Police arrest 52 including republicans during King Charles' coronation

Pre-crime arrests?

That's some serious Putin-esque, Kin Jong Un, police state stuff.

A nexus of re-coalescing feudal privilege and the entitlements of the rich is forming blatantly before our eyes in the UK and the police and Tory government are its enablers. The rest can lump it.

their duty to prevent disruption outweighed the right to protest.

Horse hockey! They're inventing the crime and finding people guilty.

A poll by YouGov last month found 64% of people in Britain said they had little or no interest in the coronation. Among those aged 18 to 24, the number rose to 75%.

Listen to what the people say! It's 2023 and they don't want or need a royal family who just wears funny clothes while watching guard and military parades from balconies. This ain't no Disney movie.

intelligence that protesters were planning to throw rape alarms at the procession.

How are they going to prove that? Are they saying nobody should be carrying or wearing a rape alarm when they go out? I can't see how this assumption is gonna fly. It's too much of an 'iffy iffy iffy' statement. If a frog had wings, ........

'....The people who grinned themselves to death

Smiled so much they failed to take a breath...' **THE HOUSEMARTINS **

And as for the Republic cause, 'you can blow out a candle but you can't put out a fire' - PETER GABRIEL

A monarchy is not a democracy. Need proof?

Leaders of the protests were arrested even before they started using the new Public Disorder Law.

Democracy in the UK is no longer what we fought for in WW2.

Attention-seeking middle-class twerps with too much free time on their hands.

Support for a monarchy has fallen to about 55%.

The ruling-class must clearly be nervous to sic their guard dogs on peaceful demonstrators in contravention of international norms guaranteeing people the right of free speech. The frogs in the pan of "democracy" can already feel a palpable rise in the water temperature as life for the majority in the Tories' post-Brexit UK dystopia gets colder.

Well done guys..

Keep fighting..

Disturbing developments as the UK's downward spiral into a uniparty, democratic-totalitarian police state continues to accelerate. Graham Smith, the chief executive of the Republic group and five others were arrested near Trafalgar Square two hours before the parade to Westminster Abbey even began. The right to peaceful protest in the UK is now dead.

I am no monarchist by any means, and the coronation was really just a big show time event costing bazillions of £'s...but it was put on for all those lovely British people who can hardly feed themselves or their children, who cannot afford the most basics, and the thousands who have been made homeless and destitute, but hey, life must carry on. I was intrigued by the man holding the King Parasite banner though, and good for him he has ever right to protest, but I thought if he has ever had any government assistance during his life, and there is quite a bit of that in the UK, some well to do upper classes would call him a parasite.

Well said Lord Dartmouth. Most of them no doubt living on benefits and way too much time on their hands. Most people wouldn't have the time on their hands to get so worked up. Much like those Extinction Rebellion idiots who just create chaos for the normal person trying to make a living everyday. Super gluing themselves to the roads during rush hour etc. There is a right for peaceful protest, making a prat of yourself is just silly.

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Well said Lord Dartmouth. Most of them no doubt living on benefits and way too much time on their hands. Most people wouldn't have the time on their hands to get so worked up.

You have no idea who they are. Lord Dartmouth called them "middle-class twerps" so I guess according to you they would be "middle-class twerps living on benefits?"

There has been a Republican movement for hundreds of years.

Overaction from the police arresting leaders even before the protest. New Public Disorder Law taking away the right to protest.

Much like those Extinction Rebellion idiots who just create chaos for the normal person trying to make a living everyday. Super gluing themselves to the roads during rush hour etc. There is a right for peaceful protest, making a prat of yourself is just silly.

What chaos were the protesters making? They congregated in Trafalgar Square and didn't prevent the parade from happening.

I don't support the actions of Extinction Rebellion and nothing to do with the Republican movement.

I guess you would prefer it to be more like Putin/Russia where protesters are arrested and jailed?

How about all the striking working, are they also causing disruptions?

In the past 13 years, your Tory government has taken away many human and civil rights, once taken for granted.

u_s__reamerMay 7  10:21 am JST

The ruling-class must clearly be nervous to sic their guard dogs on peaceful demonstrators in contravention of international norms guaranteeing people the right of free speech. 

Sic the guard dogs on peaceful demonstrators, because the ruling class are fraidy cats!