{"id":30184,"date":"2025-04-18T12:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30184\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:20:22","slug":"stop-brexit-man-speaks-out-after-being-cleared-of-flouting-music-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/30184\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Brexit\u2019 man speaks out after being cleared of flouting music ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent protester has spoken out after a judge cleared him of breaching a police order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/steve-bray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steve Bray;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steve Bray<\/a>, 56, is known for playing music around Westminster. He says he \u201cwon\u2019t stop\u201d his protests.<\/p>\n<p>He played altered versions of The Muppet Show theme and Darth Vader&#8217;s theme near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/parliament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parliament;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parliament<\/a> on March 2023 prior to then-Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/rishi-sunak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rishi Sunak;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rishi Sunak<\/a>&#8216;s arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Police told Mr Bray he was in an area where playing amplified music was prohibited under local by-laws.<\/p>\n<p>He was found not guilty of failing to comply with a direction given under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prominent protester has spoken out after a judge cleared him of breaching a police order. Steve Bray,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,12624,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,12625,18042,5112,12623,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-30184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-darth-vader","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-playing-music","17":"tag-police-order","18":"tag-rishi-sunak","19":"tag-steve-bray","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114358938739607435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}