Got my placard and the dog’s harness ready to go and protest the police and crime bill tomorrow.
The bill goes through the Lords on Monday. If it passes with all the amendments, it will make all effective protest illegal, including carrying materials for protest like these in the picture. Or if the police suspect you might be going to protest – which means thought crimes, really. What sort of a police state would that make us?
It will also criminalise the way I live, as part of the most horrendously prejudiced new anti-gypsy and traveller laws we have seen for hundreds of years in this country, giving the police powers to destroy my home, imprison me for three months and banish me from returning to any area for a year – just for residing in a vehicle on the roadside.