Reply To: Our chance to forswear allegiance

I popped along to the Republic protest, which amounted to 6 men and a dog (some girls in plastic Union Flag bowler hats were quite shocked when they heard the booing of ‘god save the King’. Apparently a extra contingent was being prevented from joining up, as it was the location for the demo was under a watch tower with police cameras on it. While I was there I saw the police confiscating a bag, which I heard contained loud hailers.

The arrest of the Republic organisers, who had *co-operated* with the police over organising their event could turn a mild mannered protest group into something else entirely. It also suggests that maybe co-operating with the police over protests is worthless.

I left before the king turned up, after a while in the rain, I just couldn’t be arsed.