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Coming into Parliament throughout Parliament amid Extinction Riot protests was like “getting into the Glastonbury Pageant”, a Conservative MP has mentioned.
Sir David Amess mentioned it was “completely ridiculous” to permit the noise and disruption in Parliament Sq..
A protest by the group, on the sq. reverse the Palace of Westminster, is in its second week.
The demonstrators are calling for the federal government to take motion to stop local weather change.
Sir David raised the problem throughout enterprise questions within the Commons on Thursday.
Proper to protest
He requested the deputy chief whip, Stuart Andrew, standing in for Chief of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg, whether or not demonstrations on the sq. may very well be banned.
He mentioned: “Returning right here final Tuesday I assumed I used to be getting into the Glastonbury Pageant which I assumed had been cancelled. To permit the noise, the disruption, the price of policing is completely ridiculous.
“So can we please restore these orders so we not have demonstrations on a busy roundabout sandwiched between Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster?”
Mr Andrew mentioned that whereas “in fact the precise to protest is one thing all of us need to shield,” MPs “want to have the ability to do our job right here in Parliament.”
He added that he would move Sir David’s query on to Mr Rees-Mogg.
Earlier this week, House Secretary Priti Patel mentioned that she refused to permit the “guerrilla ways” and “anarchy” favoured by Extinction Riot.
Her feedback got here after protesters blockaded newspaper printing presses and quite a lot of roads and bridges in Westminster.
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Extinction Riot blocked the distribution of newspapers, together with from this web site in Motherwell.
On Wednesday, the brand new re-elected Inexperienced Get together co-leader Sian Berry advised the BBC she supported the group’s proper to protest, saying: “Protest on the streets has an necessary function to play. It is a part of free speech, it is a part of making the case to the people who find themselves highly effective.”
Requested if the Inexperienced Get together represents the political wing of Extinction Riot, she mentioned that the get together was the “political representatives of a a lot wider motion.”
She added: “You can’t separate social justice, racial justice, world justice from environmental and ecological justice. We’re the folks that may tie all that collectively right into a political programme and take that to the folks in energy and actually have our voices heard when they’re making new insurance policies.”
However her co-leader Jonathan Bartley mentioned he didn’t all the time agree with Extinction Riot’s strategies.