The arsehole Steve Bray is at it again.
So-called ‘Stop Brexit Man’ Steve Bray flouted the tight guest list for Boris and Carrie Johnson‘s wedding party to conduct a solo protest today after a friend and fellow campaigner was allegedly arrested nearby.
Photographer Sylvia Yukio Zamperini was taken away in a police car after turning up close to opulent party venue Daylesford House, Gloucestershire, Mr Bray claimed.
In a Facebook post this evening, he wrote: ‘I was supposed to meet Sylvia […] but she called me. She was searched by Police.
‘A police van and car passed me 20 minutes ago. She was crying and waving frantically from the back of the car. She’s been arrested.’
He added in a subsequent tweet: ‘Police using dirty tactics.’
Actually, they weren’t. He was trying to disrupt a private function. There is a time and a place for protest and people’s personal space isn’t it. This man simply does not understand boundaries – hence they need to be enforced to drive the point home. His right to protest has not been affected. His right to be an obnoxious arsehole, however has, and quite right too.
I’d also point out that protesting about a vote he lost six years ago makes him a double arsehole. We had a vote, he lost, get over it.
I’ve read quite a few books about the history of the Freethought Movement, back when the CofE was a force to be reckoned with the National Secular Society became pretty influential as a response and had thousands of members. Their protests often weren’t even illegal but they understood that they would probably be arrested and imprisoned anyway, the whole establishment was pretty much united against them. Crying when you get arrested for doing something that had a good chance of getting you arrested, not the same caliber of protester at all ar they?
This type of nonsense used to be quickly resolved by punching people like this in the face.
Having said that, Fuck Boris being ‘disturbed’ (we all know that). My wedding was disturbed because of his bullshit covid regs, plus my mother’s funeral. No wake, not even allowed to sing the hymns. Again, fuck him, hope he never gets a moments peace for the utter destruction he has wrought on the nation, the full extent of which is yet to unfold.
True. However, the principle applies whoever it is.
Do you really mean that we don’t have the right to be obnoxious arseholes. Damn, that’s going to put a lot of you, erm… I mean us, on the wrong side of the law. 🙁
Being an obnoxious arsehole is ok, going to someone’s private function and effectively gate-crashing to do it, no.
Pity nobody has ‘dealt’ with him.
In fairness, he deliberately sites himself in one of the most CCTV’d and directly policed sections of London, just outside the Houses of Parliament, so even if various MP’s would like to deck him for his offensive comments and harassment, they are reluctant to do so because Plod would be on them like a ton of bricks.
Steve Bray does what he does where he does it because he can get away with it. Anywhere else in the UK and he’d accidentally catch a flying fist.
Anywhere else in the world and he’d catch something a bit more lethal….
It’s not complicated at all.
He is infantilised and has a child’s understanding of right and wrong and a child’s view of the rights of others (I.e. they don’t have any).
How he grows up – if this is fundamentally possible after a certain age, which I for one would question – is the issue.
I don’t believe he ever will so he must be made subject to the consequences of his narcissistic and childish behaviour.
This will happen sooner or later. It will be amusing to the adults in the room.
I favour the punch in the mouth approach to people like Bray. He is not protesting. There is a place in civilised societies for protest. This is a six year temper tantrum and needs to be treated accordingly.
Yes i quite agree LR. One big nice knockout punch.
And a kick in the spuds. With toe capped boots.
“This type of nonsense used to be quickly resolved by punching people like this in the face.”
Apparently some idiots have been gluing themselves to the road in order to disrupt the Tour de France. Planet savers disrupting a bicycle race, what? Anyway, between race fans scraping them off the road and them being handed over to the police, they seem to have fallen down a lot.