Met Police accused of using human rights law to block Republic's protest

Evening Standard

The Metropolitan Police have been accused of seeking to use human rights legislation to block anti-monarchy protests at this weekend’s Trooping the Colour.The anti-monarchy group Republic said police had written to them citing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as justification for closing down nearby protest.

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01:21We do not want Charles. We do want a choice.

01:24We do want to be able to elect our head of state

01:27and have a better, fairer, more equitable democracy.

01:31And we want to do this for so many reasons,

01:33not least because the monarchy stands against our values.

01:37It stands against our principles.

01:39It stands against equality and fairness and democracy.

01:43We should have no entry signs on any of our public life.

01:48There should be no institutions, whether it's the Lords or the monarchy,

01:52where we are not allowed in,

01:54where we have no say in who is going to be on that throne

01:58or who is going to be in the upper chamber.

02:00This is not how a democracy should work.

02:03And we are forced to compromise our values and principles.

02:10The political party stands on the platform of abolishing the monarchy

02:15and they secured the majority of seats in the House of Commons.

02:19They all then, members of that party committed to abolition,

02:23have to take an oath of allegiance to the unelected head of state,

02:27notwithstanding their manifesto in which they were elected calls for its abolition.

02:32That's British democracy for you.

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