There will be plenty who continue to argue "but but but wot about the criminal damage?"

The criminal damage was capable of being punished under the existing criminal law.

That's the point.

Proscription was excessive, performative, and ill-considered because it snared even those making peaceful protest with placards.

These things were blindingly obvious to all who cared to consider them closely. So why were they not blindingly obvious to professed Human Rights lawyer Starmer ?

#proscription