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Pro-republic demonstrators were arrested in London on Saturday ahead of King Charles III's coronation ceremony, despite having planned their protest in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police several months in advance.
Asked if he thought his arrest before the event was premeditated, Smith said: “Absolutely. I have no doubt about that at all, simply because there was nothing that we did do that could possibly justify even being detained and arrested and held.”
Other arrests were made.
The Met said it arrested 64 people on Saturday, including members of Westminster city council’s women’s safety campaign Night Stars, who hand out rape alarms and other items. Police claimed intelligence had indicated people were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the coronation procession.
We have a constitutional Monarch who is effectively powerless. We need a proper democratically-elected head of state. This medieval pantomime has no place in the 21st Century.
New anti-protest laws were very recently brought in further curtailing our rights and freedoms.
The UK is becoming very authoritarian and the police are being given more and more powers. Human rights organisation Liberty has a good article on the recent changes to the law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08, @12:26PM (5 children)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527 [bbc.com]
Likelihood of a few protesters removing the monarchy, that generates more revenue than it costs taxpayers? About the same as the chance that England and the UK will ever be taken seriously again.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 08, @12:36PM (3 children)
Roll on Scottish independence.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08, @01:02PM (1 child)
Peter Capaldi isn't president yet?
What's the point of a time machine if you can't go back and warn them?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 08, @01:45PM
Unfortunately not!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09, @06:36AM
IndyRef2 for Scotland!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09, @03:00AM
That was before the queen died. The royal family of today won't attract nearly as much media attention, I mean, look at the guy...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday May 08, @03:16PM (2 children)
I understand the British nuclear submarines base is located in Scotland.
How unfortunate for Scots, since any kind of successful independence on Empire will create Crimea 2.0 mirror situation.
Good luck anyway!
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Monday May 08, @03:46PM (1 child)
Yes, it will create quite an interesting situation. I believe that Portsmouth or Southampton might have to be repurposed. There are a lot of Conservative voters in those parts. Popcorn will be required.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Tuesday May 09, @08:57AM
Wouldn't Devonport [wikipedia.org] be a possibility?
I think the point about Faslane (HMNB Clyde) is that it is relatively easy for the submarines to leave Gare Loch with a minimal detection footprint, and that might not be possible from Devonport. There's probably nowhere else as good on the coastline of England & Wales; and I'd suspect a base in Northern Ireland is not top of the list of possibilities. Perhaps the Lord of Mann could be persuaded to host a base (joke)?