Trump UK visit: police to mobilise in numbers not seen since 2011 riots

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Police are planning the biggest mobilisation of officers since the 2011 riots as thousands of people in the UK prepare to protest against the arrival this week of Donald Trump.

Thousands of officers will be moving across the country to contain demonstrations against the US president,who arrives on Thursday and will visit London, Windsor and Scotland during the two-day trip.

One chief constable said the resources that had been asked for were on the scale required “if London was burning down”. Firearms officers, armed counter-terrorism units, public order officers and dog handlers are being deployed for the visit.

Police chiefs said the initial numbers being asked for by the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) were too high and that they fought to cut them.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/09/trump-uk-visit-police-to-mobilise-in-numbers-not-seen-since-2011-riot-protests

[Freethinker65]

1. Trump honestly should cancel the visit

[olegramps]

7. No, I encouage this horse's ass to go. Let the demostrations continue register their condemnation.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. President Oblivious likely to react

"All this for ME?"

[Scarsdale]

3. He already costs

more than he is worth in the US. Theresa May really should cancel this visit. Fat lump is not worth the cost.

[turbinetree]

4. I really do hope that he see's this .....floating over his traitorous head he can't miss it

it will be over the parliament..............




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[Snellius]

5. "Bring the Noise Rally" beating on pots & pans

For the Bring the Noise rally, organisers are encouraging marchers to take “pots and pans out of the kitchen ... and on to the streets, banging to show our disapproval and claiming our political voice in public space”.

Go Three Lions!

[sdfernando]

10. He will spend 1 night in London only

those pots & pans banging all night in the street next to his abode would keep him up all night...of course, he would just spend it tweeting.

[janx]

6. On what day will he arrive in the UK? n/t

[Snellius]

8. Friday 13 July

[Fred Sanders]

9. Plenty of time for the UK government to collapse and the visit cancelled.

There IS Karma, and she is a vengeful lady.

[louis-t]

11. And dumbfuck will talk about the size of his crowds.

[Timmygoat]

12. What!

But he wanted to ride in the queen's golden coach through the streets of London to see the adoring crowds!

[BigmanPigman]

15. That's because his best pal Putin did it.

Fri the 13th...Hmmmm.....what could go wrong with the moron's visit?

[kimbutgar]

13. Why should the tax payers of Great Britain have to pay for all this extra security?

I’d be mad if I had to pay extra taxes for a state visit by someone so hated.

[sandensea]

14. All in a day's work for the Maydup government.

It'll be hard to tell who's more detested than whom.