Above the law? We're talking about a government who illegally prorogued parliament, who have put lives in Afghanistan in danger, who supported Blair in his murderous Iraq campaign, I mean, don't get me started! These guys have a valid issue, they are sticking their heads above the parapet, they are non-violent, and, sure, they're causing inconvenience... Well so were those striking dockers, firemen, miners, schoolworkers, Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, the guys who tore down that bloody racist statue...We live in a country where you are laughingly ignored unless you stick your neck out and make yourself bloody unpopular with the unthinking, stinking, indignant Tory masses. I hope you don't think that the best way to get attention is to write polite letters to the Guardian...

Steve (long-time neck sticker-outerer, multiply-threatened leftie, good mate of the best action man I ever met, the murdered Blair Peach...)

And you can always make laws up as you go along. "It's illegal to put your vulnerable human flesh and blood on a piece of tarmac in order to inconvenience gas-guzzling, polluting, environment-wrecking internal combustion-driven behemoths..." Wow!