Thousands Protest Against Lockdown in London
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 Speakersā Corner by Hyde Park at about midday, where anti-lockdown figurehead Piers Corbyn gave a speech saying he would ānever take a vaccineā 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.Ā
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 ānot acceptable and is arguably not lawfulā, 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 āreasonable excuseā for leaving home. It is widely accepted that transmission of coronavirus is far less likely outdoors.
At Saturdayās 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 Speakerās 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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The Gurnaid – what a rag!
Graun might have realised what we have known at LS for months; that much of their constituency is also ours.
See leftlockdownsceptics.com
thanks for the link
It’s all over now bozo blue, even the BBC repositioning itself in a pathetic attempt to avoid obloquy.
The Groaniad’s item on Vallance today said it all about their killing of journalism and emergence as primarily a propaganda tool for the Cabinet Office.
Being banned from their comment columns is a certification of intellectual grasp and integrity.
Well I donāt wish to boast, but although I havenāt yet been banned I have had a lot of my stuff deleted even when it had all the medical journal references attached.
It is sooooo much nicer on LDS.
It was tens of thousands, easily.
It was a lot bigger than was expected thats for sure … the numbers certainly surprised me in fact after a year of despair and feelings of helplessness after seeing that protest my faith in the the British public has been almost restored once again.
Just maybe today will prove to be a tipping point – the situation could now change rapidly as this will undoubtedly give others confidence to stand up to a government that has been far too arrogant for far too long now – time it was taken down a peg or two.
Well done to everyone who attended – you are all heroes.
With a capital H.
Filled me with such joy here in Melbourne, Australia, the home of many unquestioming zombie pro-lockdown pompom waving bootlickers, to see the amount of people marching in my ancestral homeland šā
You certainly have a way with words, Susie.
WELL SAID!!
That article is NOT worth reading in full. Corbyn is RIGHT that Covid mortality rate in uk is no worse than the flu. The institute of Actuaries have nailed this point.
The BBC article is disgraceful. Do they genuinely not know what ‘hundreds’ looks like? There was a goddam football stadium worth in that fantastic march today
I was at the Anti-Trump March in 2017 and the crowd was MASSIVE and so peaceful. Not one single arrest. Loads and loads of women. Was hugely underplayed and claimed to be a little over 100,000 initially until women started coming online and posting pictures of the dense crowds and correcting the estimations. It also felt amazing to know that all over the world, people were gathering to state their dissatisfaction at the fact of Trump in office. Watching the farcical US election of Biden has been somewhat sobering since, but I will never regret being there to stand in solidarity with those other women from the political diaspora, United to form one voice against a sexual predator in office.
I felt so proud to be part of British democracy that day, and I find it intensely sad that the beautiful thing that was our nation has slipped through our fingers.
I want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who attended the March and who keeps the flame of resistance to state overreach alive. You are my heroes.
Oh and if itās ok, Iām not going to read a Guardian piece. Iām hoping to see them and the Scott Trust in the dock one day over this fiasco, and the abuse of their position as a trusted news outlet, to peddle an agenda paid for by philanthrocapitalism. Thus depriving us of vital information with which to assess the first lockdown, and see it for the threat to our basic human rights that it has so swiftly become.
Handbag – It’s no longer the Scott Trust. The major shift took place when it became a limited company.
If you watch or read the BBC there was no march
It never happened, now please be quiet and do as you are told
Plus the rest of the MSM.
This is a bold statement to make:
This seems like grounds to sue for libel, they are calling him a liar. Seems like a good opportunity to take them to court and blow the lid off the Government’s false claims.
Unless I am missing something, I never read about these protests on LS until its too late to attend.. why aren’t they promoted? I am not on social media and have no interest in being so. Maybe somebody knows a particular site to keep an eye on. I don’t really know what a hashtag is…and don’t care to find out.
I keep an eye on:
https://saveourrights.uk/upcoming-events/
https://www.standupx.info/
https://www.stopnewnormal.net/
For anti-lockdown events.
Thanks for that, will check them out