Seems like a lot of effort to go to if you don't know what it's about..
London is full of people with nothing to do but go and march about in the cold for an unknown reason on a saturday afternoon.
Many of the people who take part in protest marches in London travel from other parts of the country. A large number of coaches have been chartered to bring protestors to London tomorrow from Liverpool, Greater Manchester, West and South Yorkshire and - no doubt - many other parts of the country.
Of course they do - that huge anti Iraq invasion rally way back had a million or so participants who came from all over: after all, London is the seat of government, whom you wish to be taking note, and certainly all the media will be there in droves.
According to the media (BBC News) ‘hundreds of thousands’ of protesters are due to arrive in the Capital. Whether you support the police or not, I think they have been well and truly thrown under the bus on this one. There will undoubtedly be ‘protesters’ who are there for one thing only, to cause trouble.
"Protesters" in the march itself, or those against the march (causing trouble)?
(Video shows what appears to be the far-right pushing, shoving and behaving in an intimidatory and rowdy manner and shouting "I'm England 'til I die")
Edit: and another:
Of course, there is no doubt that people on both 'sides' will misbehave today, but Braverman and Sunak have been behaving disgracefully and must be held responsible for their role in what will no doubt not end well.
As a technicality, who are they actually "hating"? But they all put this country into a terrible light, they are a disgrace. The absolute total opposite of the Pride and EU marches I have been on in London. One person asked me on the latest EU march "Is this a protest?".
I think the useless and ineffective Sunak will have been forced to sack her by Tuesday almost regardless of what happens or doesn't happens today. The level of support for her among Tory MPs and cabinet ministers, apart from the mercurial Gove with his own agenda as always and the headbangers, is obviously nil. Oh, and while he's about it, why not ditch loathsome Anderson too?
Words spoken by politicians and the media have a huge impact. If such a fuss hadn’t been made about this Palestine march, then less people would have been made aware of it and feel the need to ‘protect’ the Centograph.
Or the White Swan Pub, Westminster.
Apparently Yaxley-Lennon (to use his real name) decided to do a runner in a taxi; he was so desperate to get away he didn't mind the livery
Declaring a state of emergency and cancelling the elections is an option I suppose. Alternatively they could try to get the police to trump up some charges against all their credible opponents. Unfortunately it seems like the police have lost interest in what they say, and there would be a lot of charges to trump up since you could probably put the case for electing a wet lettuce in preference to them.
Do you really think the Tories are in line with the majority of the general public on this issue?
A snag with a super majority of say 60% is that we could have had a 59% Leave vote with such a high turnout that over 50% of the electorate had voted Leave but we would have had to Remain in the EU due to the super majority not being achieved.
RainbowCab to the Rescue! This has just made my day!Apparently Yaxley-Lennon (to use his real name) decided to do a runner in a taxi; he was so desperate to get away he didn't mind the livery
Given the huge turnout of the peace march, I wonder if Sunak, Braverman and their odious ilk will slowly start to realise they were wrong to back Israel and wrong to reject a ceasefire?
If Suella Braverman becomes leader they will lose the General Election with her as leader. Conversely, if Theresa May is re-elected leader, she could repeat her 2017 feat of leading them to a hung Parliament. However, this time it would represent progress.
Hamas is a product of Israel due to decades of progressively corralling the Palestinians into ever smaller areas they fermented the situation and then Mr security Netanyahu was asleep on the job. If Sunak or any leader round the world had taken a proportionate approach that reflected the history the marchers may not have come out. That said the marchers behaved exemplary and despite the best efforts of Sue Ellen she didnt get the outcome she desired and the Met have shone through not forgetting they also had two premier league matches to police as well.
