Brexit Protest and Direct Action Group (BDA), outraged by Prime Minister Theresa May’s negotiations, organised a series of ‘go slow’ protests on Friday ending in police prosecuting four pro-Brexit drivers.
The decision to push back the deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union infuriated Brexiteer campaigners who, on Friday, attempted to cause chaos on rush-hour roads and ‘bring the country to its knees’.
Slow and furious
The protest occurred after news hit that Brexit wouldn’t happen until at least the 12th of April. Group organisers hoped that, by causing gridlock on motorways and A roads, the demonstrations would make sure the UK leaves the EU at the end of the month.
The police say they spoke to organisers of both protests beforehand and told them they must stay in the slow lane and not drive less than 45 mph. Inspector Simon Jenkinson said the force was ‘happy to facilitate’ the protests as long as they didn’t bring the roads to a standstill. Yet protesters drove as slow as 20 mph, occupied all lanes, and caused delays throughout the south-west, Hull, Lancashire, and parts of North Wales.
Video of the demonstration showed a slowdown on the M6 in Lancashire, with annoyed motorists trying to swerve past the slow drivers while honking their horns, yet a tweet by Highways England stated there had been a few issues but ‘nothing of any major impact’ and that everything was ‘running as usual’.
Devon and Cornwall’s forces said their officers stopped nine vehicles who ‘presented a risk to the road-using community’ and prosecuted the lead drivers of the convoys for careless and inconsiderate driving.
Members of the group are planning further such demonstrations throughout the country and claim they have hauliers prepared across the land.
Group organiser, Ian Charlesworth said they are planning a bigger event in London on the 29th of March — the same day as the planned ‘March To Leave’ demonstration in Parliament Square.
‘Come hell or high water’
Inspector Simon Jenkinson, from the Alliance Roads Policing Team, said the campaigners blocked both lanes of the A30 towards Cornwall and at least two lanes of the M5 northbound.
“We recognise the right to protest and make views clear but we will not tolerate careless and inconsiderate driving on our roads.”
“We engaged with organisers before the go-slow began, they ignored our advice to stay in lane one and limit speed to no less than 45 mph.”
Meanwhile, the protesters’ Twitter account stated:
“BDA group believe that our government should fulfil their manifesto and EU referendum pledge to exit the EU on 29th March with either an acceptable Withdrawal Agreement or WTO [The World Trade Organisation] managed exit.”
Organiser Ian Charlesworth, who said the protests could cause ‘serious gridlock’, assumed MPs and the Home Office would be ‘looking at it’ but added he didn’t know how effective the protests would be.
Mr Charlesworth said:
“The ultimate aim is to make sure, come hell or high water, that Britain leaves on March 29.”
The need for speed
Minimum speed limits keep traffic moving at a steady pace and may be mandatory where emergency services might have difficulty accessing, yet the UK seldom enforces minimum speed limits and many drivers have never seen a minimum speed limit sign—it’s a round blue sign with white numerals—but you can’t travel at any speed you like without breaking the law.
If police consider your slow driving to be a hazard to other road users, you may just get a verbal warning but, in more serious cases, you may find yourself charged with driving without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other road users. This might mean up to nine penalty points on your licence and a fine of up to £5,000. To prove you’re guilty of this offence, prosecutors must show that your driving inconvenienced another driver.
If you drive at slow speeds on motorways—and high-speed dual carriageways—you rely on drivers to realise that your car is travelling at a much lower speed than expected, which may cause abrupt braking or overtaking to avoid you and is even more dangerous for large vehicles that need more time to slow down or change lane.
Slow driving is also dangerous on single carriageways where overtaking is difficult and it’s common for motorists to become stressed and impatient whilst following a very slow vehicle and leads to the possibility of erratic driving and dangerous overtaking manoeuvres.
One proposed method to tackle slow drivers is to introduce speed cameras focussed on slow speeds but drivers spotting these could speed up when they shouldn’t—on icy or wet roads, for example. So, while ‘slow-speed cameras’ would no doubt increase revenue, the chance is they’d increase the number of accidents on our roads, too.
What are your views on the Pro-Brexit protests? Was it a justified or selfish move? Are you affected by slow drivers? Tell us in the comments.
Perhaps we should start by referring to the left-hand-lane as “The normal DRIVING lane” rather than the “slow” lane! Until drivers use THAT terminology we persist with drivers DRIVING in OVERTAKING lanes. I’m surprised at PetrolPrices not knowing the difference, or perhaps “The police” really did call it “the slow lane”? Ironic really as during queues, the normal driving lane is actually faster than the overtaking lanes 🙂
I agree, there are many references to “slow lane” and “fast lane” from police members and others on TV programmes, I end up shouting at the TV! Also agree the inside driving lane is sometimes faster than other “overtaking lanes”.
True!
Any excuse to increase revenue!
Pointless and accomplished nothing
People are entitled to protest but they must obey the police request to consider other road users what happens if an emergency vehicle/s needs to get through and can’t because of people not obeying the police.
If they only stayed in lane 1 then any impact would not be recognised therefore go unnoticed and therefore what would be the point in the protest in the first place
Its the equivalent of doing a protest by walking round london but not being allowed banners or shout stuff
Totally justified to protest in this way! This is an attempt to ensure the British Parliament do the job they are paid for – honour the democratic vote result in the largest ever turnout ever seen in the UK.
Rather this than the violent style protests seen with the Poll Tax riots! Such violent protests are being encouraged by prosecuting people leading the peaceful driving go slow recently. The problem will not go away and we will see violence on the streets if the will of the people continues to be ignored!
I have never protested at anything in my 71 years, but Parliaments actions are an attack on democracy itself, and that is worth trying to protect using any means (just like our fathers did when giving their lives to protect this country and Europe from Hitler!)
People are getting this “will of the peple” stuff way out of proportion. The referendum so sadly and mistakenly kicked off by little diddy Dave Cameron has caused untold damage to this country and its people. the result was way less than convincing at the initial referendum (which was “non binding” by the way so could have, should have, been ignored). The matter is of such national significance that the requirement for a “pass” should have been set at 60%, this has been done before and would have ensured that there is no doupt about the result. Thee was so much mis-information and downright lies told on both sides during that initial referendum run up that the whole thing should have bee junked from the outset. the result was so close statistically that the Nation should not have been pushed into the current state of crisis on the strength of it. I just wish everyone would grow up and look at the reality of the situation and stop playing stupid political games with our futures.
Anyway, apologies fro the rant, getting back on topic, this go slow protest, will achieve nothing and for the topic in hand, will be counter productive to their cause.
to compliment other comments I think that the inside lane on muti-lane roads shoul be refered to as the “running lane” and all others as “overtaking lanes” perhaps then people would begint to get the message. I would agree that it should never be refered to as the “slow lane” The only exception to this is the odd area where a “crawler lane” is designated for heavey and slow vehicles due to a very steep incline.
Read the expensive, blatantly pro-remain booklet Cameron had sent to every household. It plainly states this is ‘a once in a generation event’ & ‘The Government will implement what you decide’. How is that ‘non binding’? Get off your high horse & respect the Democracy of this country. What little is left of it.
Johnathan. Contrary to your statment I am not on a high horse. The referendum vote was advisory and non binding and if you can’t grasp that you should do a bit more study….
so parliament voted and agreed to a referendum by a majority of MP’s, do you not agree that the people of this nation must have been under the impression that it would be implemented on whatever the outcome.
The Cameron Government were convinced that the result would be “Remain” and it would end the threat of UKIP and other EU haters within Parliament it’s self. How wrong they were. Maybe you should do a bit more study also
Fully aware of that, but the fact remains that it was a non binding vote……
It states quite clearly on the page headed ‘A once in a generation decision’ This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide. No ambiguity there then!
That is exactly what it says in the pamphlet issued by the HM Government.
Your first paragraph is from a typical ‘remoaner’ by the looks if it. Anything to come up with a reason why you lost the 2016 People’s Vote.
Not a re-moaner, quite the opposite in fact, but I firmly believe that a 2% margine on such an important and wide ranging subject is not a good basis for such a serious constitutional change.
Do you consider that in an election for MP in your constituency, the winner is by 2% margin of votes cast then there should be a rerun of the vote as when voting for your local MP is just as important to the constituents as voting in a national referendum
Bet it would have been binding if it had gone the remainiacs way.
Have you thought that through? Clearly if people who voted remain had more votes to those who voted leave, then that would mean “keep the status quo” – or as you call it “binding” – if the government had done anything else, then that would have been the opposite of what the majority had asked for – sometimes thinking about what you’ve written may help…
In case of any doubt;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_the_United_Kingdom
“Referendums in the United Kingdom are occasionally held at a national, regional or local level. National referendums can be permitted by an Act of Parliament and regulated through the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, but they are by tradition extremely rare due to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty meaning that they cannot be constitutionally binding on either the Government or Parliament, although they usually have a persuasive political effect.”
These so called MPs are a discrace to their profession. They voted for or against the deal based on their own personal preferences, not on the choice of their consituency. The MPs should have voted the way their area and consituency voted in the referendum. If you consituency voted out, then as an mp and a representitinve of your consituency, you should vote in parliament to support your own consituency members views, not your own idealistic ones.
JP. Being an MP is not a profession. You don’t need any qualifications (egoism aside) to be one and the perks, if you can get them, are magnificent.
However, they are on the whole only in their position of power due to the ineptness of the voters.
Join the discussion…MPs are representatives, not delegates.
When the first motorway was opened the signs read ‘Keep left except when overtaking’ as there is only one lane on the motorway, the other two are for overtaking. NOT fast or slow, as even the Police now call them.
Sorry John, Parliament’s “actions”, as you put it, are only representative of the actual state of mind of the country as a whole. The disagreements, confusion, and intransigence we see inside Parliament is just a reflection and representative of what is going on outside parliament.
Our election system gives us the right to endorse or change our minds about the people we elect having seen how they perform when elected. That is the system of democracy this country adopts – so why shouldn’t voters be given the opportunity to endorse or change our minds about such a highly contentious issue when we see the implications of Brexit unfold. Seems to me, the people who use bully-boy tactics to prevent the question being put back to the People are the ones who are attacking democracy!
If I was an mp I would simply vote on issues that my consituency members in a way that supports their views whether I agree with them or not. I’m put in a privalliged position to serve my community and their views, and I should uphold this. If not, I should step aside.
Totally agree. If Brexit gets stopped, the poll tax riots will seem like a squabble at a kids birthday party.
So, you want people to die and others to lose their livelihoods. Great. Brexit, the gift that keep on giving.
I don’t think you understand, but I won’t bore you, but I will say, where we’re all the remainders when the steel industry was being closed down, and the mining industry being desiccated along with their livelihoods and communities. Where were the remoteness and the E U. No****where.
Oh, and you get on about people losing livelihoods. Try living in an area that has been swamped by immigration, and people who have lived here for decades with their families can’t get a job because they are undercut by cheap labour from Eastern Europe. Try getting your child into a school that has no places because it is bursting at the seams due to the influx of immigration. Try walking through no go areas now because it is full of Eastern European rival gangs. There’s nothing that gets me more riled than people who live in and around places like the Cotswolds such a Stephen Fry, or those two on goggle box sat in their lovley thatched cottage, who have no idea what impact immigration has had on areas in and around the north, spouting remain. I’m lucky, as my area was largely unaffected, but nearby, there is a town that is basically overrun by immigrants that have taken most of the jobs, housing, school places etc.
On the 29th we should ALL drive at 20 MPH, that is what speed the POLICE would like us to drive AT, every where if they had their way
if you can’t show the union flag properly, don’t show it
Who cares these days?
The UK is slowly disintegrating as we speak so the point of having a flag whatever way up seems to be rather incongruous.
Go to Scotland and you won’t see many Union flags there!
Union Flag? I burnt mine today and destroyed my Badge. I am not too sure , now, what flag to support. Perhaps it had better be German. Oh! and I think the protesters should be shot!
How dare they hold the country to ransom by their behaviour. If they believe in democracy, how is this democratic in imposing their dangerous driving on others and leaving no option but to drive in a similar dangerous manner ? One would assume of course that they let ambulances and emergency vehicles through or does their imposition extend to those vehicles as well ?
But when 1m people entirely clog central London, so that no-one can get anywhere at all for several hours and several square miles are affected, nobody gets arrested and the protest is entirely lawful, and actively policed; how is walking slowly and blocking entire streets better than driving slowly and restricting vehicle flow for a few minutes?
Because a walking protest is not dangerous, where as this protest clearly was.
Legally authorised march. Legally run.
Legally authorised vehicle go-slow. Illegally run.
The EU and our MPs have been holding us to ransom for years.
Pity we can’t prosecute the government on their go slow approach to Brexit.
Isn’t the point of protest against the system a bit if civil disobedience. The police asking protesters on a go slow protest to observe a faster speed and keep traffic flowing defeats the point of the protest. The police and highways agency use rolling slow down to clear debris and sort out highway issues themselves is dangerous when they fo it ? They involved me in holding back traffic by going slow on the m20 once I’m just a member of the public, surely the irrational irate swerving annoyed drivers are the danger and need dealing with. Not peaceful protesters.
It makes me annoyed to see how impotent the government try to make the people when they legitimately protest.
It’s not duty of protesters to help the police who seem to be becoming more just civil servants and government tools to oppress free speech and freedoms.
I’m sure if this Brexit fiasco defies a democratic vote and works to facillitate the losers that go slow protest might be the least of there concerns.
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Because no-one wants to be late to where they’re going because of an old gormless tw*t. Old people shouldn’t have a say in our future, and can take their opinions home and keep them there – and OFF the motorway and roads.
Are all old people gormless tw*ts or just those who protested? These people have paid into a system that will allow you to gain a pension when you reach old age yourself. Yes Michael, you too will (hopefully) live long enough to get old & I already know that you will be one of those gormless tw*ts as you have clearly started early.
For the record I AGREE with your point about not wanting to be stuck behind slow drivers. I DISAGREE with your language, which reduces your point considerably. Anyway, have a great day x
Typical comment from a spotty faced young idiot who believes the world owes him his future without realising it is the older generation that gives him his future.
or in the case of Brexit case take it away!
Not all oldies voted leave. Many of us were sensible and realised the damage it would cause to all our lives (except the 1% of course)
I’m an oldie. Didn’t start driving until I was 30 years of age. As to having a say in “your” future – I’m going to assume you’re talking about Brexit. I voted Remain. Deal with it!
You forget, or choose not to remember, without “old people” you would probably not be here and the country would be being run by Germany! Like someone else said, you will be old yourself one day and I can tell you it is nota very nice place to be, please be a little more respectful.
To protest by gathering in a peaceful but visible way is lawful and a democratic right. To behave in such a way that other people are intimidated and seriously obstructed in going about their lawful business is bullying, unlawful and undemocratic.
Pat & Frank Try telling that to cyclists when they decide to demonstrate on the streets, seems the Police do nothing to stop them causing havoc while demonstrating
So the pro-brexiteers protest in the same way as the European tuckers do? That’s rich!
The police aren’t so quick off the mark when it comes to lane hoggers on motorways though, are they?
I recently drove at a speed not exceeding 65 mph on a motorway for a good 10 miles and passed at least a dozen vehicles doing less than that in the middle lanes whilst I was in the inner lane.
I abide by the highway code. It states that you should drive in the inner lane if you are not overtaking.
I rest my case m’lud!
“I abide by the highway code” – Well clearly you don’t if you were undertaking!
Actually the Highway Code doesn’t explicitly prevent “undertaking”. It is allowed for certain in queueing situations anyway. You’d possibly get done for inconsiderate driving or some such but arguably it’s safer to remain in the inside lane than swerve across 3 lanes and then back because of the idiots who can’t follow the Highway Code instructions that the left hand lane is the driving lane and that 2nd and subsequent lanes are for overtaking only. I don’t advocate regularly doing this but have on occasion done it when you’ve got some idiot sitting in an outer lane where there’s very little traffic, especially when they’re in the outside lane rather than trying to persuade them to move over by flashing.
Originaly the motorways were; Slow lane, fast lane, overtaking lane. Now there’s so much traffic on the road, it’s a free for all.
That’s rubbish. Lane1 (left hand) is the cruising/driving lane, lanes 2 & 3 were designated for overtaking. This was the stated reason for the 3 lane m/way.
A rather naive comment.
So what do you say to the millions of drivers who join the motorways and clearly ‘undertake’ those already on the motorway? Sometimes on the M25 for example, you are going faster in the inner lane(s) for a number of miles!
It’s the lane blockers who are not adhering to the highway code, not those who follow it!
Rule 268 allows undertaking in specific circumstances. It says that you are allowed to keep up with the traffic in your lane if the lanes outside are travelling slower. I wonder what happens if you can see anything else in your lane because all the sheep are outside of you?
I meant “can’t” see anything in front of you.
The police would stop and book the one in the middle lane for lane hogging not you if you’d not change lanes just to get past
In a week when the EU has announced its plans to limit the maximum speed of all vehicles, it seems only appropriate that we should all be driving slowly in protest at our delayed departure. The more of us and the more slowly – the better!
I remember the fuel escalator protests in London when I saw lorries driving at walking pace because the only thing they couldn’t do was stop; has the law changed since then? I guess it has but 9 penalty points for inconveniencing other drivers.. talk abiout draconian?
Not just inconsiderate and selfish this stupidity could easily be life threatening by crucially delaying people in an emergency situation. First responders, blood or organ couriers or somebody in an emergency situation being taken to A&E by car for example.
Its seems rather sad, people only wish the elected Government to what the people voted them to do..
What about surprise punctures or soft tyres that need inflating to conform?
Then you should pull over as soon as safely possible. That’s what the hard shoulder’s for or the refuge areas on so-called SMART motorways.
How. Sine they put in thes a**e, sorry, smart motorways, large parts of the m1 near me no longer has a hard shoulder
I avoid stopping on the hard shoulder as much as possible. Once drove from the M1 junction to Hartshead Moor to change a puncture. Ruined the tyre but I didn’t care. Not getting killed on the hard shoulder was much more important.
What hard shoulder. Parts of the m1 near me no longer have one due to the so called upgrade to a smart motorway.
How about elderly driving at 40mph in a 50mph on a country road(s)They should be prosecuted for holding
up the regulation speed traffic.
There is a reason its called a speed LIMIT – Because its just that, a LIMIT not a TARGET!
As Dave said, 50 mph in this case is the maximum speed you should travel at, it is NOT a target, you need to read the Highway Code. Driving at 25 mph in a 50 limit in certain circumstances COULD be deemed as driving without due care.
If it had been a Remainer protest bet no one would have been prosecuted.
Remainers don’t break the law! I million marched last Saturday and there were no arrests as there was no problems
That says it all. Leavers get arrested. Remoaners get left alone. Makes you think doesn’t it.
You kept to the pavement then did you? Otherwise you were in the road obstructing the traffic & if so why weren’t you prosecuted for jaywalking? One law for the remainers & another for the leavers by the look of it.
The London march was organised and all relevant parties worked to make it so. It was quite legal because of this.
It was a very well organised protest with full compliance to the law and in consultation with the Police and with massive publicity to alert the public. NOT like a bunch of whining brextremists hogging the road and all over an exit date that is now impossible and already accepted as such by Westminster. As usual anything ”organised”by the quitter mob is badly thought out and half baked. Lets see them get a Million strong protesters together – Never going to happen.
Actually it was 312,000, but then accuracy is not a forte of Project Fear ReMOANERS.
Thank you for reporting the correct figures. One million marchers……give me a break!
The same as the 8 million art 50 vote, Eliv Presley voted twice as did Gandy. It was all a farce, part of project hysteria.
Elvis Presley it was meant to be
The person who put the graphic together for the head of te article must be a Brexit supporter. They never seem to know which way up to fly the Union Flag.
Just use the flag of St George. Problem solved.
I can’t even be bothered reading the comments on here as they’ll bore me almost as much as Breixit and it ridiculous polarisation based on blinkered dogma. Personally I voted to stay in but wasn’t too bothered either way. I did think that having left the EU we’d just make do with things but the process has thrown up far too many problems, which should have been anticipated long before the vote even took place, but of course the Conservatives were panicked into a vote to save their skins. For all those people who seem to be getting really, really angry about the delays and calls for a final vote I’d suggest a) if someone is convicted or acquitted in court and more evidence subsequently becomes available that might change the verdict, then you have a re-trial, b) if you win a lovely new car and the organisers say it might take a bit longer to deliver it you say “that’s disappointing” and then accept the delay, you wouldn’t normally send them death threats c) if a majority voted and a majority is still in favour of coming out after a second vote, then what’s the problem? Methinks a lot of people are a bit scared that they got lucky the first time but in the cold light of day a few people might change sides. Of course if the a second vote goes the other way by a small margin (and I can’t see any second vote being other than close again) then I would expect the anti-EU side to – quite legitimately – call for a THIRD vote. This is going to run and run I’m afraid.
Oops, this is about slow driving, I almost forgot. All I’ll ask those supporting the go-slows is that if they were stuck behind a go-slow organised for something they DON’T agree with, when they really want to get somewhere quickly, would they be as supportive of the right to protest?
And so ends the Political Sermon from Iain Scott
Amazing suddenly there are Police dealing with this but never when idiots are driving badly or attend accidents unless your badly injured, just shows where the priorities lie.
Pointless and selfish. Quite right to fine them.
Whatever your stance on leaving the EU these people are re**ds and cr**ns. How on earth can they imagine that seriously inconveniencing every road user, Leavers and Remainers alike, many of whom have business and trade to attend, will advance their cause? The government has not been swayed by massive petitions and marches. A handful of fools acting dangerously should be brushed aside. Prosecute the lot I say.
It’s amazing that when remainers brought London to halt by blocking bridges and walking in the road there were no prosecution’s. But if you are a protester in favour of Brexit you face the full force of our, impartial, police force. Just an observation.
They had a permit to march and obeyed the police instructions
Ok, then they had a permit to drive. It’s called road tax.
They were told they could protest provided they drove to a required standard. they failed to do that!
How did they manage that? Road tax hasn’t existed for decades! But I suppose they enjoy living in the past…
How come I pay about £280 a year for each of my cars then?
It isn’t a road tax – it is not used to build or maintain the roads – it is a license to drive on them. The money goes in with general taxation. Road Tax as such ended in the 1930s I understand.
Quote :
Road tax in the UK was abolished in 1937.
There is a tax on cars and other motorised vehicles which ranges from £0 to £1100 a year based on the age and emissions of the vehicle, this tax is known as ‘Vehicle Excise Duty’ (V.E.D.).
Road tax does not give people the right to behave like d**ks.
Pro EU Common Purpose police farce,that’s why.
They did not prosecute the protesters that had London at a standstill. Shows which side the police are on . Leave means leave
Legal march. Permission obtained through correct channels. Cost of pollicing (not that we saw many because it was a peaceful protest) paid for by donations.
My daughter was in London Saturday and said streets were blocked off with Lenny of police around. The protesters caused havoc on roads as buses had to make detours
Lock them up – they have clearly lost all touch with reality!
Who, the remainers?
They were obviously mimicking what will happen to the country after Brexit.
Absolutely stupid protest, causing pollution and annoyance to law abiding motorists and truckers. prosecute the lot of them!
I always wondered why M.Ps are self employed, but with all the benefits that PAYEstaff have,pension,sick pay,expenses, redundancy and paid holidays etc. Maybe it’s about time they were employed on PAYE terms.We could then say that because a lot of unqualified people are wanting to be M.Ps they are being paid to much and lower the pay as in the real world!
If they were paid in buttons it would still be too much, the only thing they excel at is fiddling expenses.
When Leavers are constantly and systematically denied public and social
media platforms to express their anger at deliberate government inaction over Brexit how else do they act short of committing physical violence??
The Speed limits unless otherwise changed by law is 30mph minimum & 70mph maximum therefore if they had stuck at 30 they would have been legal but they should stay in the inside lane however the Law was changed & there is No fast lane only overtaking lanes but then by law they have to return to the inside lane causing weaving in & out of traffic overtaking & sheer stupidity
Using you car in effect to block use of the road is insulting to other road users and may cause an accident and injuries. Trying to make a political point that way is inexcusable
Ah well, if they’s been reMOANERS doubtless they’d have had a BBC funded police escort instead.
Is there any suprise at this attitude??? I mean it is perfectly ok for the fracking protesters to cause the use of ridiculous speed limits on the A583 by their inconsiderate actions. Just another means of raising revenue I am afraid!!!!!
Am I the only one who’s bored senseless ( putting it politely) about this brexit nonsense
It’s no more selfish than the remainers clogging up the streets with their protest march.
Deluded selfish idiots, Brexit is NOT happening on the 29th of March maybe later but not on that date. The Police should prosecute all of them for being a bloody nuisance and danger to other road users.
What about the “Remainians” blocking the roads in London by their Amti-Brexit protests ??
We had a vote, the result of which was to leave, for all those that voted remain….GET OVER IT !! It’s called democracy……as is our right to protest
Well done guys and gals we are proud of you and grateful to you. In our eighties but hope to join the march in London on 29th. Come and join us folks as we need to exceed the alleged 1,000,000 remained twerps!?
The majority of protesters didnt break the law, unlike the government who are supposed to represent the will of the majority.
Couple of points here.
1) We are definitely not leaving on 29th March (come hell or high water) as the statutory instrument designed to remove us from the EU has been amended in view of the negotiated extension and is now either 12th April or 22nd May depending upon whether Theresa May’s deal is approved.
2) Just an observation, but deliberately jamming the roads in London on the same day as a planned pro-Brexit march to Parliament Square seems a little counter intuitive. You will be preventing your own demonstrators from attending the march.
the whole point of that kind of protest is to cause havoc . Not every day but to make a point. If you stop reasonable protests they will become more violent as in France. France bring out farm tractors to block roads and bulldozers, earth moving, cranes and agriculture machinery will do the trick . Things could get a lot worse unless the government ignore the democratic wishes of the people.
Good on them pity this will not affect drivers in EU
Interesting that the commonplace daily misery caused by thousands of middle-lane hoggers continues to go completely unpunished, despite it directly contributing to congestion and tailgating, and being illegal… but people driving slowly to protest in favour of Brexit get stamped on swiftly and harshly.
You’d almost think the establishment are trying to dissuade support for Brexit.
I am glad the police prosecuted them for their arrogance of their behaviour, especially as I very keen on a united Europe.
united ? when did that happen ?
Tractors look out
stop abusing CASH COW MOTORWAYS (aka smart motorways) by
1. introducing limits far too awa from congestion and/or incident i.e. clear road and limit 50mph
2. keeping limits after incident is cleared just to increase chance of getting money from fines
3. setting low limits on empty motorways without a reason, for example there was nothing on empty M25 at ca 2am and suddenly all lines were restricted to 20mph!