13 people have been arrested at a protest in London in which thousands marched against the Government’s lockdown. The Guardian has the story.
Thousands marched under a heavy police presence through central London to protest against lockdown on Saturday, with at least 13 arrested.
Demonstrators gathered at Speakers’ Corner by Hyde Park at about midday, where anti-lockdown figurehead Piers Corbyn gave a speech saying he would “never take a vaccine” and falsely claiming that the scale of deaths from Covid was not dissimilar to those from flu each year.
As police surrounded him and detained a handful [sic] people as they ordered demonstrators to disperse, the crowd then marched out of the park and through London from Marble Arch.
The march came as 62 MPs and peers wrote to the home secretary on Friday saying that allowing the police to criminalise people for protesting was “not acceptable and is arguably not lawful”, in a letter coordinated by Liberty and Big Brother Watch.
They said the right to protest was enshrined in human rights law, amid growing scrutiny of police tactics after officers forcibly dispersed demonstrators at a vigil for Sarah Everard last week.
The specific exemption to coronavirus regulations in England allowing the right to protest was removed in November, but some legal experts have said it remains a “reasonable excuse” for leaving home. It is widely accepted that transmission of coronavirus is far less likely outdoors.
At Saturday’s demonstration, police appeared to apprehend relatively small numbers of people throughout the afternoon as a helicopter hovered above. But at about 4pm officers began stepping in to separate crowds and continued to urge people to disperse, detaining some. The Metropolitan police said there were 13 confirmed arrests by around that time. Scenes back at Speaker’s Corner at 5pm were increasingly fractious.
Other protests were expected to take place elsewhere in the UK.
The BBC notes that “Scotland Yard said the number of people attending Saturday’s demonstrations exceeded expectations”.
Meanwhile, in Switzerland thousands (or, as the Guardian put it, “several“!) formed a “silent protest” against lockdown in the small northern town of Liestal.
The Guardian’s report is worth reading in full.
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Which sort of women is she talking about?. Just looking for clarification.
You mean, do they have wombs?
Interesting. The partner of a friend of mine had Covid, as did my friend. She subsequently suffered from a number of complaints, including loss of appetite, insomnia, weight loss and depression, these are the ones he told me about. And was taking several medications, several of which had to be changed because she had a reaction of some kind. And she was seen by several different NHS doctors. The diagnosis was long covid. She was put on long term sick leave and was on the point of losing her job, a well paid mid level managerial role with a decent salary. Eventually she saw a different doctor, who happened to be female, who diagnosed menopause and stopped all the medications, putting her on HRT. Within a very short time things got back to normal.
‘And she was seen by several different NHS doctors.’
Blimey! Most people can’t get to see one.
Look at these graphs/numbers then remember these reports represent only 1% of the reality ( so the experts say ). I assume the large drop in 2022, when compared to 2021, is due to less and less people getting jabbed with each injection that comes on the market, plus a data lag would account for some decrease I presume.
Evidence of democide and mass murder right there;
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
Do they know it’s genocide at all?
Oh stop it! Don’t encourage this eternal CoVid nonsense.
It’s Post Viral Syndrome – a well known sequela following many common infections including coronavirus (Colds) and Influenza. Nobody suffers from Long Cold or Long Influenza.
It gained notoriety years back as Yuppy ‘Flu.
And how many of these women had been ‘vaccinated’… maybe they have Long mRNA.
Indeed, Long Jab Injury and Long Lockdown are far worse than Long Covid. The latter of which is generally within the envelope of Long Flu or Long Cold.
Score one for Occam’s Razor!
I have a new name” To infinity and beyond ” Covid. It’s a hoax and a gift to lazy people.
How many of these women are vaccinated? The vaccines may have done for their ovaries and ushered in menopause.
I wonder what is going to be more profitable for Pharma? Long covid treatments or HRT treatments? HRT is already a cash cow as you can potentially put half the population on it for quite a while – media has been very keen to promote menopause and all those poor women undergoing it needing to be medicated for years.