The new "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021" is not just an attack on Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion. As it stands it would prohibit any legitimate protest by any trade union.
Sir Keir Starmer had to be persuaded to oppose the new draconian police powers.
One MP did not have such qualms. This is what Richard Burgon MP said -
"Under this Government’s plans, protests will still be allowed, just as long as the police say so, just as long as the protests are not too noisy, just as long as they do not cause too much of a nuisance, just as long as they do not seriously annoy anyone, and just as long as they are not too near Parliament. So protests can go ahead, just as long as they do not do what protests are meant to do. And those who do not abide by the new rules could get 10 years in prison—longer than the sentences most men convicted of rape ever get."
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