Bob of Speakers' Corner

What we've got is policing by the easiest route.

Yeah.

So the fact that the Met Police basically said things are going to kick off is an admission by the Met Police

that the Muslim community will use violence or elements of the Muslim community will use violence and that they can't guarantee to have a control of that.

And so what we're going to do is we're going to deprive other people of their liberties.

Now, I didn't agree with the UKIP march because I think that they are genuinely just using Christianity as a vehicle of recruitment to UKIP.

I'm not denying Nick's genuine faith, but I think his faith and his politics are so mixed up together that the two things just go hand in hand for him.

And I don't agree with weaponizing a procession, a Christian procession, which should be about celebrating the Christ as a way of just pissing off anyone.

But at the same time, I want to live in a society where just because you're pissed off doesn't mean that you get to threaten the state with force and then the state go, oh, well, we can't let that march go ahead.

He should have been allowed to do the march and they should have been allowed to protest against it.

And I would have said that the march was unwise and pointless and a bit misdirected.

But the state shouldn't have allowed itself to be intimidated.

Right.

And that is what we see increasingly is the state allowing itself to be intimidated.

It comes down heavy on people in the political right.

And I've had three people inside the Met, two serving police officers and a civilian worker, who've all told me independently that two-tier policing is happening.

Oh.

Yeah, they've told me that.

Yeah, exactly.

And I'm sure I'm not the only one that knows this.