TraderSimon 📉📈🧙‍♂️

And why exactly do the police deserve any support from the public? They need reminding of the purpose of the role they undertook and more over they are PERSONALLY laible for everything they do and what they fail to do. If I was this CHILD's dad that copper would be in court!

Yes. Hansard is free online under the Open Parliament Licence, so print freely. Dry pages of parliamentary debates make solid kindling—light easily and burn clean. Pair them with those 666 tins of beans and you have a practical start on the Be Ready list.

A colour TV licence currently costs £180. Budget supermarket tins of baked beans are 27p at places like Lidl or Aldi, so cancelling it would buy you about 666 tins. That is a solid start on any three-day emergency stockpile.

🚨 A 15-year-old boy was woken by four West Midlands Police officers banging on his door. Fraser, a schoolboy and Reform UK activist, was arrested in front of his neighbours, bundled into a police car and held overnight in a cell. His mugshot and DNA were taken; even his shoes were confiscated. While he was in the cell, officers searched his bedroom at home. His “crime”? Criticising a Conservative councillor for wearing shorts and a T-shirt to a council meeting, then joking on social media that the councillor “was not looking like a rent boy” when he wore a suit. Fraser also posted an altered photograph of the councillor wearing bunny ears. In what self-respecting democracy should a child be arrested for criticising an elected politician? The Free Speech Union is supporting Fraser and has taken on his case. His lawyers received an email from West Midlands Police stating that “it is alleged that your client’s comments could be considered a hate crime offence”. Months later, Fraser is still waiting to learn whether he will be charged. Speaking to the New York Post, FSU Director of Legislative Affairs Sam Armstrong said: “Broadly speaking, several thousand people a year are being arrested for… ‘offensive speech’ in the UK.” Since 2020, the FSU has handled more than 7,000 cases involving people whose free speech has been infringed and who have been punished for exercising it. More than 60,000 people have also been arrested for communications offences in the UK. The First Amendment protects US citizens’ right to free speech. As Sam told the New York Post, it is the “global gold standard”. Read more below 👇

So clever.

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