Councillor Afzal Akram has announced a crackdown on small groups setting out stalls in the Town Square of Waltham Forest, an East London borough with a slightly overbearing awareness of public safety if Cllr Akram's example is anything to judge by. The reason behind groups now having to ask the council for permission to use the land for stalls is that it endangers the safety of the public. Presumably sitting behind a desk on a chair carries some unknown lethality that only Cllr Akram is aware of.
The small piece photocopied into the blog that I have linked to is rather amusing but it does hint at another encroachment into peoples right to protest and the right to hold a stall in a publicly owned space.
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