"Our Sovereign Lord the Queen chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the Queen!"
After reading aloud this warning from the Riot Act to a mob either engaged in rioting or threatening to do so, the civil authority could lawfully disperse the mob by force.
The Riot Act came into force on 1 August 1715 and remained on the statute books until 1973 when it was abolished, like so much else of proven value to England... the old counties... British resistance to government by foreign powers... by the faux-Conservative government of the notorious liar, internationalist, socialist and traitor, Edward Heath, of infamous memory.
As the enormity of Heath's confidence trick dawned on the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher challenged and defeated Heath in the party leadership contest, restoring the party's reputation, honouring its Conservative principles and reversing the catastrophically destructive measures introduced during the Heath-Wilson years.
It took Gordon Brown a few years in control of British domestic economics and social policy (ceded to him by Blair so that Mister Tony could pursue his preferred and more lucrative career in show business, prancing on the international stage and competing in the World Emoting Championships) to undo Lady Thatcher's good work and so bring us to today's pass.
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