The official site of the Prime Minister’s Office

More details from petition creator

The "Kettle" is best known for having been used in the May Day protests at Oxford Circus in 2001, after which it became the subject of a civil action, brought by one of those contained and only finally resolved by the law lords (in the police's favour) in January this year.

This intimidatory and inflammatory tactic used by the police can leave those participating in legal protest to be effectively imprisoned on the street for hours on end. The results of this and the implications upon our freedom to protest are plain to see.

How can such heavy handed policing of law abiding citizens be right in a so called democracy?

Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• emma Rogan
• James Fullard
• Paul Stallard
• claire worrall
• Tom Pengelly
• Christopher Alan Harrison
• anthony thomson
• Richard McKean
• Brendan Pickett
• karen faul
• Reuben Walsh
• julie shine
• Brian Collier
• Jennie Bailey
• Jeremy Williams
• Antoine LaRoche
• Dr Kaihsu Tai
• Koon Sing To
• Sarah du Plessis
• Daniel Rehahn
• Sheridan Clarke
• Marilyn Gayle
• Richard Stopford
• Victoria Blake
• Iain Hilton
• Imogen Michel
• anna laurini
• robbie blake
• Joseph Stacey
• Emma Turley
• nickola Hawkins
• Kelly Murray
• Paul Waring
• Ryan Northey
• Stephen Mortimer
• Melanie Wellsmith
• Steven Walker
• Katrina Blyth
• Tom E
• mary slattery
• Alex Pilcher
• Nancy Burgess
• Leanne Bird
• Maya Wolfe-Robinson
• Trevor Walshaw
• Stuart Pattullo
• Gairin Dancey
• Jessica Ferrow
• Jake Eyre
• Alan Ashton-Smith
• Nicolette King
• Katerina Brunclikova
• Robin Brown
• Laura Hagan
• Mark Tyers
• Thomas Warner
• Vanessa Ho
• Christina Alley
• Aimee Jenkins
• Frances Webber
• Matthew Harding
• Katharina Fuess
• Jordan Kirrane
• Stephen Rodgers
• patrick waylett
• Merinne Whitton
• Maciej A. Pieńkowski
• Sam Simonsen
• Anna Francis
• bernie hanley
• pearson
• Kate Earl
• Katie Miles
• Sue Wood
• jodie-marie price
• Nigel Green
• Paul McFadden
• Grace.Kelly
• DAVID SILLENCE
• Lesley Wertheimer
• Dr. Chris Grocott
• Farida Ashraf
• Sharon Longstaff
• shazia bashir
• Theresa
• Roqiyah Bibi
• Craig Hardy
• Daniel Rogers
• Terry Conway
• Miles Gilmour
• laura patton
• tony flynn
• Aadil
• Sarah Dudgeon
• David McAllister
• Isaac Malik
• Christos Georgalas
• Alan Gallery
• Joanne Burke
• Catriona Hobbs
• James Allen
• Jeannie Sherwood
• caroline phillips
• aaron richardson
• Hamish Drummond
• margarita sidirokastriti
• Claire Dilliway
• Dave Yates
• Maria Smith
• Syed Hadi Ali Zaidi
• Richard Glover
• jean Parker
• michelle darragh
• Leon Graham
• Tim Russell
• Jake Adam Pentland
• Arnaud Pitard
• Denny de la Haye
• Helen Lambert
• Simon Wilcox
• Richard Boulton
• Lucy Bridges
• kaoruko nakano
• Andy Hewett
• Dan Thompson
• Elizabeth Chapman
• Khadijeh Hadian
• Laura Morris
• David Webster
• Payam Torabi
• Ms. Benker
• Elizabeth Williams
• Joe Greenwood
• Kate Galbraith
• Victoria Redfern
• Elly Metcalfe
• Sarah Cope
• Caitlin Steele
• Emma Bartlett
• Sabia Kauser Akhtar
• Daniel Lee
• Lucy Kennedy
• Susan Tibbles
• Julien Pritchard
• Alixandrea Corvyn
• Deborah Evans
• Lisa Wellsted
• Kitty Cooke
• Roberta Lawson
• andrew squires
• Adrian R Williams
• rebecca hale
• Trudi Halpin
• Seamus Colligan
• michael hatton
• Liam Kelly
• Donald Fraser
• Saskia Walzel
• David Haste
• Keith A Mallinson
• Sarah Ashley Burns
• Aldabra Stoddart
• Rowena Murphy
• Susan Thomas
• Louise Wilder
• Beccy Spurr
• Graham Williams
• Sasha Garwood
• Keith Chambes
• Bianca Galluccio
• Mark Anderson
• Dick King
• S King
• Jeff
• James
• Elizabeth Brookes
• C Doran
• Peter McAskie
• James
• Keith J. Baker
• Barbara Porter
• Barry Philip Legg
• Chris Boyle
• E Ward
• Mark Dawes
• Bill Measure
• Ashley Gunstock
• Alyson Tyler
• Steve Walker
• Derek Oakley
• Freda Ka Ian Chio
• Lawrence Graham
• maahjabeen khan
• Del Smith
• Greg Augustyn
• Matthew Wood
• chiedza kurangwa
• Daniel Perrett
• Sharon Anne Abbott
• Andrew Canning
• DANIEL SELLERS
• PETER LAIRD
• Jeff Talbot
• Ian Landon
• Dr Joseph Healy (Green Party European Parliamentary Candidate for London)
• Sharon Kelsey
• Arun Gupta
• Judith Fessler
• John Moran
• damien gayle
• Gerry Barnett
• Michael Fitzgibbons
• Anthony Richardson
• Rob Fox
• Jon Chedgzoy
• Clare Parfree
• chris barnett
• rory fitzgerald
• Rebecca Lamont Jiggens
• Tim Brown
• Josh Hood
• Lindsay River
• Adam casey
• Helen Smith
• Marcus Trower
• Gary Lamont
• MARTIN MEARS
• john mackle
• Jess Lee
• dom h-n
• chris priseman
• Eric Drummond
• Russell Jones
• Robert Allwood
• Conor Hattwell-Leach
• Peter Bristow
• Andrew Dixon
• Anna Bell
• Richard Lewis
• Peter Maxwell
• M Harman
• Steve Smedley
• Alec Bruce
• Christopher Wong
• John R. Barberio
• Chris Sturtivant
• Christopher Cassells
• Joss Hands
• phil comerford
• Lis Weidt
• Sarah Edwards
• Imogen Cooper
• S Watkinson
• dean long
• Jonathan Tiley
• Paul Brooker
• Eric Watkins
• Peter Churchill
• Susanne Jarratt
• Emily da Costa
• Bill Nighitngale
• Ray Edwards
• Gareth Edwards
• Jon Reed
• Steven Pidcock
• Jimi Cullen
• Carole Mason
• b shippey
• Kate Martinson
• Arthur MIney
• Kay Haw
• rhys owen
• Sean Barlow
• Gordon Brown
• Judith Turner
• Angela Cashmore
• Samuel Cook
• Jo Richards
• Lee Whensley
• John White
• spirit
• Steve Houghton
• John De Fries
• Mark L
• kathy williams
• Valerie Leppard
• Emma Moland
• elizabeth sterry
• Lloyd Forse
• C.L.Newcombe
• alice patrick
• gareth snelling
• Michael Scott
• Phil Culmer
• Ian Kennedy
• E >Davis
• Sheila Elcome
• Jamie Andrews
• Colin Rimmer
• Jane Lawson
• Gayle O'Donovan
• Andrew Collingwood
• Mandy Walker
• Ella Speirs
• Daniel Collinson
• Bridget Jenkins
• Maggie Tee
• H Brooks
• Martin Gough
• Sean Kelly
• Adam Ditheridge
• daniel Barrett
• Callum MacKinnon
• Sam Walker
• Mandy Taylor
• Frankie Gillett
• KEVIN GILLESPIE
• Elek Urban
• S Bolt
• Sheila Chavarría
• Daniel Gibney
• Peter Gibbs
• Stephen Palfreyman
• Lucy Canney
• Dan Drummond
• Hannah Carpendale
• Alistair Dickins
• james counsell
• Benjamin McCarron
• Sami Wannell
• m Sinnott
• gareth blake
• Sylvie Pons
• David Mark Hobson
• John O'Mara
• gareth teasdale
• Ian Freshwater
• James Ross
• Andrew Rubens
• Sarah Lavender
• Richard Alonzo
• tom huxley
• Helena Pigott
• Peter Berry
• Simon Newell
• Greg Foxsmith
• Terence Bilverstone
• Rob Delany
• Laurence Alexander
• Sue Doughty
• Kat Meyrick
• Sean Handley
• Tom Bradley
• Will Derrick
• J Hart
• Phil Peter
• Robin Green
• L Roach
• neil gledhill
• Michael Skinner
• Kate Parkyn
• Lorraine Sams
• Heather McCartney
• Joshua Rowlinson
• Cassie Earl
• Emma Copson
• Clare Birkett
• richard oakley
• karen grant
• sarah jayne
• Rory Yeung
• Alexander Willmott
• John K Jarvis
• yasmin Fiederle
• Robert Owen
• Andrew Flather
• Hartley Fear
• Carol Gardiner
• Ginevra House
• james woodbury
• Lee Fido
• Ross Greer
• Wayne Bryan
• Richard Carling
• Stephen Petter
• antony seager
• Jasmine Caracci
• j Wallbank
• Amba Illingworth
• Chris Rampton
• Jake Fielder
• Andrew Hamm
• John Boxall
• Andy Gray
• Nick Trout
• Kevin Safford
• Richard Billington
• Diane Eyles
• Guy Glover
• Louise Fleming
• J Edmonds
• Martin J. Baldwin
• Steve Tickner
• Chris Sykes
• M Ratcliff
• Nate Barker
• guy rampersaud
• Paul Williams
• Michael John Salmon
• Tim Ottevanger
• Nigel Harris
• j hart
• Simon Johnson
• Robert Greenhill
• Robert Murray
• Ann Chapman
• Jessica Spencer
• Tim Jones
• Susanna Farley
• Nathan Hazlett
• Colin Watts
• C. Wilson
• Bibi Freeman
• Andrew Cotterill
• Luke Argent
• jeremy slawson
• Steven Illingworth
• Robert Nock
• Barnaby Booth
• Anthony Burrell
• Chris Holton
• ernie
• Michel Holt
• Harvie Brown
• Karen Heath
• Elizabeth Stuart
• Ricardo Miles
• Paul Davies
• Christopher Moore
• J Hart
• DAVID McGUIRE
• Chris Haynes
• Peter F Cuthbert
• Ruth Dowson
• Iram Awan
• Philippa Smith
• graham batchelor
• Caroline M Venier
• W. Clarke
• Chris Furniss
• Keeley Collington
• Luke Tebbs
• john griffiths
• Alec MacPherson
• Matthew Roberts
• Keith Mason
• Simon Watson
• G Y Shin
• Heather Dundas
• Campbell Campbell-Jack
• Andrew mills
• Kevin Cranston
• helen bolter
• Linda Bolter
• Martin Smith
• Nicola McKay
• Russell Levinson
• ian Eastham
• Austin Anderson
• Daniel McCafferty
• D W HAWKINS
• John K Jarvis
• Emma Thompson
• Emily Dingler-Meek
• Paul Dwyer
• Brian Varney
• Wendy Ridley
• I. Clark
• Sadie Rees Hales
• Alan Gore
• David Robilliard
• Andrew Garbett
• eric tenain
• Esmee Woolcomb
• andrew griffiths
• John Annan
• Alexander Cibulskis
• Lee Waterhouse
• Ian Hope
• Graham Bell
• Oron Joffe
• J McNeill
• Claire Levi
• Cyril Bonnett
• M Catchpole
• Colin Rimmer
• Robert Lea Grenham Cook
• james fenwick
• Joanna Lancaster
• Jack Williams

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

Show all signatories