Sadly Brian Haw, whose anti war protest has been a fixture in Parliament Square for almost five years looks, like he will have to pack his banners and go.
Yesterday Appeal Court judges overturned a previous ruling that a recent law controlling protests around the Palace of Westminster did not apply to him as his protest, started well before the law came into force. Mr Haw has been refused permission to appeal to the law lords, but his solicitor, Stephen Grosz, said he would consider asking them for permission to appeal.
Brian Haw and his placards and banners have been a fixture of my journey to and from work for a long time and just for that I will be sorry to see him go. More importantly of course is that he will no longer be a gadfly to our MPs and Peers or provide food for thought to the many tourists who flock around the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
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More information on Brian Haw and his protest can be found Here
2 comments:
Sadly Mr Haw and his lawyers knew too much about his rights and nothing at all about the responsibilities. I don't know if you were ever there when he was being noisy? It made life intolerable for anyone around the sacker. Because of his antics we now have more draconian restrictions around Parliament than would otherwise have been necessary.
No matter how just his cause his tactics cannot be justified.....
I must admit I never saw it being particularly noisy,just one or two occasions when there were people with loud hailers.
Then again where I work myself is not infrequently the object of noisy debate. A bit iritating but it comes with the territory.
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