Why does Government need to ban unauthorised protests within half a mile of the Houses of Parliament? Do MPs really feel so threatened by us, the electorate? They have nothing to fear as they can already escape.
Following the destruction of the original buildings in the fire of 1834, a Royal Commission decided that the Houses of Parliament should be rebuilt on the same site by the River Thames as MPs could escape down the river if Parliament was ever surrounded by the mob. Whilst surrounding three sides of Parliament, MPs reasoned protestors would never be able to block the Thames.
MPs feared for their lives even in the 1830s.
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