{"id":69679,"date":"2023-05-07T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=69679"},"modified":"2023-05-07T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T07:57:43","slug":"the-tories-might-have-removed-the-right-to-protest-but-labour-let-it-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/07\/the-tories-might-have-removed-the-right-to-protest-but-labour-let-it-do-so\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories might have removed the right to protest but Labour let it do so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this tweet from Green peer Jenny Jones to be pertinent:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The consternation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKLabour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UKLabour<\/a> MPs rings hollow when you realise they did *not* do all they could in the Lords to stop the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PublicOrderBill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PublicOrderBill<\/a>. Labour peers must do as they are told by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Keir_Starmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Keir_Starmer<\/a> and at the final vote they abstained.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptg5ZV062w\">https:\/\/t.co\/ptg5ZV062w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jenny Jones (@GreenJennyJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenJennyJones\/status\/1655080277784289280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am aware of the anger of some peers at the time this happened, and their amazement at Labour\u2019s decision not to block this legislation which trampled our human right to protests.<\/p>\n<p>The right to say, peacefully, that Charles was not a person\u2019s chosen head of state was denied. And I hold Keir Starmer amongst those responsible for that. It might have been Tory legislation, but in the end Labour enabled it. We saw the consequence yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this tweet from Green peer Jenny Jones to be pertinent: The consternation of @UKLabour MPs rings hollow when you realise they did *not*<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/07\/the-tories-might-have-removed-the-right-to-protest-but-labour-let-it-do-so\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69681,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69679\/revisions\/69681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}