Are we still allowed to protest?

[Nellee]

If this 'no deal' goes ahead, as it seems that it will - can protests still happen?

Will/can people take to the streets and get their voices heard?

Twitter seems busy tonight with people calling for BJ to resign. Can we still do it in real life though?

I suspect that if enough people are against something, Governments can't stop protests. Think of how communism collapsed in E Europe.

But surely no deal isn’t just the UK fault? So are you going to the streets of the EU to protest too? The EU have put silly demands in. I.e no airplane travel. How ridiculous! They don’t ban airlines from other non EU countries.
I see a trend on here from remainders ‘what did you expect, you wanted to leave blah blah’ - well I think any ‘club’ where you are not ‘allowed’ to leave, isn’t worth being part of. Why would want to be part of a club that won’t let you leave fairly and try to hold you to ransom to do what they want?

No air travel is a fucking Covid thing. We are about to be a third country.

It's a good question. It wasn't legal to attend a protest during the Nov lockdown. Has that been lifted now?

The EU does ban airlines from third countries, which it doesn't consider to have airworthy standards. EU carriers have to abide by their standards. At the moment all our carriers will have been certified to those standards, but as yet I am not aware of a regulatory UK body being re-established.

Yes, protests are an exemption even under Tier 3.

No Coronavirus legislation took that right away, sadly.

Had people not be scared of corona virus, would the Government have been able to stop a protest? I am thinking here of the time the Berlin Wall was opened. It was considered impossible to hold back the press of people.

Thank you - I'd forgotten that I'd asked this question.

Is there really an exemption - even under Tier 3? I thought protests had been banned because of Covid.

I wonder whether people will. I know it will change nothing now and may be there is no point.

I wonder whether normally people would be out protesting in the week before Boris made his final decision - seeing as it looks as though all he really wants is a no deal.

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020
Made at 1.30 p.m. on 30th November 2020
Laid before Parliament at 3.00 p.m. on 30th November 2020
Coming into force 2nd December 2020

Permitted organised gatherings
6.—(1) A gathering is a permitted organised gathering for the purposes of these Regulations if paragraph (2) or (3) applies.

(3) This paragraph applies to a gathering if it takes place in a public outdoor place not falling within paragraph (2) and—

(a)the gathering has been organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body or a political body, and
(b)the gathering organiser takes the required precautions in relation to the gathering.

General exceptions in relation to gatherings
4.—(1) These are the exceptions referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3(5)(c).

Exception 13: protests

(18) Exception 13 is that the gathering is for the purposes of protest and—

(a)it has been organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body or a political body, and
(b)the gathering organiser takes the required precautions in relation to the gathering.

Thank you

I wonder whether there will be a protest if no deal is made

It will make little difference I'm sure but this government is walking all over us.

I don't see what a protest would change at this point. Have any of the previous Brexit protests made any actual difference?

I don't think the alternative is tolerable. We we bend over and let them think this is ok.

Yes. Protests won’t make much of a big difference.

But I can’t sit taking this anymore. I can’t believe so many people can. There hasn’t been a squeak from anyone about protesting for ages.

I realise that’s because of Covid. But if we’re allowed I think we should be out there making us much noise about this as we can.

What are you planning to protest about? That the UK is being treated as a third country after leaving the EU?

We’re about to collapse our economy on the back of lies and the ego of one man.

Isn’t they enough?

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