Banning protest won’t save the Tories if a hot summer of discontent boils over into violence
Sound and fury from 2011: discontent with the government of the day boiled over into riots – and for much less reason than might present itself in 2021. Boris Johnson is hastily banning large protests – but will anybody care?
Here’s a disturbing truthbomb from Richard Murphy:
He makes good points.
Boris Johnson is promising a much better summer than we had in 2020 but the early indication are that he will disappoint us yet again.
As matters stand, history is sure to remember him as the prime minister who promised us the world and then took our world away from us instead.
So he reckons Covid-19 will be under control. Why are our health experts planning for another surge in cases, to hit us around July?
At the moment, half of the UK population is half-vaccinated, and there will be shortages from April onwards. That’s the reason variant strains of Covid are appearing; the virus is mutating to beat the defences of a half-protected population.
Johnson reckons we’ll all be able to resume our foreign holidays. How can we, considering the state of foreign nations’ vaccination regimes?
And Johnson reckons the UK’s industries are going to bounce back – what’s the phrase? “Build back better”? – with a boom during the summer. But post-Brexit problems indicate that any such economic explosion is likely to be a damp squib.
He knows all this.
Why else do you think his government has legislated to restrict protest events to the point where anything that is actually noticeable is to be punished with imprisonment?
It is exactly the wrong response. But he’s a Tory and doesn’t know how to do anything apart from punish the poor.
His decisions are all wrong. They are equivalent to clamping the lid on a pressure cooker and turning it up to maximum. What do you think will happen?
I hope I’m wrong.
If I’m not, I just hope that anyone resorting to violent protest remembers that indiscriminate vandalism won’t do anybody any good – 2011 taught us that. It is pointless harming the innocent.
If you’re angry with the government, make sure it’s the government – and its enforcers – who feel the brunt of that anger.
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i believe demostration will be violent in fact i think riots will happen if peaceful demostration is illegal! the tories have made some terrible decisions but this one could be their worst yet!