{"id":395461,"date":"2019-02-07T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bollocks-to-brexit-protester-leaps-in-front-of-theresa-mays-motorcade-in-brussels-video-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:41:16","slug":"bollocks-to-brexit-protester-leaps-in-front-of-theresa-mays-motorcade-in-brussels-video-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bollocks-to-brexit-protester-leaps-in-front-of-theresa-mays-motorcade-in-brussels-video-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bollocks to Brexit\u2019 protester leaps in front of Theresa May\u2019s motorcade in Brussels (VIDEO) \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c5c0f4bdda4c89e548b459f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Less than two hours after landing in Brussels, Theresa May\u2019s convoy was set upon by an anti-Brexit protester who rushed the motorcade as it pulled up outside the headquarters of the European Commission. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Demonstrator Mark Johnston was one of several participants in the \u201cBollocks to Brexit\u201d protest which greeted the embattled British prime minister as she arrived for yet more negotiations with the EU regarding Britain\u2019s impending divorce from the union.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAre you willing to get run over for Brexit?\u201d<\/em> a reporter asked Johnston after a short scuffle with security.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019d rather the prime minister not crash out,\u201d<\/em> Johnston wryly responds, in reference to the placard he brandished at May\u2019s passing vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>May is hoping to secure concessions from the EU regarding the Irish backstop issue which has repeatedly scuppered negotiations, and threatened her leadership on several occasions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/450872-verhofstadt-hell-brexit-eu-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Brexiteers would \u2018DIVIDE HELL\u2019, says EU Parliament\u2019s Brexit negotiator, gets roasted<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxs\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xs\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/m\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/l\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/article\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxl\/5c5c0250dda4c8a1548b4577.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s parliament is expected to vote, once again, on whatever the latest draft deal may be on February 14.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are three or four of them, actually. You can still see them just over here gathering with yellow hats on which say \u2018something to Brexit\u2019, the B word. I\u2019ll let you guess what that is,\u201d<\/em> Sky News Europe correspondent Mark Stone said, describing the scene.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know if it actually was her car to try and stop it and pretty quickly some plain clothes Belgian security officers moved him out of the way and the car then went in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/450878-anti-brexit-protester-may-car\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two hours after landing in Brussels, Theresa May\u2019s convoy was set upon by an anti-Brexit protester who rushed the motorcade as it pulled up outside the headquarters of the European Commission. Demonstrator Mark Johnston was one of several participants in the \u201cBollocks to Brexit\u201d protest which greeted the embattled British prime minister as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}