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‘Frankly, a Very Authoritarian Government’: Labour-Led Britain Suspends Elections, Announces Rollout of China-Style Facial Recognition Cameras
Breitbart ^

Posted on 12/05/2025 6:01:23 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

Left-led UK government follows up attacking Magna Carta and frequent social media arrests by announcing it is yet again postponing elections and moving to introduce a nationwide facial camera recognition system.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage eviscerated the left-wing British government for piling depredations upon depredations on the British people, as they announced yet another postponement of local elections without good reason, on the same day they moved to roll out China-style facial recognition cameras.

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Policing minister Sarah Jones was cited by The Daily Telegraph as having hailed the rollout of cameras as a major leap-forwards in the ability of the government to find criminals, including sex criminals and illegal migrants. She said facial recognition cameras are “the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching”.

Stalwart defender of individual privacy and liberty Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, warned the government was in the process of turning the country into an “open prison” where innocent members of the British public are subjected to the “risk of misidentifications and injustice”.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: britain; elections; england; europe; greatbritain; uk; unitedkingdom
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Some various thoughts:

Hmm. Canceling elections out of fear of being ousted from power. Where have we seen that before? At least they're not using the fig leaf of martial law.

As far as the bolded two items, its the latter that is the intended income.

Interestingly enough, it was a Brit who proposed the idea of a panopticon.

The Deep State wants this for the US as well. Think about the talk about apps and vaccine cards during Covid, along with denials of being able to work or shop, and in the case of NYS, the proposals to haul off people against their will.

1 posted on 12/05/2025 6:01:23 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

They have also shredded Magna Carta.
No jury trials for any offense with less the. 3 year prison sentence.


2 posted on 12/05/2025 6:08:30 AM PST by Kozak (Слава Україні Герояам Слава. RuZZia is a terrorist state.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Postponing elections? That’s what they used to do in East Germany and what they still do in North Korea.


3 posted on 12/05/2025 6:11:44 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I thought Breitbart might be overplaying what is happening so I read other sources including the BBC. Even the BBC reporting doesn’t show Labour as having a good justification for delaying the elections. Labour ministers’ answers on the delay in Parliament question time are a vague muddle with no specifics. This is a prime example of what happens when a voting population becomes uninterested in politics and is more interested in economic “safety” than freedom. They are lulled into accepting whatever the increasingly authoritarian government dishes out.


4 posted on 12/05/2025 6:14:55 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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5 posted on 12/05/2025 6:33:09 AM PST by greenbrier (( I said 'bait' twice, I hope I'm not disappointed...)
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To: Tench_Coxe

This is just horrible to watch!


6 posted on 12/05/2025 6:42:46 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Tench_Coxe

There is a solution……”When in the course of human events……”


7 posted on 12/05/2025 6:56:38 AM PST by Repeat Offender
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To: Tench_Coxe

There is one, historical power in that country that could put an end to this.

He is the CIC of what is left of the military.

Its a wonder whether he has what it takes to do what he must..or if that historical establishment is involved with this or not.

There are Brits on here.

You are at another crossing in your history. You value your historical culture? If so, do what you must. Time is passing by.


8 posted on 12/05/2025 7:03:01 AM PST by crz
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To: Tench_Coxe

And they thought Oswald Mosley was a fascist.


9 posted on 12/05/2025 7:04:39 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Tench_Coxe

The UK has fixed election dates.

The next one is in 2029.


10 posted on 12/05/2025 7:17:17 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Tench_Coxe
Gotta catch those extremely dangerous criminals who are making offensive posts on social media:

7-A089-C8-F-EADE-428-E-8643-22843-A05-E884-1-105-c

11 posted on 12/05/2025 7:32:03 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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“... major leap-forwards in the ability of the government to find criminals, including sex criminals and illegal migrants.”

Leap forward?
No, more like a face plant.

They already know these things.
Cops and judges knew about and allowed the ongoing rapes of children.
They have known and currently know where the illegals are. They’re putting them up into hotels.
... these things, they perpetuate.

The “criminals” they want to “find” are those who post, print and say wrongthink and those are the only ones they will find.

The rapists and invaders (repeating myself) will continue doing just as they have been doing.

I could probably be one of those “crimminals”, merely for posting these observations... if I lived in England (I don’t), or if I take vacation to England (No thank you).


12 posted on 12/05/2025 7:41:15 AM PST by Z28.310 (Overthinkers Annonymous suggestion; "Do not comply with others". ..especially NPD/BPD's)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Don’t forget Ukraine. Zelynskyy suspended elections there, too. For same reason — tyrants can’t stand honest elections.

The only fix is gonna be the King. He has to step in and dissolve the gov’mt. force an election now. If Charles does not do it William will.


13 posted on 12/05/2025 8:23:12 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Tench_Coxe

People listen to their televisions.

If only someone had made a television show about a 15-minute city, a village of sorts, with omnipresent surveillance, where people were treated as numbers!

Then everyone would of course have known to avoid such a fate!

(there is no level of /s that captures my sentiment...)


14 posted on 12/05/2025 9:03:35 AM PST by No.6
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To: No.6

OK, maybe that’s a stretch. Maybe it would have to be explicitly pointed out that the would-be rulers want to make everywhere like this TV place, some dialogue like:

[Number 2 is describing the Village]
Number Two: What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they’re looking into a mirror, they’ll see that this is the pattern for the future.
Number 6: The whole world as the Village?
Number Two: That is my dream. What’s yours?

That’d do it!


15 posted on 12/05/2025 9:06:38 AM PST by No.6
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To: Jim Noble

“The UK has fixed election dates. The next one is in 2029.”

Not exactly. It is true that a given parliament’s “term” is 5 years, after which elections have to be called. But lots of times there are votes of no confidence that result in elections being called earlier. Or a governing party, riding a high of approval, calls a snap election early in order to gain even more seats.

In any case, the elections being referenced in this article are for local elections for mayor, not for parliament.


16 posted on 12/05/2025 9:10:35 AM PST by happyathome
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To: Repeat Offender

Tpo bad the gabe up most of thier guns.


17 posted on 12/05/2025 10:13:03 AM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: No.6

I have the perfect name for it ... “The Prisoner”!

Iron Maiden might even write a song about it! :-)


18 posted on 12/05/2025 10:21:26 AM PST by edh
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To: Gay State Conservative

THEY DO NOT NEED CAMERAS TI ID ILLEGALS-—

THEY ARE OPENLY COMING IN BOATS.


19 posted on 12/05/2025 10:55:01 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Tench_Coxe

No jury trials mean they can impose their will down to your speech - if you don’t kowtow to the “state’s talking points” they can put you in jail for 3 years.

That’s MORE oppressive than China or Russia.


20 posted on 12/05/2025 11:35:32 AM PST by BereanBrain
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