The town of Dudley came to a standstill last Saturday, with shops boarded up and the market cancelled. And why? Because one lot of self-opinionated idiots wanted to protest about something, and another lot of self-opinionated idiots wanted to protest against them protesting. Why do we allow this to happen? Why do we allow minorities to dictate to the rest of us how we live our lives? The actual reason for the protest and counter-protest is immaterial - I'm sure both sides would make a case for their point of view - but what to me is unacceptable is that they are allowed to disrupt ordinary people going about their legitimate ordinary business. I am amazed that the police apparently have no power to stop them doing this - it seems they can ban a protest march under breach of the peace regulations, but not a static protest. Given how much useless legislation gets put on the statute books these days, here's a useful law we could do with.
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