Legitimate concerns about the safety of MPs are leading to a mistaken focus on demonstrations & the 'mob'.... as Stephen Reicher concludes:
If MPs 'make collective protest more difficult, it will increase rather than decrease the dangers they face & undermine rather than safeguard our democracy'.
As so often the #Tories are using a real issue to push forward a different agenda... #democracy cannot faction without a right to protest, but the Tories don't want democracy!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/protests-crowds-police-mps-violence
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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