scandalous. https://t.co/VitpQ8LKOv
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) June 6, 2020
And the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has responded to his detractors:
This is the message your DWP shad sec is also sending to society's most vulnerable, with his 'deserving poor' spiel. Fix this @Keir_Starmer, this isn't behaviour or policy I can support. https://t.co/FnnLyMeram
— Damien Willey 🟢 🔴 (@KernowDamo) June 6, 2020
Vigilantism has arisen in the US:
A biker gang brutally beat these protesters in Philly today. pic.twitter.com/r1TzXrOpNW
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) June 5, 2020
Just looked it up. So this is the guy …https://t.co/ZPQgzm3299
— Inga B (@02CRMBL) June 6, 2020
Rightwing vigilantes on armed patrol after fake rumours of antifa threat https://t.co/fGTSnDiryv
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2020
Who can blame them, considering the state of their police?
How can you use your turn signal in an aggressive manner? https://t.co/ukE8jPYpwv
— ♿️🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🕸️⚫️MaiaB (@MaiaBug2010) June 6, 2020
Buffalo mayor says elderly protester pushed to ground by police was 'agitator' https://t.co/LDv5HkaBND
— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020
Now you’ve seen that America’s police are:
▪️brutal, cruel, barbarians
▪️liars even w/video proof
▪️falsify reports
▪️work w/white nationalists
▪️give a shit abt RightsAnd that’s with WHITE folks in broad daylight.
What you think they’ve been doing to us when no ones looking?
— Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) June 5, 2020
But protest is not about to die down:
George Floyd killing: Washington expecting biggest march yet as mourners prepare for second memorial service – live https://t.co/pIKUCpNSKG
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2020
STAY WOKE: I understand that people want to get back to normal. But normal is toxic for us. Keep your knee on these politians and keep them working in our collective interest. Continue to post, inform and complain. They’re hoping you go back to posting bullshit that don’t matter.
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 5, 2020
US President Trump has done an about-face on George Floyd:
Trump retweets Candace Owens interview saying ‘George Floyd was not a good person’ https://t.co/pazuCk55CV
— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020
But we all know what he is, anyway:
💥 John Bercow rips into Trump 💥 – "Donald Trump is the most rancid, racist & repellent occupant of the White House in my lifetime… & the government needs to call Trump out… " 👏#bbcaq pic.twitter.com/bk99MsEy9p
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) June 6, 2020
By the way, that stuff he has been taking to keep Covid-19 at bay? It doesn’t work:
Hydroxychloroquine does not cure Covid-19, say drug trial chiefs https://t.co/Hnkk3DegDr
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) June 6, 2020
More government claims:
Claims government 'on track to meet care home testing target'https://t.co/GkJwFydKBe pic.twitter.com/xVrks3VWdH
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) June 6, 2020
We will not lower our food standards in trade agreements. 👇 pic.twitter.com/3SBURJoYv1
— Liz Truss (@trussliz) June 6, 2020
But hasn’t the government already lowered its standards? There’s a new petition to stop the importing of chlorinated chicken:
Let's stop the chlorinated food policy in its tracks..Please sign and share ..@paulmasonnews @lionelbarber @carolecadwalla @NHSMillion @NFUPolitical @k_runswick_cole @itvpeston @peterjukes @PeterStefanovi2 https://t.co/G2hs6lnUF6
— Alain Catzeflis #IamEuropean (@alain_catzeflis) June 6, 2020
Downing Street has been accused of reopening the door to imports of chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef, after a leaked memo instructed ministers to have “no specific policy” on animal welfare in US trade talks https://t.co/tl7YX7SDDs
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) June 6, 2020
More claims about the government:
Not content with making up coronavirus policy on the hoof, @10DowningStreet has taken to treating the NHS with complete contempt – telling the media of radical changes without even informing NHS leaders in advance. Stuff science, stuff the NHS, it seems. https://t.co/xEUJSTol5d
— Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) June 6, 2020
And Dominic Cummings is still hated and ridiculed:
Spotted. In that there London.
Made it. #LoveBarney pic.twitter.com/OkgVddN2lK— Barnard Castle News (@BarnardNews) June 5, 2020
