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It's hard not to see a sort of oligarchy vs the people battle shaping up, that's for sure.

Yeah, it's important to elect councillors and MP's that represent the people and not monied interests.

Problem is that you must already represent monied interests before you get anywhere near an MP/councillor seat.

Well, protesting is illegal now

It's not illegal, you just get shot is all

First one by one but slowly getting to Iran levels. If it feels unthinkable, the current events were unthinkable three years ago.

Shot and immediately branded a violent terrorist by the highest levels of government.

It's a bit of a catch-22 that they keep shooting and lying about the people who are filming them shooting people to provide evidence that they lie about what happens.

In which country? In the one I live in, its still alive and well

UK...

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