This article will be of interest to anyone who values the right to protest, previously a facet of democracy that was taken for granted, but that is now being attacked, along with free speech and the right to a fair trial by our current ‘government‘.

“The Home Office has recently published a consultation paper which hints at what was really meant by Gordon Brown's promise to look again at the law which restricts demonstrations near parliament, far from repealing this legislation the consultation indicates that the government wants to extend the restrictions on demonstrations to cover the whole country.
The current law on demonstrations around parliament bans spontaneous protests, requiring demonstrators to seek advance police permission, which allows the police to impose arbitrary limits on numbers and effectively act as political censors."


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