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… Read more »
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.