so the UK government actually passed a bill that allows for cops and informants to get immunity to literally any crime

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2783

it was given royal assent in March and it’s fucked up.

also the list of relevant authorities allowed to authorize legal crime by cops and snitches is really funny:

Police forces etc - Any police force. - The National Crime Agency. - The Serious Fraud Office. The intelligence services - Any of the intelligence services. The armed forces - Any of Her Majesty’s forces. Revenue and Customs - Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Government departments - The Department of Health and Social Care. - The Home Office. - The Ministry of Justice. Other bodies - The Competition and Markets Authority. - The Environment Agency. - The Financial Conduct Authority. - The Food Standards Agency. - The Gambling Commission.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/4/section/4/enacted

love to be legally murdered by a Food Standards Agency informant.

there was an amendment to say that it was still illegal for cops to rape, kill and torture

and that amendment was: rejected


the other police bill is in the house of commons for its third reading today (the one that makes protest (or being a gypsy) illegal). i read the 139 pages of tabled amendments early this morning when i couldn’t sleep. some of them are pretty good. one of them makes it illegal to buy a dog with cash.

there’s an amendment to specify explicitly that protest is legal, but it doesn’t really go far enough because it allows public bodies to intervene to ā€œprevent disorderā€, which.. protest is disorder

but there’s another amendment to actually remove the whole Public Order section (that’s the section about protest), which would be great!

and some amendments that say if a council is kicking travelers out they have to first offer them a caravan site

there’s another amendment that says the whole ā€œprotest is illegalā€ section can’t come into effect until after a general election has been held, and then both houses of parliament have to ratify it

labour wants the chance to campaign with ā€œvote for us if you don’t want protest to be illegalā€ which is very funny

anyway, let’s learn espaƱol