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Ooh, blind me. What a show you've got today. It is a big show and it's a very important

show. I think it's worth just pointing out, just spelling something out. Our democracy

was not given to us as an act of goodwill and charity by the powerful. It was fought for

at great cost and great sacrifice by people who were often demonized, reviled, attacked by

police officers with truncheons in their faces, kicked to the ground by the police for that matter,

spat out in the street, demonized by the media, thrown into prison cells and in various parts of

our history, tortured and indeed murdered. That's how democracy was won. It was fought for

over a very, very, very long period of time. And democracy is not something which is permanent.

Those rights and freedoms are not won for all eternity. They are constantly threatened by the

powerful. And I think that context is important for what we're talking about today, which is

it is striking how many established figures will look back at protests in the past and

lord them. But of course, those protesters at the time they speak of were demonized and hated

and attacked by police officers. But they will never do that about any which happened or exist

today. Now I'm going to start by we're going to just give a bit of context before we bring in some

eyewitnesses, journalists as well as protesters. And later on we'll be talking as well at the end

of the program to a appropriately known for Bristol Labour former candidate who's been

deselected for excessively criticising Keir Starmer. We'll talk about Labour at the end of the

program, which is his own burning skip in its own right. So I think that may have taken separately.

In terms of what happened in Bristol. So we've had protests which really began last Sunday against

the repressive policing bill, which gives the police massive power to essentially ban any protests

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