LONDON: Protesters wielding pro-democracy placards and EU flags rallied on Saturday in dozens of British cities against Prime Minister Boris Johnson´s controversial move to suspend parliament weeks before Brexit.In the biggest demonstration, Thousands of whistle-blowing, drum-banging people gathered raucously outside the gates of Downing Street in London chanting "Boris Johnson shame on you!""I´m absolutely disgusted by what´s happening here," said attendee Maya Dunn, 66, a Dutch citizen living in Britain, who accused Johnson of "riding roughshod over everybody". "You just can´t trust him," she said.The demonstrations come ahead of an intense political week in which Johnson´s opponents will go to court to block his move to suspend parliament from mid-September and legislate against leaving the European Union without an agreement.Johnson, who only came to power in July following a Conservative Party leadership election, has promised Britain will depart the bloc on October 31 under any circumstances. His parliament suspension was widely seen as a way of limiting the time Johnson´s opponents have to organise against him.In London, participants heard speeches from opposition politicians on a stage erected on Whitehall before marching through Westminster. Some held hand-written signs reading "defend democracy: resist the parliament shutdown" and "wake up UK! Or welcome to Germany 1933". Organisers using the slogan “StopTheCoup” claimed as many as 100,000 people had turned out in London.
09-01-2019, 10:01 AM
Thousands protest UK PM?s move to suspend parliament
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