Just wanted to remind people that the funeral of the Queen isn’t until next Monday. These people are getting arrested for shouting at royal proclamations and ceremonies of remembrance. The Police here seem to have a zero tolerance to any form of protest, and that is indeed concerning. For those who object to public sycophancy and pomp whilst ordinary people here have to use food banks to survive (me included this last month) I’d advise waiting until after the funeral to say something. Despite all the public displays of wealth and royal theatre the UK is in deep trouble and is very unstable. When that has happened in the past the authorities here overreact out of fear.
Living in central London we have several protests per week pretty much all of which are tolerated by the police unless they go violent or piss off the general public too much. This recent stuff kind of goes in the pissing off the public category.
