Unlike the last anti-lockdown protest, Saturday’s Unite for Freedom rally has actually received some media coverage. This has, of course, focussed on anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists. Protesters held signs reading: “My body, my choice”, “we do not consent” and “you have no power over us”. The Met, concerned also about a protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill taking place at the same time, “urged people to comply with the restrictions that apply to large gatherings”.
The MailOnline has more (although it smeared the protestors as anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in its headline).
[Those gathered] protested [in part] against the idea of vaccine passports.It is thought many of the crowd travelled from outside of the capital to take part in the gathering.
Several people set off smoke bombs and one launched a firework.
One man, who did not give his name, told the PA news agency he had come to the capital “because I want to be free and I want you to be free and the Government are lying to us”.
Another said she had attended because the press “are lying to us”.
By lunchtime, the crowd had started to disperse and head to Whitehall, with some heading to Trafalgar Square.
Pictures showed a London bus covered in anti-vaccination stickers.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Guardian actually ran a fairly balanced report about the occupation of Westfield by the protestors. The march, which began in Parliament Square, snaked all the way to Shepherd’s Bush and beyond to Acton.
Hundreds of anti-vaccine passport protesters invaded the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush on Saturday evening at the culmination of a mass march that drew many thousands and snaked miles through central and west London.
There were tussles with police who tried to block access through one entrance to the shopping centre at about 6pm, before protesters quickly realised that another door just yards away was unguarded.
Hundreds made it into the shopping centre where they stayed for about half an hour chanting “no more lockdowns” and “take your freedom back” before they were cleared by police with batons drawn, although without scenes of violence.
Worth reading in full.
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What a dismal account.
Hear hear. And what media lies. I was there and I know.
Cheering here in Canada. The wall of censorship is crumbling! The truth will prevail.
Look at all them far-right wing, neo-Nazi extremists Boris!!!!!!!!
We are not in the middle of a pandemic. It was over some time ago and is only being sustained for political purposes.
There never was a pandemic.
No! Your right. It was an attack by China on the Western World. They deliberately infected is with a man made virus, no leak as we are told but deliberate seeding with their own population.
Unfortunately a “Vietnam variant” has been found – just in the nick of time before panic broke out in corridors of power that their emergency use authorisation for all the jabbing would no longer hold good with the dwindling numbers of tests and hospitalisations. Apparently it is VERY dangerous, a hybrid of the indian and UK variants, which spreads quickly. Panic everyone – man the jabbing centres.
Hi Milo,
Ah yes Vietnam! With it’s total number of 7085 “cases ” of Covid-19, 98 deaths out of a total population of 98M, and deaths per million index of 0.5. (Worldometers May 30/21) Yes, you read that right–0.5! We must be afraid. Very afraid!
The Met’s Cressida Dickhead’s ‘guidance’ is redolent of the fascist intent that a previous generation fought against.
Taking any heed is an insult to those that died – just like Johnson drunkenly staggering around at the Cenotaph.
Fucking murdering dike cunt
That seems a fair assessment
thousands? if that is all then I really dont believe humanity deserves to save itself. Or maybe it is for that purpose that civilisation must destroy itself so it can rise again after this catastrophe with proper values. Happened all throoughout history… will happen again… maybe this is it.
This is a very defeatist attitude ,and plays straight into the fascists hands, do not give in.
Yes, never give in! I’d rather die on feet than live on my knees! We have everything to live and hope for.
Hundreds of thousands. I was there it was huge. We are here.
Obviously the media will downplay the actual numbers so as to present them as a fringe minority. It must have been more than a few thousand, as the cowardly bullyboy police didn’t try to disperse the crowd, where as they were happy to do so at the beginning of the year when the numbers were actually in the low thousands. The take home message is that if enough people stand together then the state can’t stop us.
Remember…none of them can count.
I’m actually feeling a bit deflated after that, great as it was at the time. If the media blackout is as comprehensive as it appears to be, what’s the point?
I accidentally caught a bit of radio 4 news just now, nothing about London obviously, but a report on covid protests in fucking Brazil – not against restrictions apparently, but at the lack of them. It’s a dead loss.
Look at this way. No one ever got ill, there was never any new “wave” that could be blamed on the protesters, because in the MSM’s eyes, the protests DIDN’T happent!
That, and it hasn’t happened at any protests, or basically outside at any point in 14 months.
We need a new form of protest. Let’s all start blocking A&E with asymptomatic broken legs that we insist need looking into… or something
I’ve said this before but bring eggs. Next March is June 21st the fake freedom day
Odd how all the hacker types seem to have disappeared!
I feel very much the some way but if we give up now we will be finished. At least this march got a few mentions which means somebody is beginning notice.
With censorship at it’s current level this kind of event is one of the few ways we have left of communicating with the rest of the population never mind our beloved “leadership”. It may be disheartening but they can’t ignore us forever. Sooner or later they will be forced to start providing more accurate coverage if for no other reason for fear of a competitor beating them to it. Remember how every mainstream media outlet debunked the lab leak theory out of hand and are all now making excuses for it now being a real possibility. BJ can only bribe the BBC for so long.
I am finally getting the impression that there are one or two of the uninitiated beginning to wake up to events surrounding them, and to recognise one or two of the dictatorial instructions they have been forced to follow for just what they are.
Every voice is important. Keep up the good work.
And being with like-minded people en masse makes you realise you are far from being alone. And each time the crowds are increasing in number. These protests WILL make a difference as more and more attend. Those blood-guilty scumbags know we are incapable of being brainwashed by their consistent ridiculous evil lies and that we DO NOT CONSENT
The big problem is the C4 “anti-vaxx conspiracy” documentary scheduled for broadcast on Tuesday evening – they are trying to equate our concerns with the covid jab with the work of Andrew Wakefield [MMR]. A hideous skew of what we are concerned about but won’t help our cause.
Don’t give up. Being there made a massive difference. Now tell people in your community about it in a good way.
No protests will make it easier for the authorities – it is a media blackout because these protests are not good for their PLAN
Endless discussion on what key Dominic Cummings farts in
ITV news is an even more depressing coverage…
London protest: Hundreds join anti-Covid vaccine demonstration in Parliament Square | ITV News
Hundreds?! Well I suppose that’s correct in the sense that there were hundreds of hundreds?! And actually I saw very little ‘anti vax’ stuff – far more around vaccine passports and consent. What a shower of shit the press is at the moment.
There was plenty of vax stuff and so there should be.
I was there and it was huge! Peaceful and people from everywhere! A wonderful peaceful way to stand up
What does it achieve though, other than a good day out? Beginning to think it would be better to organise large social events for those of a similar mindset along the lines of late 80’s raves – somewhat outside the law. (Pills and acid house optional)
I think that’s a good idea.
Also, I would like to meet as such like minded people socially, for example for walks, cycling, golf or so, rather than continuing to spend my time doing this with the jabbed morons who want to discriminate against me and think nothing of it.
yes good ideas im starting to meet fellow sceptics which is great , wish had met them a year ago . no marches in u s that i know of or i d go
A long march to Florida
Stand in The Park, Every Sunday, 10 -11ish check out the website for a park near you, meet like minded, new friendships kindled, ideas and info exchanged, as well as psychological and spiritual support…
i hope soon to convince my new friends to go with me. i w as the only one when tried a month or 2 ago so am sorry to s ay i gave up
too disheartening so will try again now thank you!
have finally recently met a few others so will try again the stand in park to meet even more
Yes, I think we’ll have to form our own small but select society. I have jabbed friends who are not judgemental but it is still somehow a bit of a barrier – really because these proposed limitations on the freedoms of the unjabbed (I’ve never taken a flu vaccine but never felt different from most friends who take one regularly), the aim of which is to divide. Anyway, I feel more in common with people who have seen through the nonsense and realise what is really going on.
Yes, great idea. Where are you?
You need to find your own local stand in the park group on sunday mornings….they have a fb and telegram group letting you know where they are in your area. Ive met some great people through these gatherings.
You’re thinking like a defeatist. This is nothing to do with pills and acid.
I was there too.
What it achieves is that it encourages more people to question what is going on. They will see the large crowds and question their own beliefs. They will start to wonder why the media isnt reporting it properly. It will take time, but bit by bit, and person by person, the size of opposition will grow and grow. At some point the opposition will be too large for the evil to stand any further.
Yep, all the bystanders were filming the march. Then they’ll try and find out what it’s about…and nothing in the MSM! Unless their heads are stuck up their arses, they would surely want to know, wouldn’t they?
Excellent point! How much censorship of the march(es) on social media?
No single protest ever achieves anything. All that can be done is to keep reminding the state that growing numbers of people oppose what they are doing, and show other lockdown sceptics/anti-vaxxers that they aren’t alone and give them courage to speak out. Change always takes a long time, don’t give up because you don’t get quick results.
~Agreed but my concern is that if it takes too much time, too much damage will have been done, in that too many people will have been jabbed, a lot of them twice, we could even be in “third booster shot” territory, and once the damage has been done it cannot be undone.
Well, there _was_ something like a rave going on at the top of Charing X Road. We were stuck there by the sheer numbers, so we danced and sang along.
As for achievement: many people I talked to afterwards had realised, from experience of many of these protests, that “missionary” work on the edges is crucial.
The bulk of the protest draws attention. Once that attention is drawn, a protestor comes up to you, the bystander, and has a polite, calm conversation, asking you what you think and debating things.
A lot of people were doing this important work – getting knockbacks, of course, but also finding a lot of people who, though they might never actually protest, are deeply uneasy about all this.
Because that changed what exactly? I’d join a new Jarrow Match though. It would last for days and disrupt half the country
Not only that – if it lasts for days and causes disruption media cannot ignore it. Look what MLK did on the march to Selma.
I was there too and yes, perhaps a disappointing misleading headline, but the buzz was good and you cannot deny the numbers who attended. The media might choose to put their head in the sand but ‘they’ know. They cannot totally deny our message.
And just to add. For me, it’s great to know that by attending, you find you are not the only one.
Agreed. I met up with my brother and we were amazed at how many people were there. I talked to some nurses about lack of treatments, I talked to foreigners who were perplexed about what was going on here and in their own country, and I talked to some nuns! Besides loads of others. There was a huge cross-section of people. It helped my brother a lot as he’s a care-worker and constantly being pressured to have the vaxx. (Which he won’t!) but seeing so many people who feel like him was a tonic, and helped his resolve. Brilliant day, and the media can kiss my arse!
Your brother should join the Workers Of England Union – they will assist him https://www.workersofengland.co.uk
Thanks I’ll let him know
good for your brother ! and for you both for going and talking to bystanders thats the way to go !
Yes, and why do they lie about us? Because they’re afraid of us. Afraid of the truth.
Just keep at it folks. Just keep going through the pain threshhold. I was at it last night pushing copies of The Light into the letter boxes of the businesses in my town that are still standing. It’s shocking to see how many have gone out of business and if something doesn’t change and there is another lockdown these businesses will not survive.
good for you Tillysmum
We were there too, but arrived late so we walked from the back forwards.
My impression was that whilst it was diverse and in good spirits, there were fewer people than in April, maybe 10.000?
I also think people were younger and a bit more fringy than in April.
My most deep and lasting impression was that the general public doesn’t give a fig anymore.
It was just a nuisance for most. Shopping was brisk and normal in Mayfair. Some young, masked, female Covidians even showed the finger to us.
The public (erroneously if course) just thinks that the vaccines are vaccines, that they are effective, that they are safe, that taking them protects not just yourself but others (the opposite of masks, but they just adopted both narratives both ways, as the single masked joggers demonstrated it again to us) and that life will be back to normal once everyone had their shot.
They don’t want to fathom yet that they could be wrong about that and that they will get multiple shots p.a. henceforth etc. .
Maybe things will change then.
They are also just fine with the looming discrimination if the unvaxxed and its apartheid.
Their historical knowledge and concern about that is zero.
Every discrimination we are now ashamed of and for which people were later prosecuted was normalized, legal and enthusiastically approved of and performed by the general public at its time.
Absolutely nothing has changed in that regard.
Nor that they will go to hell for it.
There was less there but we are closer to “opening”. Let’s see what happens if they roll out the passes and keep the locks on past the 21st.
From the stream I watched it appeared less, looking at some of the posts here though I’m not sure it was massively so.
I used the word fringe when discussing it with a fellow marcher and we both agreed it was a lot younger crowd than the original Trafalgar Square rallies last year.
When I arrived I deliberately walked the length of the crowd to gauge the numbers and from Whitehall to Parliament Square I estimated that there were around 50K. As someone used to football size crowds I think 50K maybe a few more was pretty accurate. However I also think there were alot of late comers and stragglers and was even told there were other marchers.
So I think by the end there were a good few there and much more than 10K easily. At least 5 or 6 times that but by the end who could tell. A great day nonetheless.
We were watching the stragglers passing a big Oxford St store, after the main body had gone by, and it took a good half hour.
Your impression is way off. Try 600 000.
Just keep going.
The media blackout of the protest today was shameful – the idea that the government narrative must never be challenged and any dissent must be censored and stamped out is a warning sign that Britain is sliding perilously close to totalitarianism.
Media blackouts of public protests was the kind of oppressive measure one would hear about is some far-flung dictatorship like China or Iran … not in a liberal democracy like Britain.
Once again don’t believe what the msm says – this protest was huge.
It was, and I don’t think anyone here would doubt it. But no one else knows about it, or probably even cares. I think a large proportion of the population is irreversibly brainwashed. It’s easier to fool people than persuade them they’ve been fooled etc. What can be done about that? A march with no media coverage won’t help.
I would guess you weren’t there.
This negative attitude will certainly hinder any chance of making an impression. With friends like AdamB we don’t need enemies.
Bit harsh, Annie! I was indeed there, I even took my children, and it’s the third time I’ve been now. As I’ve said, it was a great event once again, but I’m not sure I will have the enthusiasm to go a fourth time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not giving up on my beliefs on the whole situation!
The march went through residential and shopping areas. There were people waving from windows and balconies. If marches keep doing this in London and other big cities, more and more people will start wondering why something so big is being ignored by the BBC. The BBC can turn its cameras the other way, but it can’t switch off people’s eyes and ears.
Seeing the sisters emerge from the Tyburn Convent to watch us pass by was one of the most poignant moments for me.
https://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/martyrs-shrine
Agreed, it was fantastic, they were clapping, smiling and encouraging, and when we went past they were receiving a lot of attention.
No,they do that for themselves, sadly. I spoke to several people here on the Welsh borders yesterday who were not even aware of the march, and I’m sure that’s very common. But my son was there filming all day (good boy), and he said it was massive.
we all need to complain to the BBC and offcom about the absence of coverage in the same way that a lot of people complained about too much coverage of the DofE’s death.
It helped me Adam. For once our views were the predominant ones, and we were in the majority! Everyone who was there got to know that there were literally thousands just like them, and they were not alone in the battle. It’s given me a lot of confidence that people everywhere are resisting.
It WILL help. Thousands of people watching the march, who have wondered about ‘things’ (!), but have kept quiet, would have been amazed at the size of it, and will have been encouraged to question, speak out, even join us. And each of those will tell others….
Most people are brainwashed that’s true. Nothing worthwhile has ever been easy so keep at it.
I expected MSM to ignore it, but LDS’s account is pathetic. This site has fallen, I’m afraid.
“Thousands” is technically correct : but it was huge (worth looking at the various streaming videos).
According to MSM Pravda this never happened today ….
https://twitter.com/alanvibe/status/1398711967800512516
I noticed that all traffic webcams along the route were offline today too
This clip neither claiming the protest to be nearer a million by 2pm today …
https://twitter.com/hkkostadinov/status/1398730168844308487
Julia is absolutely spot on with this tweet …
yes, and without restriction or having to test or carry a vaxx pass
Some great messages today …
Heroes all.
For me one of the best posters!
Yes can’t help agreeing this is a pathetic account of a demo that this site should be supporting 100%. To describe it as thousands is not helpful. It is a huge demo, especially when one considers the huge daily drip feed propaganda from the MSM in support of lockdownism, coercive mass vaccination and Digital Compliance ID.
If Toby and others actually came out in support of the demo it would be even larger.
Sounds like there were slightly more people there than have been injured by the “vaccines”
“One man let off a firework”!!?? That was literally the organiser’s signal to start the march SMH.
And the smokers weren’t bombs and they weren’t dangerous. I’ve never seen a more peaceable, friendlier crowd of people in my life.
So on BBC home page we do hear about this protest “Hundreds join Belarus solidarity protest”. It is good that they prioritise rights protests.
Yes well they are protesting against a totalitarian regime. Here it is completely different. Oh wait . . .
Many now saying there was over a million protestors there today …
https://twitter.com/emsayle/status/1398625620872019971
I was there all day until we past Shepherd’s Bush green. The March carried on towards Ravenscourt Park.. but somehow an attack on Westfield occurred. This is what gets in the news. Also these are apparently also kill the Bill protesters that have nothing to do with us because they always wear masks.
I don’t care really. The press can’t stop lying. I was there. I know we were peaceful and massive, probably 600 thousand.
but they keep lying and gaslighting.
and this will only make us grow.
Good attitude. Keep talking.
Oh fuck, forgotten the script
Are they supposed to shoot the dog before or after they get married?
David Kurten was there today … says it was a bigger rally than the last.
https://twitter.com/davidkurten/status/1398618352311013380
Those here saying this wasn’t that big we’re not there.
https://youtu.be/fGpoZ7ObvNE
Oh yes they were. They just don’t wan’t anyone else to know about it.
Lol Brilliant …
Yes, one of my favourites, lots of great ones. Points to the lady with the mask themed costume, great effort and looked wonderful.
Love it. I’ve saved it for later use somewhere, who knows where.
The BBC will tell you this is 1-200 anti-vaxxers ….
https://twitter.com/Adam_Stratford_/status/1398615543284961283
Naturally no mention of this on the BBC news at 10. Instead they told us about a game of football, a black lives matter scumbag who has been shot then another game of football.
Tried to post a comment to give my opinion of the coverage but the “Post Comment” button ceased to glow well before I had the chance to even attempt to post it. (No there was no bad language).
I was there today and to hear hundreds were there is a scandal. People said a million – I’m not sure about that, but a road wide procession of people walking for two hours is easy hundreds of thousands. The fact it got no coverage is a disgrace.
While we we were already half way down Oxford Street, people were telling us they were still coming from Parliament Square, there were thousands of us and we know it!!
Just a question for all of you: has anyone complained to Ofcom or directly to the BBC that refusing to broadcast the protests is a breach of the charter? I think it clearly breaches point 5 and especially point 6 (4). I’d be interested in what replies were forthcomimg if any. I do wonder if there is a legal case to be answered but assume someone has explored this option already.
I complained after the last demo and got a standardised, anodyne, lying reply. Still worth doing, though.
Was that the BBC or Ofcom? I’m not surprised of course.
BBC. Look for their Complaints link.
Same here. Wishy washy insubstantial responses though I will keep bothering them as they are despicable and not doing their job
why doesn’t someone very capable BTL here compose a letter which we can all download and send – customising as we please – to Ofcom and BBC.
At last! The Guardian: ‘At its height there appeared to be hundreds of thousands of people taking part’.
But I am suspicious that the Guardian has highlighted this. It is so far up Bill Gates’ backside. Has it an ulterior motive, perhaps? Sowing seeds for a continued lockdown? Claiming that these ‘hundreds of thousands’ are responsible for the spread of the latest so-called variant. Thereby creating more division between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
I do hope not but why suddenly mention the protest? Don’t trust the report at all.
(See Rod McLaughlin’s post later. Very suspect tbh. Is this the route MSM will take? We will have to wait and see…)
Interesting theory…obviously hope that’s not the case…
I might just have read too many Whodunnit books
Quite right Monica. I think they call it ‘poisoning the well’. Hundreds of thousands from all over the country – this is so unusual for the Guardian that there has to be an ulterior motive. This protest can be blamed for any so-called surge anywhere in the UK in the next 19 to 20 days
This IS worth reading in full, as the Guardian does say ‘hundreds of thousands’. And it IS the most ‘balanced’ report I’ve ever read of the demos. It’s not great, sure!! But not as bad as the usual ****. The ‘hundreds’ refers to those entering Westfield. I was there as well. I marched the 12 miles to Acton but didn’t want to go into the shopping centre. For me, that was the only bit that didn’t feel right.
No, it didn’t did it. Almost as if the police let a hundred or so protesters inside the shopping centre in the hope that they’d start trashing the place resulting in photo ops, arrests, etc.
I’m not suggesting there’s any comparison with India, and one should be sceptical of anything in the Guardian but this is of interest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/30/kumbh-mela-how-a-superspreader-festival-seeded-covid-across-india
Permalink: https://archive.is/4WmOc
“Kumbh Mela: how a superspreader festival seeded Covid across India”
It’s tempting to call it ‘natural selection’ – people dumb enough to join huge crowds, thinking religion will protect them, die. Unfortunately, they also spread it to everyone else.
Oh I know, I know. ‘The people dumb enough to join’…the BLM protests last year, the ‘people dumb enough to join’…the crowds in Cornwall last year, ‘the people dumb enough to join’ the crowds on the British beaches last year, and of course ‘the people dumb enough to join’ the hundreds of thousands in London and other cities on 24th April’. And there were reported ‘spikes of infection’ after all those, weren’t there? Oh, hang on, there weren’t.
I was dumb enough to join yesterday’s march and I’m proud of it. So are the thousands upon thousands of others.
Just checking you noted that I wasn’t actually agreeing with Rod. (I was there too.)
There is no evidence to suggest that a single person has caught Covid and died as a result of a protest. Even if your above statement were correct, it is nothing compared to what ultimately happens to people who are dumb enough to surrender all their freedom and control of their lives to the state.
The opposite of dumb, both literally and metaphorically. Healthy people don’t need religion to protect them, they have immune systems. Challenging those systems builds immunity. It also builds herd immunity, thereby protecting everyone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57294438
This is outrageous. The NHS are demanding our freedoms are not returned to us on 21st June, not because of Covid but because of the backlog of none Covid patients. It is high time this disgrace of an organisation was put out to pasture and the saving in taxpayer spending passed directly to taxpayers in the form of tax reductions and rebates. People could then use this money to buy very good private healthcare.
It is outrageous that our basic freedoms are held to ransom by the efficiency and capacity of one of our public services. Do we lock down when the roads are busy or the trains full or there’s a power outage? No. The problem is the NHS not its users. It needs sorting out.
Pretty weak reporting of the reporting by others which is acknowledged to be weak. I was there. Who knows exactly how many people were there – it was alot. AND from all walks of life. And from all parts of the country. AND peaceful. Perhaps we might take heart from media silence – if these protests were no threat to the critical interests of the status quo – then they could be safely reported ….. but since – just maybe – they are a threat to those interests – best pretend they didn’t happen and just wait till even the brave are exhausted. This may turn out to be the most significant challenge to rights and freedoms of people since WWII. It IS worth the effort – but requires courage – and patience.
Your analysis is spot on.
Well said. It’s almost as if LS doesn’t want to be seen to be too closely associated with the marches. Despite the fact that the marches are the natural result of the lockdown scepticism – which it supposedly espouses – being ignored.
Hopefully there will be an article ATL today to redress the balance.
I wonder if those in the media understand the damage they are causing to democracy by ignoring and/or misrepresenting hundreds of thousands of people marching for a cause.
How many peaceful means do ordinary people have for voicing serious concerns? Very few.
Hundreds of thousands of people (if you believe the Guardian’s estimate) gathering to protest is a massive, massive deal. Not reporting it properly and fairly leads to loss of faith in democracy, loss of faith in media and loss of faith in peaceful protest.
The effect may not be felt immediately, but it will be felt.
The media are nothing more than the government’s mouthpiece. Democracy and a free press are already dead in this country I am afraid.
The media is paid off by the huge Government advertising spending spree (your taxes) – they even pay full price. Oh and by Institutions like The Gates Foundation that made ‘donations’ with strings attached to all including the BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian ….
Armstrong Economics in the US had better coverage – including an interview with a nun !
I would like to think this site will improve it’s coverage of the demo in the next day or two.
The site will be visited by other sceptics and potential sceptics who need to know they are not alone and that something can be done to change things.
In the absence of any credible political base or opposition to this lunacy what else can we do?
But I would like to see TY pushing the demo, the numbers there and the msm lack of reporting.
Again,well done to all that were there.
The problem lies not with those on this site but with those who consider skepticism over lockdown akin to manslaughter. We have become supine and befuddled- we accept the role of a Professor of mathematics Tim Gowers determining medical practice: -never been in my clinics or operating theatre where I have felt the lack of a mathematician,epidemiologist or politician with an arts degree: but then again I thought we lived in a democratic libertarian country!
So LS you report what the police said, what the Daily Mail said, what the Guardian said. Underwhelming.
I saw the Shopping Mall thing live in You tube. Since when was it illegal for people to walk into a shopping centre. Of course it that’s all the could come up with it was 100% peaceful.
BLM would have smashed up the racist shopping mall in a largely peaceful protest
I was on the march, from Charing Cross to Acton, but decided not to enter the shopping centre. That really was playing into the media’s arms – soft target. Bad decision.
The problem is that the Guardian article was, surprisingly, quite good! But the best bit (‘hundreds of thousands of people’ was behind ‘Read in full’. I suspect quite a few here didn’t do that, and I can quite understand why. But it’s a shame LS couldn’t have used the ‘hundreds of thousands of people’ from the Guardian article in its headline. After all, it would be quoting the Guardian…
We were there. We even spoke to Piers Corbyn.
HOWEVER A WEBSITE called “LOCKDOWN SCEPTICs” SHOULD BE PUBLICISING THIS ALL WEEK BEFORE THE EVENT.
But all we got was Cummings.
They are minimising the numbers in MSM in order to keep the vaccine pressure on the public. If they had to acknowledge that such large numbers were resisting, then others who are wavering might resist too. Big numbers of resisters will also make it harder to operate vaccine passports as part of daily life and people will realise what a dead end this is.
Need to keep going! It gets bigger every time. We will get there. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Yesterday was a great day!
That’s the spirit. Nothing worthwhile is easy!
The revolution will not be televised!!!!
I thought Toby and James Delingpole were planning to get to the march. If they did they might have a video to share. Give him a chance, he’s a busy man and doing us all a massive favour.
Saw them in Parliament Square just before we set off, plus Fox and Kurten.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-march-at-saturdays-anti-lockdown-protest/
‘and beyond to Acton’ TY in the dog house again for bringing his mates home for the after party?
There is at least _some_ media coverage of the protest, at last.
I can’t give a full account of it: I don’t know how anyone without access to a helicopter or drone could. At 1pm you could hardly move in Parliament Square. I have no idea whether I was near the front or the back of the march.
It took us 3 hours to go to Trafalgar Square, up Charing Cross Road to Centre Point, and along Oxford St to Marble Arch. Marble Arch is where I, like many others, just flopped in the park as we were exhausted. (The mast of my sign had snapped as well, so I had to carry it in an awkward way from Tottenham Court Road onwards).
The reason it took so long was the sheer, tightly packed number of us.
One thing I can draw from it (from the hundreds of possible conclusions): it’s literally a _demonstration_ of the vast distance between reality and the po-faced, namby-pamby, risk-hysterical dull expanse of grey which claims to be “UK society”. I was stuck in a tightly-packed crowd at the top of Charing X road for what was probably 20-30 minutes, not moving. But I didn’t mind: I’d deliberately positioned myself near a couple of lads who took turns to carry a gigantic loudspeaker on their backs. They were pumping out tunes and beats, and everyone was dancing and singing.
On Oxford Street buses were covered with White Rose stickers. Protesters were carefully removing the stickers from the drivers’ windscreens – otherwise how could they drive away safely after we’d gone?
The contrast between us and some of the shoppers on Oxford St was eye-opening. Shops turned into security zones, with big burly security men at the door. Not only because of us: also to control the obedient, suitably spaced queues of masked shoppers waiting for the privilege of entering H&M.
As for “many came a long distance”. The early evening train I took back to Newcastle had dozens of us on it: unmasked, tired but happy, sociable.
I think the Government and the media want us to believe that the latter, grey, controlled vision is the only possible reality. We demonstrated that that vision is a demented, lifeless fantasy. As I said to other exhausted people in Hyde Park: THIS is society.
To everyone of you that attended the
March I congratulate you
I knew the March was on and trawled sites to find out how it went
By the way I’m not in the UK I am in Australia so don’t for one second think the world is not aware of what is going on over there
You have millions of like minded information seeking allies
“No person shall participate in a gathering of more than 30 people outdoors”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
FYI behavoural sorcorers, censorship/and media blackouts will have the opposite effect..
https://t.me/c/1220368920/17442
I am not sure of how to post links, if this don’t work can someone explain how to link from telegram.
AS far as I can see, the BBC didn’t cover this massive event at all! Surely they must be in breach of their charter for not doing so?
The Telegraph announcing early this morning, vaccine passports inside the UK will not happen is, in my view, a result of Boris being shown the helicopter video footage and police estimates for the protest march in London.
You can just see the fat b stard eating his bacon and eggs and saying “Bloody Hell Cass, that’s a lot of people!, I better call Patel.”
“Hey Patel, What are they bloody protesting about ?”
“All sorts of crackpots but mostly the vaccine passports”
”Bloody hell, if that’s all it is, let’s back off of that one then, I’d better call Gates first though.”
”Ah Gates has gone underground sir, he’s been exposed as a possible kiddy fiddler.”
You say the Guardian gave a fairly balanced report but the first sentence talks about “hundreds invading the Westfield shopping centre”. They didn’t ‘invade’ it, its open to the f***ing public that the protest consisted of. But then I suppose “hundreds of people walked into…..” wouldn’t have had the same winding-up effect on the average neoliberal, lockdown-worshipping Guardian reader.