Is Sunak right saying…

[Peeppuandpopo]

Mob rule is taking over our elected democracy ? ‘The defending democracy protocol’ sounds disturbing. Usually in dictatorships legislation has the opposite effect much like the 1933 enabling act didn’t enable anything but rather allowed Hitler to rule by decree. Could this be the advent of even more draconian legislation preventing peaceful demonstrations ? What worries me is that the usual hard of thinking will be quite happy to see it enacted, much as they want us to leave the ECoHR because it’s taking on the lefty do gooders. What do others think ?

Some of what is proposed I agree with - we do need to treat protests outside people's homes differently to those in a neutral public place.

But the Tories are clamping down on protest far too much - I think noisy protest for example is part of a democracy. We all watch the French driving their tractors slowly - this is democracy.

I do not think we have mob rule, that's just scaremongering and an attempt to distract. What we do have is underfunded police, courts, prisons, probation - if the Tories cared they would fund vital criminal justice services properly.

It’s a step too far with this statement from Sunak I think. Mob rule - really?
I’m unsure of his and the Tories end goal here but I doubt we are going to like where this is leading.

The politicians can make all the rules they like. As they are starting to notice, enforcing those rules is a very different matter.