If police try to stop and swab you: you can refuse. It’s your right.
While police regularly abuse their power and act outside the law, they have no legal power to forcibly swab or drug test you on the street
The Conservative and Labour front benches are in a competition to see who can come up with the most idiotic drug policy to pander to an audience of reactionaries who are genuinely convinced that outside every school lurks an army of dealers trying to sell crack to 5 year olds.
These people leaving everything they have behind not knowing where they are going or what happens next. The only difference between them and you or I other is sheer luck of where we were born, remember that when you see people trying to find a better life for their family’s.
You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.
When Tory MPs say there’s no money to give NHS staff a pay rise, to feed working class kids in the holidays, or to raise Universal Credit, remind them the government is set to spend £200 million on a new royal yacht.
If there’s money for the Royals, there’s money for the people.