Tom Southerden

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104 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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Pod Save the UK · Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

I don't mean to bum you out.

It's all just, it's working its way through.

Yeah, I mean, they literally are pushing on protest rights at the moment because there's another bill going through Parliament at the moment that imposes yet more restrictions on protests.

So one of the reasons why we as an organisation got involved in the prescription case was that we saw it as part of a much bigger...

crisis for protest rights in this country.

Following Black Lives Matter, following Extinction Rebellion, JSO, and now the Palestine movement, more and more laws have been passed going off to various forms of peaceful protest action.

So that's handing more powers to the police to restrict protests, criminalizing things that didn't used to be criminal.

Prison sentences and various other penalties for other offenses have all been increased.

I think they say, and I basically believe them, that they're quite happy for people to politely voice their displeasure at something that they disagree with.

That continues to be possible, as indeed your videos prove, right?

Yes, I haven't been arrested yet.

You haven't yet been arrested.

Yes, I'll call Tom, yeah.

He'll be like, you're going away for 50 years.

There's no hope for you, I'm afraid.

But yeah, so specifically protests, protests in the street, protests that's disruptive, protests that's a little bit, let's say edgy, protests that's a little bit not concordant with how they would like to see things going.

That is being very seriously pushed back on by governments of both main parties, I should say.

And it's particularly an issue in relation to protest.

There has always been a history of juries either not convicting or finding in favour of activists who are able to present to the jury their conscientious motivations for doing what they did.

Their position is always, well, we're not regular criminals.

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