Luke 🏳️‍🌈  

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Socialist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Tory, Pro LGBTQ rights, Vegetarian. Ex-Branch Sec & union rep PCS, MoJ
#GTTO #FBPE
When you’re getting indicted and your lawyer won’t stop beatboxing.
RT @miffythegamer
Nellie the Effluent dressed like she tripped and fell into the skip behind the Oxfam shop.
RT @Otto_English
Demo by @RepublicStaff now going on in Trafalgar Square
RT @mrjamesob
Surely arrests are potentially much more ‘disruptive’ than placards…

RT @redmcgill
This is the news story that matters today, not the circus around a worthless tax-dodger that exists to perpetuate deference and bone-headed patriotism.

To hell with your police state, your vile King and your life-denying sycophancy.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest

#RightToProtest

Police accused of ‘alarming’ attack on protest rights after anti-monarchist leader arrested

Graham Smith, head of Republic, among those detained on coronation route with environmentalists and women’s safety campaigners also held

The Guardian
RT @paulpowlesland
Republican protesters near Trafalgar Square being told by a Met Police officer that they may be arrested for public nuisance for chanting “Not My King”
RT @JimMFelton
Love my country. People can’t afford to eat and we’re spending £150 million deploying police to protect a man in an actual golden carriage and a hat worth more than Kent from seeing a “not my king” placard. Just a wonderful place for all.
RT @CarolineLucas
Whatever your views on monarchy, arrest of anti-royalist campaigners for exercising right to peaceful protest is chilling. Many of us warned about exactly this when govt rushed thro the illiberal public order bill. This is not what democracy looks like https://inews.co.uk/opinion/most-draconian-assault-free-speech-living-memory-now-law-2313273
The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now law

These powers will ruin the lives of those they target. The silence that will follow should chill us to the bone

inews.co.uk
RT @IanByrneMP
Whether you support the monarchy or would prefer a republic, a fundamental right of any functioning democracy is the right to protest peacefully.
These actions by @metpoliceuk should worry all who believe in this guiding principle. https://twitter.com/republicstaff/status/1654751380060397568
Republic on Twitter

“Organisers of the #NotMyKing protest have been arrested - police won't say what for https://t.co/D3Io5Nha4x”

Twitter

RT @Juliest101
This will be the photo that goes around the world today.

A peaceful protester handcuffed and arrested in Britain.