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Things I've never done in decades of protests, but that far right 'patriots' in Bristol have done just this week
1) started a fight with students
2) lost that fight
3) called a demo about loosing it
4) prevented a cancer charity sponsored walk with that demo
Councillors were told Pero’s Bridge was in “reasonable-to-good condition” four days after engineers reported its opening section was stuck and would not lift, documents released under freedom of information show.
The report never went to the committee.
https://t.co/UjaNViZBFB
@JaneCarter34765@dopaminehoarder@ChopsyBristol@kimturner70 Not my main focus, but I do check before I get out and oppose a group.
Some friends of mine did speak to some of the Bristol Patriots after the split, hoping to not agree with them on everything but at least agree on a line in the sand with literal Nazis like Ryan. But no luck.
@JaneCarter34765@dopaminehoarder@ChopsyBristol@kimturner70 The Pateiots split. Reformed as Bristol Rises, at the Bristol Rises demo in August he was present and welcome, and there was no distancing from his views. He live streamed from it.
If you didn't know that someone I your group has been lieing to you.
@JaneCarter34765@dopaminehoarder@ChopsyBristol@kimturner70 Incorrect. He attended in March, the folks running the protest publicly distanced themselves from him due to the footage of him shouting at Jewish people about being a nazi. Then the same people welcomed him back to their protest on August.
@bristol_citizen@breadandposes And, tell me if I'm wrong here, sold with at the time no restriction on how much the new private owners charge people who's heat they have a virtual monopoly over?
@stillawake Relatively radical leader, relatively radical base, and a whole bunch of people like Lucas and Dyer inbetween that are happiest cosying up to the establishment.
Very reminiscent of Corbyn era Labour.
@breadandposes@bristol_citizen Cool tech for sure, but with city leap the primary use of the money is profit for a few off the back of government grants which are supposed to be provide cheaper greener energy for the many.
@dopaminehoarder@ChopsyBristol@JaneCarter34765@kimturner70 The 'anti anti fascist' side welcomes support of people like Ryan Ferguson, who attended the first major demo of their new group. He is a self proclaimed neo nazi who shouted seig heil at Jews in Bristol.
The anti fascist side opposes that.
Sometimes it's really that simple.
@JaneCarter34765@ChopsyBristol@kimturner70 It's more fun as a teenager, but definitely makes even more sense as a more serious political ideology once you lived a bit longer in a world run by bosses, bankers, and politicians.
@LFGDevils I'm not a Marxist nor an Islamist. But I am capable of meeting people in the real world and making my own mind up about them based on what they say and what they do.
Sadly a skill that seems in short supply these days.
@FayeEsq@ZoeJardiniere There are already two laws police can use to force people to remove face coverings at protests, and tbh that is two too many.
The right to privacy and anonymity should be respected at protests