Really the police arrests have tarnished it for me, they were protesting peacefully, worse this will happen after the coronation.

King Charles subjects would have more freedom of expression in Moscow.

I am actually a sucker for all the pageantry, pomp and circumstance, and Prince Charles I feel I grew up with him.

But I am a citizen, not a serf, and I do not wish to live in a type of authoritarian Ruritania.

I know, when I look behind the glitz, that the monarchy is not an advert for us, it is a corrupt organisation squirreling away a massive fortune by avoiding taxes, it is a mafia wit a smiling face.

Their lands and property are totally useless to the people who pay for them.

The commonwealth is turning against them.

Elizabeth II, I have seen elsewhere, should have been the last monarch, I support that view.

Apparently, they only actually arrested 52 who were suspected of the intention to use rape alarms to spook the horses in the parade. The remaining one hundred or so protesters were allowed to continue their peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square.

Can you justify why the police should not have arrested people who had expressed (in public social media converstions) their intention to do this - and act which if successful could have resulted in carnage among innocent spectators?

Can you actually comprehend how much damage, and even death, that several massive, out-of-control horses can do in a panic situation?

Edited by becky (07 May 2023 8.08pm)

Perhaps, just perhaps, if the anti-everything movement hadn’t resorted recently to closing motorways, closing the Dartford Crossing Bridge, blocking traffic when people are trying to get to work etc. then maybe, just maybe, the recently introduced laws which you complain about wouldn’t have been necessary. Most sensible people could see these laws coming due to the actions of the protest groups.

None of those things were present here, and even if they were it would be a small price to pay for our freedom.

The job the police should be doing, clearing up crime, they are rubbish at, you are lucky if they can even be bothered.

I used to berate the tories for cutting numbers, now they are restored I wish they had never bothered.

Once you start arresting people in anticipation of what they might do rather than what they have done, you're living in the first days of a failing state. Because when you open that particular set of floodgates, history repeatedly tells you where you end up. And it's not a good place. What you describe above is simply the failure to adequately police one specific group and, rather than improve the way they're being policed, you deem it easier to just arrest anyone and everyone in case they behave the same way. Once you start doing that, abuse of such outrageous powers inevitably follows. That's anything but competent policing and it's a fast road to making society far more dangerous, not safer.

I would have thought forcefully removed to eliminate the potential for disruption which could cause harm to innocent attendees was more the case. ‘Arrested’ means something different. It means they have committed a crime. The fact they needed handcuffs clearly shows how single minded the protesters were. Ironically you could use your analogy on any given recent terrorist arrest for conspiring or preparing to commit acts of terror. Would you be happy if the plod waited for the bomb, bullet or knife attack before acting just to fulfil the uman rights of said person !?

Edited by cryrst (08 May 2023 5.54am)