MPs are planning to introduce a new law specifically to allow them to remove a protester who has been living outside the House of Commons for more than two years. With all previous attempts to remove Mr Haw having failed – a High Court judge last year ruled that his protest was an expression of freedom of speech as defined by the European convention on human rights – the MPs are now recommending passing a special law which would ban protesters from permanently demonstrating outside Parliament without permission. The move has, however, been labelled “draconian” by civil rights groups.
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Obviously stopping him being there altogether is draconian; but people shouldn’t be allowed to shout repetitive slogans through a loudhailer all day outside people’s place of work. Don’t people have a right to expect a reasonable working environment?
Not if they are in Parliament, Jason