Posted on 03/30/2019 6:32:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A picture posted on social media showed a man wrapped in the St George's cross -- the national flag of England -- on a roof of the station, with police vehicles nearby.
Services were suspended early Saturday, said Eurostar in a tweet.
The company recommended that passengers not travel and offered free exchanges or cancellations.
Later in the morning services had resumed, but Eurostar warned of "further disruption."
Demonstrators blocked streets around the Houses of Parliament as lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal for a third time, on the day that the UK was originally meant to leave the European Union.
Metropolitan Police confirmed five arrests were made during the protests. The force tweeted that by 9 p.m. local time, two people had been arrested for assault, one for being drunk and disorderly, one for assaulting a police officer, and one who was wanted for an offense in another part of the country.
Marchers carried placards, bearing slogans including "No deal is better than a bad deal," "Every nation has the right to self-determination" and "Leave means Leave."
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Looks like the English are finally standing up about something.
For there is none of you so mean and base, that hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you straining like greyhounds in the slips. Straining upon the start. The game's afoot. Follow your spirit and upon this charge. Cry, God for Harry, England and St George.
This was just before Henry V sent his troops against the ramparts of a French city Harfleur. It would not be the first time when old England seemed lost. Someone wrote that Milton the English poet was needed once again. For they said the country had rotted and was like a fen (waste land).Who knows what the future will be? Does not look too good right now.
Milton, England hath need of thee, she is but a fen.....
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