[Serenacula]

What they protest about does not matter. Removing the ability to protest does.

If you allow them to crack down on protesting, then it won't be long before we're getting black-bagged, and dear old aunty will go on "extended holiday" because she disagreed with the government position.

We've seen it happen many times in the last century, in countries across the world, and the UK has been getting steadily worse over the last 20 years.

The slow creep of authoritarianism has seen many scary laws getting passed and practically no media attention on them. Everyone just shrugs, rather than actually trying to defend our freedom.

[tpoacher]

Which is exactly why when I see extreme protests I'm more inclined to believe they are staged by the opposition rather than out of genuine stupidity.

I'm often wrong, obviously.