Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

That's what people like about Boris, not afraid to go the extra mile. No other politician would agree to this.

The police are the ones that requested water canon's, Boris just got us a cheaper deal on getting them.

Looking forward to seeing the police fail later when it comes to the black cab protest. Don't agree with the black cabbies, they just want to continue their monopoly of high prices but the fact the police are still trying to control every element of all protests annoys me. First they try and get you to meet with them so they can try and tell you what they want you to do, so organisers have stopped agreeing to meet them. Now they are imposing restrictions based on the fact protesters didn't meet with them.

The more they do this stuff, the more people will ignore them and refuse to talk with the police beforehand. Gonna need a lot more than three water cannons at the rate they are ****ing people off.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

38 Degrees member Neal has started a petition demanding that Theresa refuses to lift the ban on water cannons. If we can show there’s enough public opposition to the plans, it could be enough to encourage Theresa to defy David and Boris and keep the machines out of the police’s hands.

What do you think? You can sign Neal’s petition to keep the ban on the cannons here:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/water-cannons

He says: “The use of water cannon would be a violent and excessive use of force to combat protests on the streets of the UK. The right to protest is one of the most important aspects of our free and open democracy and I believe that the threat of this weapon will be an inhibitor to people of all ages from exercising that right.“

We have seen all too frequently instances of police abusing their power, and using unnecessary force to break up protests. Be it the death of Ian Tomlinson, or the assault on anti-fracking campaigner Sean O'Donnell, elements of the police force would prefer to use violence and aggression to silence peaceful protest.” [3]

Can you sign Neal’s petition and demand that Theresa keeps the cannons off our streets?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/water-cannons

Neal started his petition on Campaigns by You, part of the 38 Degrees website where anyone can start a petition to try and make the UK a fairer, more democratic and peaceful place to live. If there’s an issue close to your heart, it takes just a few minutes to get your campaign off the ground. [4]

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

Is there a petition to allow the use of live ammo on masked, violent protestors?

I'd sign that before the UK Police are denied access to a tool used by most other European forces. If the UK are so tough on protestors why do so many European crusties come here rather than risking their native Police forces response to protests getting out of hand.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

you could start one its still a free country .

i have just signed the get rid petition -power to the people .

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

We can't trust the police to make the determination if a masked or unmasked person is violent or not, yet alone if they are a protester or not. The Ian Tomlinson is a prime example.

Our right to protest is slowly being eroded by the police and needs to be reversed. It's solely the police presence at some events which caused them get out of hand.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

Whilst keeping the ban in place so people can't demonstrate within a thousand yards of parliament, that's democracy for you

Now l know Boris is mad
 

http://www.itv.com/news/london/story...-water-cannon/

The Metroplotan Police is facing cutbacks, and yet Boris Johnson is wasting money on buying Water Cannons for London Streets.

This is NOT a foreign country where we face riots every week. With all that money he is wasting on these cannons. He can put more coppers on the street.

To me it doesn't make sense.:(

Re: Now l know Boris is mad
 

Maybe Boris and Dave know something we don't.

like the summer's here. and there might be a few riots coming up?

Re: Now l know Boris is mad
 

They want to save the plebs the effort of stealing bottles of water, and the courts the time in sentencing them to long spells in prison for it while bankers and corporate criminals get nothing by blasting them with it at high pressure.

Re: Now l know Boris is mad
 

A boy and his toys..;)

---------- Post added at 11:17 ---------- Previous post was at 11:13 ----------

Two threads merged on identical topic.Please check that a topic has not been posted already.

Re: Now l know Boris is mad
 

Then again it wasn't that long ago that he was saying stuff like this:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35284526-post95.html

So now we're getting water cannon in London, Arthur's suddenly against the idea...

:rolleyes:

Re: Now l know Boris is mad
 

Arthur's opinion is always the opposite of whatever the Tories are saying or doing. As long as Boris doesn't have a fleet of mobile water cannon, Arthur thinks they're a great idea. As soon as Boris acquires a fleet of mobile water cannon, Arthur thinks they're a waste of money.

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

On second thoughts it might be good if they get them in to action soon. With this hot weather it would be tempting to start a riot just to have the police on call to cool you down with some refreshing water fun :)

---------- Post added at 19:17 ---------- Previous post was at 19:13 ----------

The control they are trying to exert over protesters is getting to the point where it will become counter productive and people will fighter harder against that control.

Anyway, the police can't stop you protesting in front of parliament if they don't know you are going to do it. That's why you ignore them now when they ask organisers to speak to them beforehand. They may be able to blast you with water cannons now but that is only going to turn peaceful protests violent.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/06/18.jpg

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

The wicked witch of Westminster has decided to chicken out of making a decision until after the election. Hopefully no riots break out before then.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-by-met-police

Re: Boris buys water cannon for London
 

So they have bought it without a decision on whether they can even use it?