A huge crowd has descended on central London today to make their feelings known to the Government about the endless restrictions we have been living under since March last year. They are also calling for Matt Hancock to resign following revelations that he kissed an aide despite regulations banning intimate contact being in force at the time. MailOnline has the story.
Tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protestors marched in central London today calling for freedom and an end to COVID-19 lockdown regulations.
Maskless anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protesters were seen marching along Oxford Street in central London on Saturday as they called for the end to all Covid regulations after Freedom Day was delayed from June 21st.
As well as demanding the end to Covid lockdown rules, protestors also brandished placards that demanded police “arrest Matt Hancock” after he was caught breaching Covid safety regulations by kissing his married aide.
The crowds of protestors marched through Oxford Street, Regent Street, Hyde Park and Northumberland Avenue as they held placards reading “freedom is not for trade”, “no to Covid vaccine” and “no to Covid passport”.
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Read MailOnline‘s report in full here.
Stop Press: BBC News has actually covered the protest, although it describes the number of protestors as “thousands” and is at pains to point out that the numbers aren’t just made up by anti-lockdown protestors: “Whether it was austerity or Palestine, lockdown or the NHS, campaigners of all ages and backgrounds wanted to make their voices heard today.”
Stop Press 2: The Evening Standard covered the protest in a surprisingly balanced way. The Guardian, on the other hand, did not.
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Heroes, every one of them! Wish that I could have been there myself!
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Great
I finally made it today, but I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude to those smaller numbers who braved police abuses (among other things) to keep doing this through the Winter.
Well done to those who attended.
This dreadful Govt of killers are on the run, I hope.
The tide is slowly turning….the lion no longer sleeps….
Illegal under the antiterrorism legislation – are you an agent provocateur?
Just on the way home from this, great turnout and atmosphere. Lovely to be among normal people. I didn’t realise it was as big as that aerial shot shows, fantastic!
I was there & have estimated the numbers ways.
1. I twice counted the numbers walking past a fixed point in a minute. About 600. The march took an hour to go by so 600 X 60 = 36,000 people.
2. The width of Oxford st is about 30. The march was about 2000m long. So that’s 60,000m2, Density of crowd was less than 1 person per m 2 so fewer than 60,000.
I would encourage more people to come along, they’re great fun with every kind of people.
Finally, I would say we outnumbered the XR crowd by about 100 to 1.
The crowd that began in Hyde Park was probably 250 thousand. This was smaller than the march in May unfortunately.
We were stopped at Oxford Circus by the pigs and again at Piccadilly Circus. At both places the demo was split up.
My section was led down Haymarket then Northumberland avenue as cops blocked Whitehall. Then we we skirted Parliament square and dissipated outside number 10.
Our rump of a group was whittled down to maybe 10,000.
The police successfully cut the march up. I’m afraid the organisers failed to keep everyone together and the tactic of not announcing in advance what the route was worked against us. What could have been a massive march was completely ruined by successful police tactics.
I’m afraid your estimate of 250,000 is way off. At 2mph (walking pace in a a crowd) you would need over 4,000 / minute to pass a fixed point for an hour to reach that number.
At 2mph you cover 50m a minute. So you would need 4,000 people every 50m. Think of your school assembly hall X by 10, were there really that many people every 50m?
But I agree about routes. We came to a grinding halt just off Picadilly circus where a flat bed truck bedecked with revellers caused a choke point which meant only a trickle could get by which meant the march lost its volume & power before Embankment. They did us no favours.
Having been brought up in Wembley Park close to and been to the stadium a lot of times, and all the major London football stadiums,Twickenham etc. I have some idea of the size of crowds , what just a 100,000 looks like. This being my fifth march with the numbers increasing all the time as anyone who goes is so enraptured they want to come again, and talked to a lot of first timers, the numbers were well over a million. Agree that with the massive turnout it was difficult/impossible to marshall. It was advertised as going to 5 places of interest. It took ages for us to get out of Hyde Park and we started from the north end, at least 20 mins, so we missed the first stop/diversion at Blairs home, Connaught Sq. which I learned about later. Agree progress was slow down Lower Regent St. with lots of cars stranded not just the flat bed truck, but I think going down Northumberland Avenue not Whitehall was always the plan, because of other marches.We were still a great mass on the Embankment, being then towards the back, my wife needed a toilet stop,so do not think the police… Read more »
And at 5pm everyone went back home for tea.
How many police have ‘British’ grandparents these days? Perhaps there’s nothing better they like than to show the ‘British’ their place.
yeah!
It’d be good to get an accurate count.
Yes it would. I was trying to gauge it from ground level but that’s a totally pointless endeavour.
It is very difficult.
With the technology available today, I doubt it’s difficult at all
And you can see who’s there by tracking the mobile phones. Unless you left yours at home. You did, didn’t you?
I may be negative, but apart from a Day Out in London I’m not sure what these marches/protests are actually achieving, the private test companies are still operating at the airports
(here, have a look at Collinson at Heathrow:
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.collinsongroup.com?stars=1)
, the NHS test centres and jab stalls are still operating, the government are still coming for your kids, school classes are still sent home if one tests ‘positive’, the threat of ‘no jab no job’ looms large, those given the lucrative contracts have got off Scot free.
Why don’t the marches go round to the places that are actually causing this truly evil nightmare instead of just being hemmed in by tall buildings in the streets of London?
cant you stand there and count how many walk past you per 10 seconds, see how long it takes for everyone to pass and multiply up?
Good point, maybe I could buy one of those clicker things!
As someone that does large festivals and music events for a living I’m used to seeing what certain crowd sizes are number wise. Personally I’d say it was over 100,000 people.
The rave truck kind of scuppered it a bit going towards No. 10. It broke the crowd up a fair chunk and spread it out as people couldn’t get past.
That said, it was a great day with people from all walks of life. Didn’t see the XR lot but the BBC made most of their article about them to take away the real reason people were there.
The live stream I’ve seen looks promising.
In the not so distant past I used to attend football matches with a regular 40K gate. This was much, much, larger.
Footy crowds are fairly packed in though, this was quite spread out. I would be surprised if it was more than 50,000, but it’s hard to get a good idea on the ground.
See my post above. I agree, about 30,000 to 40,000.
For it to be 300,000 you would have needed the march to take 8 hours to process down Oxford Street. Look at some photos, count how many people there are across the width of the road. At 2mph they move 50m per minute.
What we need are more people.
Compare it to the anti-Brexit marches that claimed million+ attendance…
The estimates were no more accurate then. Wishing something doesn’t make it happen.
If you didn’t go it’s your fault there weren’t even more people there.
On the plus side I saw Piers Corbyn twice, David Icke on Bond St, is it David Kurten & Calvin Robinson on an open top bus, all largely not being made a fuss if which I think adds to the egalitarianism of these events.
The trains from Birmingham didn’t run. It was very sweet on our train back that a fellow protester took pity on a couple ( masked) & arranged to drive them home from Banbury where all services terminated. One can only wonder if a masked couple would have offered an unmasked person such selfless help.
Deutsche Bahn who run many of the trains in the UK must be raking it in! Protesting Macht Frei!
Makes me fume when they say ‘Maskless’. Its outside ffs.
To the zombie morons, it simply means ‘bad’.
Maskless. Jobless. Unwashed. Ad hominem because they can’t attack the message.
A valid case against lockdowns does exist but the media doesn’t want to hear alternative perspectives and allow for OPEN debate on this topic. In beginning I supported lockdowns because I was scared the NHS would not cope with a high rise of Covid19 cases. The NHS struggles to deal with winter flu on a normal season there was absolutely no way the NHS would cope with a tsunami of Covid19 cases.
I became a lockdown sceptic because I realised we can’t continue to live like this . What if the virus never goes away or new strains keep getting found and eventually becomes resistant to the vaccine .
Life is not a movie in which the hero comes to save us all
I use “free-faced”. It’s more positive; free-thinking, free-spirited, freedom. As opposed to worthless, baseless, homeless, lifeless.
Think they just sopped outside Chris Whittys house and asked him to come out, for some reason he didn’t
Yes, took a while for me to figure out who we were door stopping lol.
No doubt completely ignored by the mainstream media until some misleading photo can be constructed to demonstrate what a bunch of violent thugs we all are.
https://www.minds.com/steveghostwords/
For sure. Those poor little lambs of police could have been seriously hurt by tennis balls. I notice in the Mail article the usual disparaging and incorrect remarks about “deniers” and such. However, of greater interest than media lying is the fact that an awful lot of people who comment on the article are totally brainwashed, or perhaps “intellectually challenged”, complete with “Covidiot” remarks and stuff about the “great unwashed”. They might perhaps like to nail themselves into their boltholes and leave the rest of us to get on with it, which might be to their advantage.
Let’s not forget the Mail owns the giveaway Metro. This front page served to convince my octogenarian mother the protests are full of violent thugs.
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1233793333111443456
Nothing is surprising, once it’s realised that the government has effectively bought or bribed the “media”; not for 30 pieces of silver, but hundreds of millions of taxpayer pounds. The media receive the blood money in return for lying reporting and filling their space or airtime with propaganda aka public information advertising. Stooges everywhere, nowadays.
It would certainly be to ours.
Nail themselves? As someone who lost my job due to this charade I’d do the nailing for them. Contactless payment, PPE, the works.
Zero mention on the Telegraph site.
No they have for once!
Just left it. The turnout was massive, and seems like it’s actually getting some coverage this time. I think Hancock might have done us a favour..
The first good thing that wanker has ever done, if that’s the case.
They could no longer deny these marches were taking place so they did prior raids and arrests to try and create a narrative of violence
Apparently these top criminals were in possession bamboo with intent to build a structure…feck I did that in our back garden when I was seven
Of course no one will be charged and they will be released tomorrow
People did not fall for the provocations but instead threw tennis balls at Parliament and Downing Street
They were Extinction Rebellion activists. No sympathy to be wasted there.
I was there…hard to gauge numbers, but it feels like it was 200,000 – 500,000 or so. More than ‘tens of thousands’, but probably not 1+ million either. It was fun, inspiring, motivating, and hopefully useful. We will never give up.
Where were the daily preview articles ATL publicising this?
BBC news – “hundreds of anti-vax, 5G refuseniks and David Icke supporters attended a small march in London today. Meanwhile, Tony Bliar prompts the government yet again to issue vaccine passports in order to get the country moving again, confirming that he has been approached by the Prime Minister to take over from Matt Handoncock”.
Agh! Don’t! NO! No, no, no!
Stop it! Stop it right now!!!!
Congratulations to you all, I hope there won’t be any need for another one, but if there id, I’ll be there.
Ditto. Yesterday was my first ever political protest (at age 55). If I don’t have my freedoms back, it won’t be my last.
why was my comment removed?
Reform covered the protest live including footage from a helicopter. They had JHB from Talk Radio there as well.
You can watch it all here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1uGcWCrFTcoUzAaW7JRRMA/videos
I’m still not too sure about reform. At times they are a bit too pro “vax” for my liking. At times they still seem to be pedalling the notion that the “vaccination” programme is the way out of the restrictions, but I strongly disagree about that. However I do think their comprehensive coverage and criticism of the MSM for not reporting the protest is helpful. Again I think that having the likes of JHB involved is positive as it will widen the publicity, but equally she is another I have to disagree with over her enthusiasm for the gene therapy.
Yes she has had the jabs but she is unequivocal in her support for the right to choose and against any form of vax passport discrimination. I think that coming from a vaxxed perspective gives her a strong case to attack government for not opening up as promised. They can’t dismiss her as an anti-vax conspiracy theorist.
I can only assume they’re not very bright because I have explained it at length to them both.
I cannot understand their enthusiasm — I have wondered if JHB is under pressure by her bosses to push it – for why else would an intelligent woman who has spoken with you and who MUST by now have read the Yellow Card and the VAERS reports on the sheer number of DEATHS AND LIFE CHANGING INJURIES – the same goes for Laurence Fox — I think they are both in some ways doing their very best but on this the most VITAL point they are letting themselves down.
The BBC is truly desperate if they are apparently trying to co-opt the meaning of the protest with their usual infiltrated protest groups.
Just got back from the march. What a lovely atmosphere. Lots of people from all backgrounds, children having a day out, tambourines, balloons, flags, smoke, someone throwing a beach ball, a live band trundling through the crowd, a lady in a wheelchair with a megaphone, stickers everywhere – most amusingly, on the side of a police van. I bet there will be a serious concerted de-stickering operation by crews of shift workers early on Sunday morning.
Oh dear! The London variant will go rampant and strangle so called NHS( considering the numbers of world ‘visitors’ treated) perhaps WHS would be more appropriate ( taliban victims etc).
How could you all be so Careless?
BBC News channel : 10 seconds at most.
10 seconds more than they’ve ever managed before!
True.
why does LSD just copy the Mail headline. From the photos it is easy to see that as a minimum and being conservative and on the safe side there are several hundreds of thousands there. This being my fifth march with the numbers increasing all the time as anyone who goes is so enraptured they want to come again, and talked to a lot of first timers, the numbers are well over a million maybe even two. Having been brought up in Wembley Park near to and been to the stadium often I know what just 100,000 looks like
I agree – Disappointing of LdS — I too am used to crowds in hundreds of thousands at big sporting events – this was easily in the hundreds of thousands ——
Aah so THAT’s why Hancock resigned today. Do we have a fireplace salesman available to take the spot, I wonder. Mediocrity is a prerequisite.
I think we got him – a Paki money shuffler!
After the last London protests people I talked to who live quite near these demonstrations and who could have quite easily attended said that they didn’t join the protest last time because they believed that Boris would keep his word and end restrictions on June 21st but if he broke that promise they would definitely attend the next protests – well Boris broke his promise to end restrcitions on 21 June and guess what ? They still haven’t attended todays protest because … wait for it …. they believe Boris will keep his promise to finally end restrictions on July 19 … but if he broke that promise then they would definitely attend the next protest.
Incredible isn’t it ?
Their faith in Boris Johnson reminds me of the battered housewife who believes her abusive husband when he promises her for the umpteenth time he will never beat her again.
I have been saying this since the scales fell from my eyes last year.
and I dare say stockholm syndrome is a genuine issue
A bit like the “Eternal Optimist” falling from the top floor of a multi storey car park heard shouting all the way down…”So far so good“.
Most of the population has been behaving like an abused partner since May last year.
I was there today. There were 20+ Palestinian protestors outside par-liar-ment. They were NEVER in the march. Makes me think they were planted to provide cover for the BBC. Was massive, in the hundreds of thousands, it was 100% Covid.
There did seem to be a few palestinian flags as I was walking round, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were over 100. There were a few socialist workers. I see it as a strength though, such a diverse crowd being brought together (though I did wonder if there were some who just like a good protest)
Over 100 Palestinians, not Palestinian flags, to be clear.
Must take government down
Msm only covered it because Reform UK gave live coverage and had a helicopter up. When the msm realised it was going to be out there they reported on it, two hours after it started.
Well done Reform UK for putting your money into informing the british population.
Matt hancock has resigned, hopefully his constituency will now deselect him.
Did GB News cover it do you know?
Yes – long discussion
Just got home from the march. Pretty much everyone I know is fully signed up to the propoganda, vaccines etc, so to be around likeminded people today was such a tonic and lifts the spirits. And the numbers there today were HUGE!
Yes, it was massive. Hundreds of thousands of real human beings!
The lockdown is no longer about protecting general public health. It’s not fair the people in authority expect and demand us to take pandemic seriously and follow the rules but these are the same people in authority who are not even following their own rules . Its not fair it’s one rule of us but the elite are exempt.
Lockdown was NEVER about protecting public health.
Those ordering it knew it has no effect on epidemic spreading.
This is because the only sources of strong infection are symptomatic patients.
We call them “unwell”. They weren’t out & about in the main, but at home or in hospital.
So lockdown didn’t reduce infectious contacts which were always low in the ambulatory community. Hence no impact.
That’s why no differences in outcomes are apparent between lockdown & non lockdown communities.
Instead, transmission mostly occurred in institutions, where symptomatic patients & susceptible staff coexisted.
Yes these have NEVER been about protective public health, in fact it has been extremely harmful to public health.
I am so sad that anyone at this stage three can be anyone who thinks that the Government has any concern about the public, health or anything else. I really am staggered at how brainwashed or and I say this with great sadness, how very dense people are..
meet the new boss.. same as the ..
https://www.wef.org.in/sajid-javid/
Ugh
Hundreds of Thousands!!!
The Guardian “article” is a disgusting hit piece. I used to once respect that paper. Now I wouldn’t even bother to wipe my arse with it.