Steve Bray, known as “Stop Brexit Man”, was protesting in Westminster when police seized the equipment under new laws that came into force on Tuesday. According to the Law on Conviction and Courts for the Police, noisy protests are prohibited in a designated area outside Parliament buildings. Social media videos showed Mr Bray struggling with the offers and telling them “hands down” as they picked up his set, with one responding: “You have already been warned not to turn it on.” Politics Hub: Sturgeon sets date for new independence referendum In another video posted on the protester’s Twitter account, a police officer was heard telling Bray that he would be summoned to court to retrieve his amplifiers, while other police officers were heard warning him that he could be arrested if he continued to use speakers. to play. MUSIC. Metropolitan Police said Mr Bray, who has vowed to return with reinforcements, reported the offense – meaning he will be prosecuted. Speaking after the incident, he said: “Under this new law, this fascist law that has been hastily passed by Parliament, depriving us of the rights to protest, the protesters want to stand there with folded arms. “But protest has to do with sound and sight, without it you are not protesting, but they do not want disagreement and they do not like me. “The police came, they said if we continue they will take them, so I continue normally and they caught them. “I tried to stop them and more and more police officers came and took the amplifiers. “I was told I had been summoned and would have to go to court and they are being held as evidence, I will choose the jury trial and hopefully it will be 12 Remainers.” Police action was welcomed by former Minister and Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom, who wrote on Twitter: “Steve Bray spent six years screaming with a loudspeaker to me and many others as often as he saw us about the” crime “of the effort. . the democratic decision of the United Kingdom to leave the EU “This action by the police to stop his violent protest is very welcome.” However, Labor MP and former shadow justice minister Richard Bergon condemned the new law, adding: “For years, Steve Bray has been protesting outside the building where my office is located. It is possible and, sometimes, annoying – as protests should be! “It is another sign of this government ‘s creeping authoritarianism that the new anti – demonstration laws are being used to target such protests.”

title: “Stop Brexit Man Anti Tory Protester Steve Bray May Be Prosecuted Police Say Political News " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-01” author: “Joanna Vaught”

Steve Bray, known as “Stop Brexit Man”, was protesting in Westminster when police seized the equipment under new laws that came into force on Tuesday. According to the Law on Conviction and Courts for the Police, noisy protests are prohibited in a designated area outside Parliament buildings. Social media videos showed Mr Bray struggling with the offers and telling them “hands down” as they picked up his set, with one responding: “You have already been warned not to turn it on.” Politics Hub: Sturgeon sets date for new independence referendum In another video posted on the protester’s Twitter account, a police officer was heard telling Bray that he would be summoned to court to retrieve his amplifiers, while other police officers were heard warning him that he could be arrested if he continued to use speakers. to play. MUSIC. Metropolitan Police said Mr Bray, who has vowed to return with reinforcements, reported the offense – meaning he will be prosecuted. Speaking after the incident, he said: “Under this new law, this fascist law that has been hastily passed by Parliament, depriving us of the rights to protest, the protesters want to stand there with folded arms. “But protest has to do with sound and sight, without it you are not protesting, but they do not want disagreement and they do not like me. “The police came, they said if we continue they will take them, so I continue normally and they caught them. “I tried to stop them and more and more police officers came and took the amplifiers. “I was told I had been summoned and would have to go to court and they are being held as evidence, I will choose the jury trial and hopefully it will be 12 Remainers.” Police action was welcomed by former Minister and Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom, who wrote on Twitter: “Steve Bray spent six years screaming with a loudspeaker to me and many others as often as he saw us about the” crime “of the effort. . the democratic decision of the United Kingdom to leave the EU “This action by the police to stop his violent protest is very welcome.” However, Labor MP and former shadow justice minister Richard Bergon condemned the new law, adding: “For years, Steve Bray has been protesting outside the building where my office is located. It is possible and, sometimes, annoying – as protests should be! “It is another sign of this government ‘s creeping authoritarianism that the new anti – demonstration laws are being used to target such protests.”