UK gov't seeks stronger powers to stop disruptive protests

Since the Tories have been in power we have lost too many civil rights including the right to protest. My family, like so many others, fought a war to keep the country free.

It's the British people that need stronger powers to take back control from the "Establishment" of aristos, Tories, their paymasters and the monarchy, to boot. They are all way past their shelf life and have become simply unaffordable. Unlike Germany that lost the war, the UK lost its way on the road to modernization. The country has become a run-down, ramshackle "Fawlty Towers" of a society with too many "spares".

The Tory run circus is always a good reminder and reason for why I have no intentions of moving back to the UK.

The UK is a ram shackled husk of it's former self and I have no intention of being there once it completely collapses.

This seems like overreach. 

"The right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy, but this is not absolute," Sunak said in a statement late on Sunday. 

You just want to make it a whole lot less absolute.

"We cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public. It’s not acceptable and we’re going to bring it to an end."

If you want people to hear you, you have to make a noise.

The government says the new laws, if passed, will mean police can shut down disruptive protests **pre-emptively**.

As in, before they become disruptive? That's thought control.

@fattrain - I wonder if you were so outspoken during the many protests over lockdowns and vaccine mandates?

"Everyone has the right to peaceful protest. While there is no specific right in law, it is enshrined in the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, protected respectively under articles 10 and 11 of the European convention on human rights, which was directly incorporated into domestic British law by the Human Rights Act."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/12/what-is-the-law-on-the-right-to-protest-in-the-uk

One must wonder when the Tories will bring censorship down on anything non-Tory in the UK. This is a good time to read or reread Orwell's "Animal Farm."

The government says the new laws, if passed, will mean police can shut down disruptive protests pre-emptively.

If that is the case does the power of protest really exist?

It has not for a while; protest is only effective when it does disrupt the usual flow of oligarchical machinations.

Maybe Sunak can pose at a hospital while the police haul away nurses for protesting for fair conditions?

Sunak seems a total disaster to me.

This stinks of a pre-emptive clampdown to prevent people taking to the streets once the multiple hits of the manufactured energy crisis, central bank digital currency, and whatever lockdowns are in the pipeline are rolled out. They don't really care about the Extinction Rebellion crazies because they're just a sideshow. But they are petrified of mass gatherings against their destructive globalist policies, and you can bet that Labour won't lift a finger to repeal the laws if and when they get in.

I thought Brexit was supposed to bring freedoms?

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another bill was made. In the land of Westminster, in the fires of Mount Tory, the Dark Lord Sunak forged in secret a master bill, to control all others.

yeah im sure only undesired protests will be considered "disruptive".

Someone said that you have to fight for your rights, western democracies are obviously full speed on repression and suppression of rights.

The last thing the zombie Johnson brexit party needs is more power.

Tories showing their true colours. They will re-implement feudalism - the former feudal elite are re-coalescing with a few new faces. Time to doff our caps to our betters.

Coming out with this Tory "Minority Report" the clueless klutz, Sunak, has evidently been reading too much Philip K. Dick in this barrel-scraping attempt to fix the UK's industrial relations that have been festering in austerity during all the years of Tory misrule.

For everyone having a go specifically at the Tories, do you honestly think Labour will be any better in this regard? They're both as crooked as each other, and hold their fellow citizens in utter contempt. Parliament needs a full cleanout.

The British class system needs to be brought down.

We cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public.

That's what protests are and the only reason grievances are listened to.

If you want to preemptively stop the protest then address the grievances beforehand

for the lunatics at Extinction Rebellion, this law is for their own good and the good of motorists.

They're obviously mentally ill and its incredibly surprising none have been turned into roadkill yet.

Is it me or is a smarmy silverspoon tosser talking about limiting protests, just a bit on the elitist side?

There are bills/acts that could work in conjunction to have a detrimental affect on the right to protest.

Public Order Bill

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3153

Also .....

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/contents/enacted

Stealth, the threat of essential emergency services need to reach their destination without being hindered by protests and the present or possibly future governments bending this legislation out of shape.

A debate that existing powers can solve the issues at hand is needed.

That a fair point, Wobot.

I think change is coming politically.

If polling data, voter intentions are reproduced at the ballot box.

Then Labour will succeed, if not hold office in a hung parliament.

That could be minimum.

But in the confines of a ballot box on the day, anything could happen.

Martin Luther King Day,what would he think ,keep King dreams alive

this is how democracy/capitalism/looks like.this is how its real ugly face looks like.

An example of why the US had this little revolution back in 1776, to get rid of the Brits and their frequently oppressive policies.

Today's Britian is having a beautiful scenery when workers rise up and strike for reasonable wages!

this is how democracy/capitalism/looks like.this is how its real ugly face looks like.

But still a much better place to live than Russia, no matter how much lipstick you put on Putin.