Saturday.
London, England.
We Will Be Free tweetz:
A couple of standout photos from the London Freedom protest. Have faith – there are way more of us than you think!
Meanwhile…
Brian C writes;
Think RTÉ is bad. Well, they are but the BBC are up there with them. They managed to devote zero coverage to one of the biggest marches to ever take place in London…
Pics: @saveourrightsuk
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According to SOQ on Sunday- this was the “biggest march in the history of London”.
Of course it was.
I’ve heard this mush floating about on social media yesterday too, I have seen no photo to even remotely come close to backing it up.
No I said it was ONE of the biggest marches in the history of London.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2021/06/26/sundays-papers-89/#comment-2325530
That really is pathetic juvenile stuff.
You called me a “beeatch” yesterday SOQ although you used the correct spelling. I assume this was deleted by mods although I did not check. Life is too short. Lol.
And you now crow about pathetic juvenile stuff?!
On your bike mate.
Also – I am immune to that nonsense.
But I do dish it out when provoked. :-p
Dear God- why can’t people just have reasoned debate without this childish goading? I called you that because you were doing the exact same thing as now.
Play the ball not the man- otherwise you have already lost the argument.
SOQ, +100%
You’re dealing with a narcissist and gaslighter there SOQ. Look up the traits. They’re all there, much as he’d like to disguise them. Just list them out every so often. He doesn’t like that.
‘Play the ball not the man’
Good advice. Unless you’re accusing others of being paid to disagree with you or of working for the government in some capacity and thereby suspect. Dear God, etc.
@GiggidyPox I see your own narcissistic rage is firing again. I have never tolerated your abuse of me or others on here – particularly the set you took against Vanessa Foran (Frilly Keane). I know your type: you are nothing but a low born auld man with so many chips on his shoulders, he can hardly stand. Shame on you at your age.
I will continue calling your behaviour out Giggz, like it or not, so I’ll let you get back to your Dutch Gold and ranting and raving.
Chortle!
Work away there Boxy. Parade the traits.
Not referring to yourself in the 3rd person? Must be a penance eh?
Google ‘traits of a narcissist’ – You tick all of the boxes. Likewise, ‘gaslighting’
Toddle along there like a good fellow. You’re well sussed here, after the type of attacks you make on posters and their families.
“On your bike mate.”
Lol. Oh dear – and what a low born auld lad you are. Your slurs won’t work with me Giggz.
I’ve seen you post the worst things about migrants (afraid they’ll steal a few night shifts from you at Rosslare or wherever the hell has you staking around here in the wee hours) – I can link to what Frilly said of your post about migrants – drives you potty – not to mention your own classic narcissistic trait of being unable to tolerate any dissent from your skewed world view. And spare me your sob story of having a difficult 2021 as I have seen you do when caught out. Boxy (opps) will continue calling our your auld dysfunction, disgruntlement and sheer nastiness.
Do drink up your tin of beer and less of your nonsense.
Great to see you’re all over the place Boxy. You just can’t contain it. I’m sure your alter ego, Unreal, will be along shortly. Can’t have one without the other as they say.
And you try to disguise your third person narcissism with a supposedly faux ‘(oops)’
Toddle. You’re number’s up.
Chortle. You can’t accuse me of not calling it is like it is Giggz!
Nah, you’ve bullied enough people on here. I’ll still drive you potty.
Drink up auld lad. Just hope you are not on the night shift. Oops!
:-p
London Bitches be like https://www.tiktok.com/@soulparadise222/video/6978562455983197446
Toddle along boxy. you’re all over the place. Narcissism at its finest. You’ve outed yourself so much here, maybe you should change name again.
Unreal Bitnboxy. Youre not having a great day or week or month. Your disgusting posts have caught up with you.
Unreal
I think you’ll find it was a small fraction of the participants in various anti-Brexit and anti-Iraq War marches.
Wasn’t this reported as a massive protest of Extinction Rebellion, Kill the Bill and anti-lockdown protesters? I recall seeing this reported across multiple outlets over the weekend (admittedly, not the Beeb).
Edit: just searched ‘London protests’ on Google there. The first two results are from BBC news reporting on the protests and the subsequent arrests. You can also see the guardian, metro and ITV news reports on this topic too.
Shsssh Millie. You are spoiling the msm conspiracy narrative.
And it still won’t get them on a flight to Ibiza! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/28/britons-will-need-negative-covid-test-or-both-jabs-to-travel-to-balearics
https://news.sky.com/story/from-climate-to-palestine-thousands-of-protesters-descended-on-london-with-one-common-goal-12342611
The usual propaganda. Sky would have you believe that the protest against continued lockdown measures and Covid vaccine coercion was just a marginal aspect of the protest on the day and that those protesting on that protest only arrived “as the hours wore on, indulged in “angry shouting at police” but left “just in time for the Wales match” (football hooligans, nod-nod wink-wink)
“And so amid all the other issues competing to be heard, a new battleground is emerging – the right to protest – to disrupt and cause unease and alarm.” (the old divide and rule tactic)
Luckily there’s still various live-streamed videos up on Youtube ,documenting the thousands of protestors walking through the streets of central London on the day. Those videos are a much better way to gauge what the motivations of the protestors were rather than some corporate media articles with a few carefully chosen photos.
Here’s one point where the person streaming stands in the middle of the street facing thousands of people as they pass. Notice all the banners and what the people are chanting
https://youtu.be/ZU00FopXuZY?t=7352
I’ve watched a few of those on fast forward and I don’t know were the media get the idea that it wasn’t an anti-lockdown march
it looks a little like this year’s gay pride in Paris, the street party was epic looking at friends pics
Well if you know London you would appreciate the scale of it. There was huge crowds on Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and then another big gathering in Hyde Park- which is a half hour walk away.
And it appears that the dance sound systems were really well organised as there is videos of least four separate ones on trailers, plus mobile amps and rappers- it looked great.
MAGA and tinfoil hats… the type who believed a slogan on a bus 5 years ago.
That’s not true. You only think this because you’ve been propagandised to think this.
MAGA hat in the second picture
Tinfoil hat at the march https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1408773687248044038
1 person wearing a MAGA hat doesn’t represent the majority. All are welcome to march for truth and freedom and there’s definitely an even mix from all walks of life at these protests.
She’s wearing a tinfoil had to take the piss out of gullible people like you who’ve been programmed to parrot the tinfoil hat line.
Sure, sure. That’s it entirely.
Why are lockdown septics so desperate to present the cohort as “an even mix from all walks of life” and not the bunch of headers and malcontents lead by the absolute dregs?
London Bitches be like https://www.tiktok.com/@francescajodie/video/6978850389143653638
@Cui Bono
If you were to ask yourself which Irish online media outlets might be flagged by the Irish authorities as potential sources of trouble in the Covid era, I think it safe to assume that Broadsheet would be one of those sites as it’s one of the few Irish outlets with a degree of popularity that consistently posts pieces which challenge official narratives on Covid.
We know that the British Army has it’s own dedicated online team called the 77 Brigade which is involved “in countering Covid misinformation” among the British public forums. In other words, an army of internet trolls seeking to attack any discussions that run counter to official narratives regardless of their validity.
In fact there’s a coordinated response by governments around the world dedicated to “Combatting COVID-19 disinformation on online platforms” as set out by an OECD policy document in July 2020.
Looking back at the government response to anti-lockdown protest in Dublin last February, you can see the kind of paranoid surveillance environment we’ve now descended to:
https://www.thejournal.ie/misinformation-online-protest-5368341-Feb2021/
‘Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said that gatherings like yesterday’s are “now organised moreso online” and that the gardaí are “doing a huge amount of work to try and preempt these types of events”.
“My own part is working with the gardaí to make sure that they have the legislation or that they have the means to infiltrate or to essentially identify this type of activity that’s happening online ” ‘
So if some of the commenters here are likely part of the government’s ‘online presence’ team, then who are the most likely candidates?
I know who my money is on.
I can see the attraction for multiple separate organisers to ‘share’ a protest and all be their on the same date.
That way, each of them can claim that all the turnout was for them.
A lot of grasping at straws here.
The usual divert and distract tactics occur when there’s nothing left to add.
The pictures and video don’t lie.
There were indeed a lot of people in London that day.
London swarming with people on a sunny Saturday in June?
Inconcievable!
And all walking the same way. There must have been a sale on.
You’ve gone, in this thread, from Tin Foil Hats, to foreign travel, to it’s the day and month and weather that’s in it.
Grasp at one maybe? Or just admit that it was a well attended march by normal people looking to get their life back.
Magas and tinfoilers are hardly normal.
You know something, Daisy?
I think you’re a bit of a Tin Foil Hat wearer yourself. Conspiracy theory that the attendees at this march were other than lockdown protesters. If your view you relate them all to:
Magas
Just out for a fine day (all marching the same direction mind you)
Something about a Bus 5 years ago
Anti-vaxx
Something about them not travelling to Ibiza at the moment
Tin Foil Hat
That Pigeon Hole of yours must be extra large.
Calm down dear. I don’t need the tinfoil hat, I’ve been vaccinated so the 6G waves keep me safe from the antis ranting on the streets in london.
Poor Giggsy annoyed that the Brit malcontents are having as little effect on policy as their Irish counterparts… who seem to have disappeared into the ether once pubs started serving outside.
Doesn’t bother me one way or another too much Daisy what goes on in Britain.
Just pointing out your own penchant for conspiracy theories and your tendency to pigeon-hole large swathes of people to bolster your own narrow-minded agenda – for yourself.
6G?
6G. Better than 5G (and probably coming to a network near you) and offers immunity from lockdown septics.
lockdown septics?
Doesn’t matter who was there for what ideology really though does it?
They were all outside together in huge crowds and not scared of Covid – and all having an absolute ball.
On that – they are exactly the same.
Delightful ;)
It appears that one of the main interest groups was actually the music industry- and who can blame them, because they have been absolutely hammered by this whole thing. That’s the reason why there was so much emphasis on music and especially dance music.
The title ‘freedom to dance protest’ is all over social media now.
Here is just one example.
https://www.tiktok.com/@mihigh19/video/6978579055641693446
Indeed.
https://twitter.com/SaHreports/status/1409498070346305537
You selective pick one rocker in an attempt to shoehorn in something completely unrelated? Londoners are very pro Europe- 60% voted to remain- and that percentage goes way up with the twentysomethings.
They were already hit pretty hard by Brexit before covid, and the Tories have nothing but contempt for them and artists in general. I have a lot of sympathy for them.
That’s Brexit.
SOQ is talking anti-lockdown.
“Indeed”…indeed :)
Oh, I know, my point being that for the poor ol’ musicians (and citizens of all sorts of other professions) it’s cumulative. I feel the dynamic of lockdown protests in the UK is fairly nuanced compared to here. Personally I have no problem believing that this consisted, at least in part, of a fairly massive lockdown protest, but it’s the equvialent of the anti-water charges protests that came after years of social and economic mismanagement and creeping neoliberalism in Ireland, and thus got channeled away relatively harmlessly. Not to mention it’s a rather uneasy and unpleasant coalition of interests and ideologies that will either coalesce into something very nasty or fall apart, and given how Brexit turned out, my money’s on fall apart, bitterly.
And the Tories really really hate the arts.
If you’re protesting something, ideology is usually fairly pertinent to what you want done or what you want stopped. I can’t see it bieng particuarly helpful to anyone but the people in power to blend different, possibly profoundly opposed, protests into one big bland generic bunch of people having a ball. If you want to ignore ideology, then you’re essentially rendering the act of protesting, the right to which is oh so important, a completely toothless exercise in traffic disruption.
Nigel, literally nobody thinks that, probably not even you. Hilarious, got any more material?
It does not surprise me that you do not think things.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57628292
No coverage atall
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57623110
None what so ever
Its quite interesting how some people are bending over backwards to find some other that what it was to dismiss it with. It was an anti lockdown protest, and it was absolutely huge- end of.
https://www.tiktok.com/@281083sle/video/6978763059812764934
Oh well if the Queen hath declared it then so it must be.
The right to protest or march is hugely important to any democracy. So its good to see people exercise their rights. I don’t see a problem with it. Lockdowns have gone on far too long, we should be more innovative with methods to live with an ever mutating virus. As more people get vaccinated, the numbers should decrease steadily over time. At this point it is essential that people in the worst affected industries be allowed to go back to work again. Work helps our mental health and self esteem.
Lockdowns have gone on too long, but what are the underlying reasons for that, and will ending lockdown solve them or exacerbate them? If I were in the UK there are many, many aspects of the government’s handling of the pandemic (they seem to be squandering their amazing vaccine rollout – unforgivable), and lots of things about the government in general, I would protest vociferously, but it would be on the basis that the pandemic is real, and it’s mishandling is what is extending the lockdown and putting lives and people’s health at risk, not some crappy fakedemic conspiracy, and if I did I’d be feeling pretty ambivalent about my protest being mixed in with the protests of those who think the pandemic is fake.
I’ve no idea what share of the crowds were pandemic deniers, or just people who want life to go back to normal. There’s always bound to be a few nutty types in any march, but it doesn’t mean that the majority of people who just want to be heard should not march. Let’s say venting frustration is probably a healthy enough thing to do on a summers day, it might make people feel better or cope with their stress. I feel really bad for people who have lost their jobs or savings through no fault of their own. They have a right to be angry, plus most countries have leaders who mismanaged the whole thing and taken bad information from the WHO/ China and other authorities who really screwed up bad!
Do you not think it’s justifiable to protest the incorrect counting of covid deaths?
When people say the pandemic is fake it’s not because they think covid isn’t real, it’s because most countries have literally counted 1000s of people as having died from covid when they didn’t. They died of other causes.
I know 2 perfect examples of this in Ireland. The numbers of covid deaths are far lower than presented in the media.
Protest whatever you like. But the chances are they’re actually undercounting.