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Guardian political correspondent. New book, The Miracle Pill: Why A Sedentary World Is Getting It All Wrong, out Jan 21 (Simon & Schuster). PGP: http://bit.ly/29xs4sa 

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    Peter Walker‏Verified account @peterwalker99 14 Jun 2020

    Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds says Labour would potentially supported mooted new law to make vandalising war memorials punishable with 10 years in jail. A sign the new Labour home affairs/law & order approach is *much* less liberal under Keir Starmer.

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      2. Peter Walker‏Verified account @peterwalker99 14 Jun 2020

        A cynic might say that in not disagreeing with the plan, Labour safely avoids a Daily Mail headline, while the ten-year jail plan – like many knee-jerk legal ideas - probably won't become law anyway. But as an indicator of approach, it's quite something.

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      3. Peter Walker‏Verified account @peterwalker99 14 Jun 2020

        Among the many obvious flaws to the new law: what constitutes a war memorial in this context? Just a cenotaph? Or would Churchill's statue – as a wartime leader – count? If so, would it also apply to any statue of a military figure? Just 20th century ones? Just British ones?

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      1. Decorium‏ @Decorium 14 Jun 2020
        Replying to @peterwalker99

        would a starmer led government actually be any better than the current one? increasingly reactionary statements from labour suggest not

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      1. Makecyclingsafeagain‏ @Makecyclingsafe 14 Jun 2020
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        Seems extreme when death by dangerous driving often is a fraction of that.

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      1. Gareth Evans Gammonologist  🕷 💙‏ @gareth0108 14 Jun 2020
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        you don’t need to be cynical to see labour become petrified of the oligarchs again the only question now is how they will be blamed for the catastrophic brexit to follow covid

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      2. Gareth‏ @gareth2111 14 Jun 2020
        Replying to @peterwalker99

        Let’s have it right, he said he didn’t disagree with some kind of punishment for desecration of war memorials, none of us would have said any different. If he’d said not 10 years in jail, Ridge would have said how many years etc.

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      3. Peter Walker‏Verified account @peterwalker99 14 Jun 2020
        Replying to @gareth2111

        Lots of people would have disagreed. There's no need I can see for a specific new law, let alone one with longer jail sentences.

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      1. Social Ruwan‏ @SocialRuwan 14 Jun 2020
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        The Right loves to imply that ‘Political Correctness’ is all to how wrong it is to redress imbalances in society, when in reality it is they who love to impose their ‘thought police’ tactics to maintain their control over us! How on earth can anyone of conscience support this?

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      2. Steve Rutter‏ @steverutter8 14 Jun 2020
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        A sign that Starmer might be attempting to build a party that's actually got a chance of winning an election...

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      3. Joseph R‏ @joecryptosocdem 14 Jun 2020
        Replying to @steverutter8 @peterwalker99

        Yeah: people need to focus on the end goal of replacing a brutal, racist, oppressive society run by Boris Johnson with a brutal, racist, oppressive society run by Sir Keir Starmer.

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