Member

The reason I say that is that, as we have heard, and as I want to emphasise, deciding to adopt anonymity on a protest—in society, in fact—is not necessarily a sign that you are a wrong ‘un. We live in a free society —you can decide not to reveal your identity when you go, legally, on a demonstration; it might just be that you do not want to be seen there, for any number of reasons. The Minister has been on many demonstrations and he will know that there will be police officers pointing at people, identifying them as troublemakers and so on, even if they are doing nothing wrong. It is intimidating. That is the way it is used.