L’uomo di arresto della polizia ha girato al rally di estrema destra presumibilmente chiedendo che Keir Starmer venga girato
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/17/police-arrest-man-filmed-threatening-to-kill-keir-starmer-at-far-right-rally
di F0urLeafCl0ver
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Good. Still waiting on Elon Musk to be sanctioned for calling for violence and the Parliament to be overthrown.
The police have gone two far!
You can’t even call for the death of the prime minister anymore!
We used to be a proper cunt tree! /s
So, we’re now at 25 arrests for the protest on Saturday – an objectively low figure from the official figure of 150,000 in attendance. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t breach a statistical threshold to be newsworthy or dominate headlines for a week.
There does appear to be a desire for the number of arrests to increase to solidify the narrative “protests bad”, a strategy to perhaps avoid deep introspection on why normal people attended and respond to their calls for policy change (on the topic of immigration).
– “Marchers had travelled to London by train and coach for a demonstration, which was billed as a “festival of free speech”, but by its conclusion had amplified racist conspiracy theories and anti-Muslim hate speech across Whitehall.”
The guardian often does this, but they didn’t cite any examples or evidence of what this hate speech was. This leads the reader to confirm their own biases or conclude “protests bad” without real need to think deeper about this topic.
I’ll be interested in the reaction to this.
The stats on the other free speech arrests recently actually kind of point more towards that Brits overwhelmingly across the political spectrum actually support arrests like this, it’s just the over reach and sort of grey area of what was actually said leading to an arrest people are uncomfortable with.
This guy was pretty clear in what he said. I honestly thought he came across as quite unstable, someone in the crowd actually tried to get him to dial it back a bit and he didn’t .
It is a bit “hurty words” unless there is any evidence of a serious threat to the Prime Minister. It might be different if the man called for Starmer’s assassination during a meeting of a terrorist cell. This is not the United States where radicalised fools can pop home for their assault rifles. The people in the crowd are waving flags, not Kalashnikovs.
Ironically, it would actually have been worse (although treated less harshly) if he had called for protests outside Starmer’s family house, because that was something the crowd might actually have done (assuming he also provided the address).
ETA of course the man was a damn fool to have said it, but it is like the idiots who periodically get locked up for joking to customs at officers that they have a bomb or drugs.
The real test will be whether he goes to trial or does whatever the protestors did to get processed so quickly.
You cannot go around calling for anyone to be killed, getting arrested is very much the right thing and the courts can decide what happens to him.
Have they put up his gofundme yet?
I’m just waiting for some mental racist to tell me “BUT WE,RE ALL THINKING OF MURDER”
Reform are already lining him up to be a guest speaker at their next conference
Excellent – let’s hope he gets a very long stretch inside now.