It must be a hard job being the Metropolitan Police. Too hardline and you risk howls of protest from the left; too soft and you’re lambasted by the right. So Steerpike is pleased to bring his readers news of a policing decision that will please all inhabitants of the Westminster village, regardless of their political affiliation.
For six long, miserable years, Steve Bray – the Hiroo Onoda of the Remain campaign – has tormented those who work in and around Whitehall, blaring out music from his loudspeakers on Wednesday mornings before PMQs. But last week the artist known as ‘Stop Brexit man’ met his comeuppance after the Met sent some rozzers down to confiscate his sound set, much to Bray’s chagrin.
‘The Met Police just seized both amplifiers here at parliament’, howled Bray in a post on Twitter/X. He posted a series of videos of his speakers being removed, adding ‘This is Tory Britain today.
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