These boots are made for walking. Braverman to ban ‘slow walking’ protests
Just Stop Oil protesters carried out slow walking protests in various parts of London over five days this week.
Suella Braverman, who is on a mission to ban any kind of protest that comes to her attention, has decided to ban slow walking by adding a clause on to the current Public Order Bill. There will of course, Braverman style, be no need for democratic scrutiny or debate.
Reality and Braverman belong in different solar systems but this is law as Culture War.
Firstly much of London already has, quite rightly, 20mph speed limit and getting anywhere that speed is imaginative on many roads. Its doubtful that slow walking protests in roads really makes that much difference.
If it does, and it still remains legitimate protest, there is already a law that can be applied. Indeed the Met Police used Section 12 of the existing Public Order Act to require protesters to move out of the road and on to the pavement this week. On every occasion they complied.
In the meantime while I don’t walk as quickly as I did I still get annoyed by people who meander on pavements, usually looking at their phone. Can’t Braverman pass a law to ban that?
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