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saidsimplesimon

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9. Brexit Protesters take to the streets
Thu Aug 29, 2019, 10:40 AM
Aug 2019

What Boris Johnson and the Queen have done in suspending Parliament sounds like our martial law.

This link provides a slide show of the protest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-than-13m-people-sign-petition-to-stop-proroguing-of-parliament/ar-AAGsP5t

The Guardian via MSN

More than 1.3m people sign petition to stop proroguing of parliament

Matthew Weaver

August 29, 2019

A petition calling on the government not to prorogue parliament has already been signed by more than 1.3 million people.
It was launched on Tuesday by Mark Johnston, a pro-EU campaigner from Reigate in Surrey, a day before Boris Johnson announced his request to suspend parliament.
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Just after 11pm, the petition passed the 1 million-mark. In some remain-backing areas more than 5% of constituents had signed, according to a map attached to the petition. They included parliamentary seats in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Sheffield, Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Brighton and Bristol.
It is the fastest-growing parliamentary petition since more than 6 million people signed a statement calling for article 50 to be revoked earlier this year.
(Slides of protest available at the link)
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