{"id":69289,"date":"2021-06-16T07:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69289"},"modified":"2021-06-16T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:13:36","slug":"bbc-journalist-chased-confronted-by-anti-lockdown-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69289","title":{"rendered":"BBC Journalist Chased, Confronted by Anti-Lockdown Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>BBC Journalist Chased, Confronted<br \/>\nby Anti-Lockdown Protesters<\/strong><!--more-->\u201cTraitor!\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<p><strong>A video clip shows BBC political editor Nicholas Watt being chased down and confronted by anti-lockdown protesters outside Downing Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protests are once again growing after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced yet another delay to the lifting of the UK\u2019s lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/06\/14\/uk-already-planning-to-extend-lockdown-before-first-extension-even-announced\/\">highlighted<\/a>\u00a0yesterday, the public was already being prepared for an extension to the extension before the first extension was even announced.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators are once again gathering around Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament in London to express their fury.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Newsnight editor Nicholas Watt was caught in the crossfire of their ire as he desperately attempted to escape the crowd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-4\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1404744590649921541&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fbbc-journalist-chased-confronted-by-anti-lockdown-protesters%2F&amp;sessionId=396cb78736b653bde34e823e0e418c9c3f15c185&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1404744590649921541\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraitor! Traitor! once man screams in Watt\u2019s face as he desperately tries to find an exit strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScum!\u201d another man aggressively shouts in Watt\u2019s face as he tries to head towards police for protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraitor, you bastard!\u201d the crowd shouts as Watt finally is able to duck into a side gate that leads to 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame on you!\u201d chants the exuberant crowd before booing him further.<\/p>\n<p>As we previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/06\/10\/uk-government-adviser-says-mask-mandates-should-continue-forever\/\">highlighted<\/a>, given that government advisers are pushing for lockdown restrictions to remain in place \u201cforever,\u201d such anger and potential mass civil disobedience is only going to become more likely as summer progresses.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/06\/15\/bbc-journalist-chased-confronted-by-anti-lockdown-protesters\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/06\/15\/bbc-journalist-chased-confronted-by-anti-lockdown-protesters\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Journalist Chased, Confronted by Anti-Lockdown Protesters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}