Many of these protests took place in town squares where proclamations were being read out, not in places of mourning.
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I’m not sure what you mean here. I looked up ‘state’ and it seems the word’s meaning is a bit ambiguous. If you mean our parliamentary democracy then I think I’d want the police to be part of that. Parliament makes laws and one of the jobs of the police is to enforce them. In the event of a dispute about the police’s actions there are independent channels (including the courts) through which members of the public can complain and, where appropriate, seek redress.
I suspect what you mean by ‘state’ is the current government, with the implication that the police are focused on staying in the good books of the home secretary, justice secretary and, ultimately, prime minister and that people’s legal rights can be trampled on to achieve that. As far as I know that’s how things are in Russia (Putin seems to control the courts too).
Is your man planning to challenge the police’s actions ?
The barrister who had the blank piece of paper (and was not arrested) was interviewed on Newsnight.
He was quite specific that he only protested at the public proclamations of C3 ascending to the throne, he did not and would not protest at any event linked to mourning/funeral of Q2
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I just turned the TV on.
Who the flip joins the end of a queue somewhere way out in Bermondsey when the head of the queue is at Lambeth Bridge? That’s a long queue, I’d be wanting the loo after half an hour 
Some nimble of foot meat man needs to get to that queue with their coffee machine and Tena pads. Serious money to be made
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And muffins. You could charge a fortune there for a muffin.
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I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. Their are essentially two police forces in the UK, the Met with their dual responsibility to the Mayor and Home Sec and all them others with responsibility primarily to their police commissionaire.
They used to be more linked in to local democracy but the overt Tory politicization via the Commissionaires (on the Met the Cheif constable title was replaced by Commissionaires summer time ago and had nothing to do with Commissionaires elsewhere)has inevitably led to more and sustained long screw driving from the Home Office.
You can see the Home Secs recent announcement of national priorities regardless of local ones as an example. I’m sure the latest Home Sec will be very much about Central control, so called libertarians share this trait with hard line socialists.
As an aside;
Due to its peculiarities, it’s not criminal law for a starters, breach of the peace arrests can be undertaken by any citizen. Best be sure before acting though, fucking it up could be expensive in the ensuing law suit for wrongful imprisonment.
Mourning Muffin: Special Royal Limited Edition
Decorated like a crown.
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Where’s Paddington?
Insufficient respect shown.
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Am not going to google black muffins while at work.
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Toilet break is your friend.
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Turning up to pretend to mourn the death of an over privileged 96 year old you’ve never met is the dickest of dick moves.
Being forced to pay for their ridiculous funeral and having events cancelled, losing days of work and the whole ridiculous thing is dickey.
Then arresting a man for calling a peado a peado but never arresting the actual paedo is pure fascism. Then effectively arresting or otherwise detaining people for holding up blank pieces of paper is just cuntism.
The grovelling, forelock tuggers that vote Tory and turn up for nonsense like this are everything that’s wrong with this country. They all might as well be dead for all they contribute.
More over, being a dick is not illegal in this country!
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CP have changed their mind apparently… I hope they get boycotted, but of course that would just get staff sacked, not punish the fuckers who thought of this daft idea or who put their prices up 3 fold for the school holidays.
Yes,apparently you can now stay,but everything on site will be shut
Hopefully families will have a dirty protest in their chalet before leaving
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