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Protests Descending Into Mob Rule, Rishi Sunak Warns Police
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Following six weeks of public engagement, the Mayor of London has now announced that he has agreed to support the Metropolitan Police’s call to purchase water cannon to help enhance their response to riots or other serious and exceptional public disorder. The final decision on whether to license the water cannon for use on the UK mainland now rests with the Home Secretary.
I'll not hold my breath
He's right, but as in most things, what he says & what he does are two different things.
The rules about protest marches are much clearer in Germany. Those responsible for anything like the disgusting Big Ben outrage, would now be under arrest and facing a stiff sentence.
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Maybe Rishi is right, maybe the two comments below are right ... probably somewhere in between.
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Justice minister Mike Freer, who is standing down at the next election due to safety fears, said the extra funding for security measures would "not go to the root cause" of why people felt emboldened to target MPs.
He said unless you deal with the cause you would just have "a ring of steel around MPs" and then "our whole style of democracy changes".
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Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: "All of us will know that in the past few years we've seen two MPs [Jo Cox and Sir David Amess] killed.
"But what's going on at the moment, is the attempt to use those sorts of threats to MPs, which should be managed through proper security processes, to conflate that, with legitimate and peaceful protest, and to suggest that somehow people protesting peacefully, including outside MPs offices, including outside Parliament, somehow carries with it a security risk.
"It's a grotesque conflation, and it's designed, we know, to delegitimise all of those who are out on the streets because they want a ceasefire to stop a genocide and it's indicative also of a wider attitude about the legitimate right to protest."
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