[jfman]

A couple (at least) of slightly worrying sentences being dished out.

In Belfast a judge said in sentencing remarks that simply being in attendance at a riot was enough, stating that defendants claims just to have been there protesting and to observe didn’t matter - attendance was enough.

Someone else got 12 weeks for expressing clear anti-immigrant sentiment - “coming to a town near you” alongside pictures of groups of foreign men looking like a gang.

The era of fascism will be ushered in by centrists impotent to change the minds of people who merely disagree with them at this rate.

Take any of the above principles in law - apply it to a protest you might attend, or a government failure you might condemn, during a period where you don’t like the colour of tie the PM wears. Frightening.