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Fined £10k too

There's a story behind this: who didn't give permission for this rally and why?

To hold a big rally in Trafalgar Square you have to do 2 things:

1. Notify the police (if you don't they'll hear about a big rally like this and get in touch)
2. Get permission from the GLA, who manage the Square (if you don't know about this the police will tell you, although I'm sure that Corby or one of the other organisers did know). The GLA make you get public liability insurance before giving permission (costs a few hundred pounds).

Corbyn says in that article "he and other organisers had filled out all the necessary risk assessments and spent two weeks negotiating with Scotland Yard over the event." So he admits he's the organiser, but doesn't say he did have permission (which he presumably didn't have seeing as he was arrested and fined).

So did the police say no or Saddiq Khan?

If it was the police was it because they didn't want a big crowd of Covid deniers getting together and refusing to socially distance or because they didn't want this rally to go ahead (which I suspect the conspiraloons involved will think - after all, political rallies can be allowed under the new regulations and others have taken place, like yesterday's 'million person march').

If it was the Mayor/GLA was it because they didn't want the rally, or because they were worried about a lack of social distancing, or could they just not get insurance?

Or were the risk assessments not up to scratch? Or were Corbyn and the other organisers too pig headed or incompetent to sort out the paperwork and just went ahead anyway?

I don't care about this bunch of idiots, fantasists and fascists, and fuck Piers Corbyn and David Icke, but I am curious where it went wrong.
 
There's a story behind this: who didn't give permission for this rally and why?

To hold a big rally in Trafalgar Square you have to do 2 things:

1. Notify the police (if you don't they'll hear about a big rally like this and get in touch)
2. Get permission from the GLA, who manage the Square (if you don't know about this the police will tell you, although I'm sure that Corby or one of the other organisers did know). The GLA make you get public liability insurance before giving permission (costs a few hundred pounds).

Corbyn says in that article "he and other organisers had filled out all the necessary risk assessments and spent two weeks negotiating with Scotland Yard over the event." So he admits he's the organiser, but doesn't say he did have permission (which he presumably didn't have seeing as he was arrested and fined).

So did the police say no or Saddiq Khan?

If it was the police was it because they didn't want a big crowd of Covid deniers getting together and refusing to socially distance or because they didn't want this rally to go ahead (which I suspect the conspiraloons involved will think - after all, political rallies can be allowed under the new regulations and others have taken place, like yesterday's 'million person march').

If it was the Mayor/GLA was it because they didn't want the rally, or because they were worried about a lack of social distancing, or could they just not get insurance?

Or were the risk assessments not up to scratch? Or were Corbyn and the other organisers too pig headed or incompetent to sort out the paperwork and just went ahead anyway?

I don't care about this bunch of idiots, fantasists and fascists, and fuck Piers Corbyn and David Icke, but I am curious where it went wrong.
It’s the new Covid law, introduced last week the one a lot of people seem to wrongly believe only applies to ‘raves’, ten thousand pounds fine for gatherings of more than 30.
This will get interesting, this man fought back and won exemption on grounds of his rally being a political movement but corbyn didn’t.
 
There's a story behind this: who didn't give permission for this rally and why?

To hold a big rally in Trafalgar Square you have to do 2 things:

1. Notify the police (if you don't they'll hear about a big rally like this and get in touch)
2. Get permission from the GLA, who manage the Square (if you don't know about this the police will tell you, although I'm sure that Corby or one of the other organisers did know). The GLA make you get public liability insurance before giving permission (costs a few hundred pounds).

Corbyn says in that article "he and other organisers had filled out all the necessary risk assessments and spent two weeks negotiating with Scotland Yard over the event." So he admits he's the organiser, but doesn't say he did have permission (which he presumably didn't have seeing as he was arrested and fined).

So did the police say no or Saddiq Khan?

If it was the police was it because they didn't want a big crowd of Covid deniers getting together and refusing to socially distance or because they didn't want this rally to go ahead (which I suspect the conspiraloons involved will think - after all, political rallies can be allowed under the new regulations and others have taken place, like yesterday's 'million person march').

If it was the Mayor/GLA was it because they didn't want the rally, or because they were worried about a lack of social distancing, or could they just not get insurance?

Or were the risk assessments not up to scratch? Or were Corbyn and the other organisers too pig headed or incompetent to sort out the paperwork and just went ahead anyway?

I don't care about this bunch of idiots, fantasists and fascists, and fuck Piers Corbyn and David Icke, but I am curious where it went wrong.

He said he intends to take it to court so we may have a fuller account in due course.

Meanwhile the Huffington Post has an extra quote from him:

"The order for my arrest appears to have come from on high, nothing to do with local police. When I asked the police, they said to me it came from on high. It was either the Greater London Authority or the government that indicated that me or somebody had to be arrested because they were clearly annoyed that we were getting so much success and publicity through the mainstream [media] such as [Russian state-backed media channel] Russia Today."
 
(i)the gathering has been organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body, or a political body,

(ii)the person responsible for organising the gathering (“the gathering organiser”) has carried out a risk assessment which would satisfy the requirements of regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 F1, whether or not the gathering organiser is subject to those Regulations, and

(iii)the gathering organiser has taken all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of the coronavirus, taking into account the risk assessment carried out under paragraph (ii),

I imagine they would say he has fallen foul of paragraph (iii) - though maybe he means to argue that all reasonable measures have been taken because none are necessary.

 
It’s the new Covid law, introduced last week the one a lot of people seem to wrongly believe only applies to ‘raves’, ten thousand pounds fine for gatherings of more than 30.
This will get interesting, this man fought back and won exemption on grounds of his rally being a political movement but corbyn didn’t.
Yeah, he's been done under the new regulations, but that isn't the whole story because, as you point out, the Million Man March did get the go ahead.

I imagine they would say he has fallen foul of paragraph (iii) - though maybe he means to argue that all reasonable measures have been taken because none are necessary

I imagine it's this too - hard to argue you'll take all reasonable measures when the whole point of the 'we're dangerous crazies' march is that they object to those reasonable measures.

"The order for my arrest appears to have come from on high, nothing to do with local police. When I asked the police, they said to me it came from on high. It was either the Greater London Authority or the government that indicated that me or somebody had to be arrested because they were clearly annoyed that we were getting so much success and publicity through the mainstream [media] such as [Russian state-backed media channel] Russia Today."

"It was THEM! Trying to SILENCE US! Watch Russia Today!"
 
when the express purpose of your event is to break health and safety regulations, I imagine acquiring public liability insurance is going to be trickier than usual.

lol at describing Russia Today as "mainstream media". that's showing up he's a really skewed perspective to the rest of the UK public there.

It’s the new Covid law, introduced last week the one a lot of people seem to wrongly believe only applies to ‘raves’, ten thousand pounds fine for gatherings of more than 30.
This will get interesting, this man fought back and won exemption on grounds of his rally being a political movement but corbyn didn’t.
I think where Hinds has succeeded but Corbyn is going to fail is on the definition
"(i)the gathering has been organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body, or a political body,"
which a loose bunch of crazies from Twitter with no coherent common political cause isn't going to cut it
 
Not very anarchist I know, but I'd happily clap from the sidelines if the cops stormed in and cracked heads tbh. Just watched a video of Icke shouting 'Freedom' to the cheering and worryingly large crowd.
 
Wouldn't that just create martyrs tho? Especially with the biggest celebrity antisemite in the English speaking world among them.

I just hope Icke gets covid tbh.
 
If it was just Covid related it'd be bad, but not as worrying as it is with all the far and alt right, conspiracy theory, and anti-vax stuff alongside it. It's a potent and appealing mix for many people, is growing globally, and is not something we can afford to just laugh at unfortunately.
 
The abuse of power over the poor by the rich, in a time when left-wing arguments have been so discredited in the eyes of many (by those with the money and power) is partly behind the growth in popularity of such dangerous nonsense. If the worker's power has been so eroded, against a backdrop of constant panic-mongering by the ruling class, I think that the seeds have been sown for 'the hidden truth' to appeal to a growing audience.

So, piss-taking is obviously important here, but we also need to understand that people have been deceived, and that they may be otherwise well-meaning. Not, I hasten to add, at the top of this charade i.e. the likes of Icke who are manipulating and hurting people. It's a deplorable situation when people have been taken in to the extent that they are protesting for their 'freedom' to hurt themselves and others.
 
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