And the prize for most Orwellian reaction goes to Leeds Constabulary, where a man was arrested for carrying a placard he'd made from a graphic that appeared in Private Eye.

#FreePalestine #ACAB #UKPolitics

@fkamiah17 I read that in the magazine so should I hand myself in on Monday?

@spanghero

*copies post, forwards to local police station*

@fkamiah17 They'll just c'n'p my name from one of the several lists it's probably already on!
@fkamiah17 satire innit. Course the plod won't get that!
@patrickhadfield I notice the Edinburgh plod put their Glasgow colleagues to shame by not arresting the Palestine Action protesters today ...
@fkamiah17 that cartoon next to it: "Debt, debt to the IDF"
@fkamiah17 Obviously, Ian Hislop is a terrorist.
@Nickiquote Ian Hislop is one of the very few people on the planet who could wear a balaclava sarcastically.
@fkamiah17 You’d still know it was him, from the shape of the head.
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I wonder if I'd get my .uk domain snatched for pointing it at pro a Palestine Action webpage?
@sb Palestine Action doesn't have a website any more.
@fkamiah17
But anyone could fashion a webpage in favour of PA.
@sb Good luck with that, when the Online Safety Act comes into force in five days' time.

@fkamiah17

Truly bizarre... because it is simply stating the government's position...

@sufferforme It seems that, to some meatheaded mono-celled rozzers, the presence of the word "Palestine" is enough to justify an arrest.
@fkamiah17 Surely this guy has the most obvious defence? If it even gets that far, I suspect most of this is arrest and release without charge
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Cannot wait to see what the judge does with this one.
@n1xnx Assuming he was charged, which I doubt. Quite a few people who were arrested were released without charge a few hours later.
@fkamiah17 He went out of his way to include his source in the footnote
@jesse_saenz You're expecting too much of the police to check for something as irrelevant (to them) as sources.
@fkamiah17 what’s going on in England? Starmer seems worse that the last guy!