Cuts Kill, Turban Traveller & Brexit Bullies – The world exterior the Homes of Parliament was busy on Wednesday nineteenth December 2018 with a protest by Disabled Folks In opposition to Cuts, a welcome for a driver who had come from Delhi and arguments between remainers and Brexiteers. However essentially the most newsworthy occasion was when a small group of utmost proper Brexiteers noticed MP Anna Soubry strolling to Parliament and went to harass her. By then different photographers had drifted off and I used to be the one photographer on the scene. It made the information headlines and although the the press accounts had been laughably inaccurate, a few of my footage did get used even when my story filed with them was ignored.
As regular you possibly can learn extra about all of those occasions and see extra footage by following the hyperlinks to My London Diary under.
Cuts kill disabled individuals say protesters – Previous Palace Yard
Incapacity teams DPAC (Disabled Folks In opposition to Cuts) and MHRN (Psychological Well being Resistance Community) along with WOW marketing campaign protested in assist of the parliamentary debate due later within the day on the cumulative influence of the cuts on the lives of disabled individuals.
Laura Pidcock, then Labour MP for North West Durham and Lib-Dem peer Lord Roberts of Llandudno got here out to speak with and assist the protesters who mentioned the the adjustments in advantages and inappropriate use of sanctions had been leading to nice hardship, denying individuals their rights and inflicting many deaths. Labour MP for Ealing Virendra Sharma, there for an additional occasion additionally had a prolonged speak with the protesters.
Cuts kill disabled individuals say protesters
MP welcomes Delhi to London driver
British-Indian Labour MP for Ealing Southall Virendra Sharma whose constituency consists of very many Sikhs and people from different Indian communities had come out to to welcome The ‘Turban Traveller‘, a Sikh with a movie crew from Artistic Idea Movies in Delhi who arrived in London in the present day after driving overland from Delhi.
MP welcomes Delhi to London driver
Excessive Brexiteers Conflict with SODEM
A small group of utmost right-wing pro-Brexit protesters had come to shout and argue with protesters from SODEM (Stand of Defiance European Motion) and to shout private insults at Steven Bray who had based SODEM in September 2017.
They accused Bray of being a drunk and requested “Who funds Drunk Steve“, a query that was somewhat redundant as two massive banners had been lined with logos of organisations supporting SODEM’s every day pickets.
Police warned the Brexiteers concerning the language they had been utilizing and had been accused of taking sides, however the SODEM individuals weren’t shouting and utilizing offensive language. Finally the Brexiteers moved away to proceed their protest on the pavement in entrance of the Homes of Parliament.
Extremist Brexiteers conflict with SODEM
Extremist Brexiteers at Parliament
A small group of utmost proper Brexiteers sporting high-viz vests with Union flags and the message ‘Justice for Our Boys’ protested exterior parliament calling for a right away Brexit and tried to cease automobiles leaving parliament however had been moved away by police.
I recognised a lot of them; some from the video of an assault on the socialist bookshop Bookmarks earlier within the yr and others from protests by the EDL and different excessive proper teams.
A few of them then went to attempt to enter the by the guests entrance and I went with them and took extra footage. However most quickly left, most likely to a close-by pub.
Extremist Brexiteers at parliament
Anna Soubry MP Harassed by Extremists
I hung round watching the few who remained when all the opposite photographers had moved away to file their footage of the protest on the gates to parliament, questioning what they could do subsequent.
One among them shouted to the others as he recognised Conservative MP Anna Soubry strolling alongside the pavement to enter the Home of Commons, and so they met her and started calling her a traitor and asking her means she was suggesting there is perhaps a second referendum. She clearly knew the person main the group, addressing him by title.
She tried to stroll away alongside the pavement, however they adopted, some standing in her means (and in mine) and after one other within the group shouted at her ‘You fucking traitor!’ she turned to one of many a number of law enforcement officials round and complained to him that this was an offence, and remained standing near him.
Different officers got here throughout to assist and rapidly escorted her away and into Parliament. There have been no quick arrests, however the incident later grew to become topic to an inquiry by the speaker of the home, who prolonged his sympathy to Ms Soubry.
In later interviews she complained that she had been in comparison with the Nazis, however I had not heard this at any level within the exchanges. Although as I wrote. “I used to be busy shifting backwards in a reasonably confined area whereas making an attempt to maintain her in shot whereas she was strolling briskly away, with one of many protesters who was filming on his telephone in my means.”
It was actually an disagreeable incident however maybe one which grew to become somewhat exaggerated. She was by no means in any actual hazard and though the questioning was actually loud and aggresive she responded to it in a equally forceful method. One thing that is perhaps described by that outdated cliché because the “tough and tumble of politics”. I used to be somewhat stunned that she had not earlier merely requested one of many many police standing round for help or that none of them had seen and heard as I had and are available to assist.
I rushed away to file my footage, and whereas one or two of those had been pretty broadly used I used to be by no means contacted about what occurred regardless of being the one actual witness to the occasion.
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