Two questions about yesterday's march

I saw only three Saltires, one Welsh Dragon & one Ulster Banner. There were probably more but overwhelmingly "Unite the Kingdom" seemed "very English"?

In which case I'm sure you will care about yesterday's march.

"Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said police faced a “wholly unacceptable” level of violence."

“They confronted officers, engaging in physical and verbal abuse and making a determined effort to breach cordons in place to keep everyone safe."

“The violence they faced was wholly unacceptable. 26 officers were injured, including four seriously – among them broken teeth, a possible broken nose, a concussion, a prolapsed disc and a head injury.”

In a democratic society people have a fundamental right to peaceful protest. The police’s job is to facilitate that while maintaining public order not to either ‘allow’ or ‘ban’ protests.

Anyone who spends time in & around central London, particularly on Saturdays between spring & autumn, knows that protests & demonstrations happen all the time. Only the very biggest, or those which spill over into significant violence, make the national news.

Had you been in London yesterday you might have felt differently. It was a fucking terrifying display of barely contained violent racism. You should mind.

Oh my!!! This is a scary perspective from OP

The government can not stop a peaceful protest in a democracy.

China stops protests, so does Russia but it doesn't stop there . People are put in prison to stop people overthrowing the government.

What you are advocating for is authoritarianism? It might start out OK but it means power gets concentrated to a few high power crazies and you end up in a situation of so many citizens struggling across the world - look at Iran as another example.

You do all get your knickers in a twist over a march. I don't remember this caring over the Palestine ones. No wonder so many suffer from anxiety.
It's not my politics either, but I don't care who marches. Besides, it's a fundamental British right to protest.

I do care when people sit in the road causing problems, throw paint everywhere, break into to military bases, chuck statues in a dock or set fire to a British flag.
Now who would do a thing like that!

@Sausagenbacon , free speech is the answer to both of your questions.

We have freedom of speech here; anyone can call for a different system of government/justice if they want to. But The BFI using its facilities to broadcast Musk implies an endorsement of his opinion. It would be very controversial for an art council funded body to take anything political position other than on the arts

Musk can say what he likes but he has no entitlement for anyone to publish his ranting

I don't understand what you mean by "actively"

Calling for sharia law would be classed as sedition in the past.

Really?

Actively like Musk did?

Do you think Elon Musk should be banned from speaking?

It would also mean anyone calling for sharia law should be banned as that too calls for the overthrow of the existing law and system of government.

Probably they can't allow one march and not another, which one should have been allowed? I don't actually think they can stop a peaceful march anyway.

The Musk thing was apparently 'a surprise' but it's just freedom of speech, although do we really need Musk telling us what to do? Don't they have enough problems of their own?