I don’t like politicians. Frankly, if they ended up with their heads on spikes decorating Vauxhall Bridge, I’d regard is as a nett gain. However, if there is something I despise more, it’s arses like Steve Bray.
A notorious activist whose noisy protests disrupt Westminster every week may finally be silenced.
The Home Office and Met Police are understood to be considering a range of approaches to stop Steve Bray, known as ‘Stop Brexit Man’, from using a sound system to blast music outside the Houses of Parliament and major Whitehall departments – for eight hours at a time.
Mr Bray torments MPs and civil servants with pop songs played at 90 decibels, which also often break into TV broadcasts.
What Bray is doing is not protest. If he wanted to stand with a placard complaining about a vote he didn’t like seven years ago, I’d say that he should fill his boots. After all, it would be his time he is wasting. However, like the Just Stop Oil crowd, he is going beyond what most people consider lawful protest. He is engaging in targeted harassment, bullying and noise nuisance, yet still he is allowed to continue.
No reasonable person would consider the blasting of loud music for eight hours at a time an acceptable protest. This is a form of torture. I couldn’t work in such an environment and I’m sure that applies to others. This, combined with his chasing people down the street, barging into private functions and generally making a nuisance of himself, means that stamping down on his activities is well overdue. We don’t need new laws to deal with it either. The existing ones will do just fine. So, why aren’t they getting on with it?
For this, Labour-run Westminster Council would have to work with authorities – and be persuaded Mr Bray’s activities are not a genuine political protest. His actions have so far been deemed by council staff to be protected by human rights law.
Bollocks. He is not protesting, but because he is annoying the opposite side, we have petty politics being used.
Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson called on the council to act. He told the MoS: ‘If he rocked up to their offices with his music blaring out, they would move him on.’
Other options include tightening the law on ‘one-man protests’ to cover the cumulative effect of weeks of noise.
Exactly this. We have a grown man having a seven year temper tantrum and no one is prepared to stop it. Time they did.
I’m left wondering what the moron is hoping to acheive. He wants to stop something that has already happened from happening? Presumably he wants to get it reversed but how are his ridiculous antics going to achieve that? Well the short answer I suppose it that they won’t.
I wonder if Steve Bray is aware of what his beloved EU is doing to Dutch farmers at the moment.
I doubt that he cares.
Even if he does, I doubt he would care. Bray is an ignorant, selfish little cretin and a bully. All he cares about is attention. Or should that be notoriety?
Quite so. Which is why he needs to be stopped. Imagine having a work environment where that level of noise was going on continuously. It would drive me up the wall. No one should have to put up with it. It is not protest.
Ah yes, a true “european” in all his sophistication and rational glory!
Stupid, petulant child with all the self awareness of a slime mold.
All he can do is project his childish rage onto those of us who thought of our country. The point is, he’s not “european” because they don’t want him (and like minded morons) and they don’t want him because he failed. They couldn’t deliver the enabling act and they are never going to.
Has brexit failed? Well the vichyites will never relent in their petulant, spiteful sabotage but as I’ve said previously, in the context of what we would be had the enabling act been passed, ABSOLUTELY not!
The reich seems to have revived lebensraum (which was not just ukraine don’t forget). Wonder how far they’ll get with it this time?
Mark, there are probably slime molds that would object to be compared to Steve Bray.
Childish petulance compared to Brian Haw’s long running protest.
They even passed a law aimed at Brian Haw and others like him (the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005), but won both a judicial review and Court of Appeal case to ensure it didn’t apply to him.
What’s Steve Bray ever done other than be a nuisance, harass MP’s and others in the vicinity of Parliament and been given a free town house to live in (presuming he still lives there rent free as he was doing a few years ago).
I always find the term “activist” amusing. Someone who wants something achieved but does nothing to further those aims, and merely moans about the current circumstances very loudly to gain maximum publicity.
I wonder if Great Thunderbum would have achieved world fame if she’d been known as The Whinger?
I’d still like to know who’s paying his bills.
Sounds as though this is a wonderful opportunity to reinstitute the stocks.
If this drongo was locked in the stocks for a couple of days outside the places he’s been annoying, I’d say he might reconsider his behaviour. If he survived.
I’d happily take a day trip to London with some rotten fruit and veg if they did.