As of midnight, protest is effectively illegal in the UK.
(www.opendemocracy.net)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (27)
sorted by:
We just introduced new protest laws in South Australia which some have argued will have a chilling effect. But in reality all that was banned was the stupid forms of protest like gluing yourself to something, throwing paint on something, stopping traffic etc. You can still walk with your placard on the sidewalks and have your say but you can no longer fuck around with people going about their daily business which I am all for. The biggest losers for us from this were Extinction Rebellion, and those fuckers deserve to die anyway.
You won't be able to walk or stand in any public place with a placard in silence now. The concept of disruption is already in place and I posted about the consequences of that in an earlier post. This introduces the concept of "inconvenience" which is vague and widely interpreted by the Police. One of the arguments the Police could use to take action against you is that you are standing in a place that someone else wishes to walk through or pause in. That could apply to literary any atom of public place.
The ultimate goal is to ban dissent. But it won't be applied to the likes of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil because they have the correct ideology of supporting Net Zero and/or are useful idiots in the eyes of the Government to implement even more powers. This will be applied to opposition parties, not those who follow the Tory line but including the likes of Reform, Reclaim and other minority parties, protesters critical of migration such as Tommy Robinson, anti-lockdown protesters and those critical of monarchy.