Written by Janice North
Two women got on at Baker Street with me and sat opposite. The younger looked at me for awhile, then leaned forward and said “are you going to the march?” We both laughed. ”Yes,” I said, “How can you tell?”
But I too had sensed they were also going. We chatted; her mum – in her 70s – was coming along too. They both felt strongly about freedom and had had enough of lockdowns and the whole coercion tactics.
This time we were supposed to bring children and get them to throw kids shoes and things over parliaments gates to highlight the aversion to jabbing of children. But I doubted many kids would be able to come as the summer holidays hadn’t started yet. But parliament breaks up on Wednesday so of course the urgency for the rally was now.
I and my tube friend were both concerned about the DNR abuse – why is it ever used without permission? Why is it kept secret from individuals and families? Why has its use been increased for disabled people and everyone in care homes? Was it used to increase Covid deaths? These are all questions that must be answered.
When we arrived at Westminster we could hear the crowd. There were a huge variety of chants and messages all based around the “pandemic”. Posters against lockdown, anti-vaccine, pro-ivermectin, protect our kids, Boris is a bin bag…
Today was Freedom Day, widely being renamed as Disaster Day, with Boris in isolation and the row about lockdown still raging. While others argued many simply grabbed freedom.
The only thing I instinctively agree on is that we are facing a huge mental health time bomb. Many don’t want their freedom back, they’ve got used to being locked away and being told what to do. And many poor souls have been so lonely and cut off that they are now suicidal, what little human contact they had having been cruelly torn away.
‘Resist – Defy – Do not comply’
Save our kids!
Shame on you!
Don’t take the vaccine!
Different chants went out through the day.
Traffic was unable to pass through parliament square and an attempt by the police to clear it was met with a sit down protest.
Piers Corbyn arrived and we gathered to hear what he had to say. He is a nice man and along with his speech he now often tries to give suggestions on what vitamins and tonics to take in order to combat side effects of the jab. Mark Sexton the ex policeman attracted a huge crowd on the green but it was virtually impossible to hear him.
Whatever your feelings on the vaccine – for or against – our civil liberties have been severely undermined and we can no longer afford to sleepwalk through life.
Parliament was taken over for the day. People chanted, made speeches, danced, sang, and attempted to reach Downing Street but were blocked off by the police. A Nigerian protest was apparently taking place there.
The heat of the sun increased as the day went on. Many found shade by the Suffragettes statue. “Courage calls to courage everywhere”.
On buying a cold drink I noticed riot police amassing by the station. Then they seemed to strike a pose and begin trotting towards the crowd. These protests are clearly used as training procedures by the police. Their numbers are always too large for peaceful protests. Police over-presence always inflames the crowd – either pointless or deliberate? – both I would say. A long row of masked police also stood outside parliament gates. A row of police vans were lined up opposite Westminster station. At one point the police started to push the crowd. Yes, part of their job is to keep London moving but that wasn’t going to happen today in Westminster so pushing people around was pointless.
Eventually I sat down behind Churchill and wondered what direction the great man himself would have given us. I think he would be shocked we ever entertained a lockdown in the first place. I looked at the MSM News – surprise – they were reporting on our protest, but we were “anti-vax louts” throwing bottles at the police… ah so that’s why we weren’t being ignored today unlike vastly larger protests I have attended… they had an agenda for today’s reporting.
Eventually the police formed themselves into a barrier and a loudhailer with a recorded message was informing everyone to stand on the Green if they wanted to protest.
Time to go home I thought, with a detour by the beautiful Thames for some air and to ponder on where on Earth we go from here…
[Photos courtesy of Janice North]
We Freedom Days organising right across the country – not just London.
And Janis, You’re much too nice.
I feel frustrated by lack of clout. Lots of tiddly little protests. Ask onlookers what theythink. Usually there is tolerance, some amusement, nearly all feel some sort of agreement or sympathy
All are fed up with politics. The evasion, the insincerity, the obviously lying excuses, the constant roundabout of jobs, rewards, the never doing anything properly or completely , the secretive but over powerful civil service. The obvious cringing a**e licking of the media. The veiled but studied contempt exhibited by ” Lets have 30 more men down that side street “. But nobody cares. The vast wealth and favouritism which benefits the creepers by the incredible trillions£ means ” They don’t care.
Nobody seems to have noticed But the civil service grew by 27,000 bureaucrats in the last Quarter of the year. There are now 468,000 Civil Servants creeping about, telling us what to do.
Just look 468,000.That’s one for every 40 people working. And we are cutting the number of armed forces? .. How many policemen do we have? how many Soldiers ? ( 80,000 )., How many bureaucrats taking shelter in theCPS , Now, I understand, at a standstill .( How many bureaucrats are lurking in the MOD. clogging things up . and by a stroke of a pen can be hidden in the Home Office or other Union controlled department.)
Crazy and criminal waste,.
What is wrong is that there is no FOCUS for all the discontent. UKIP are traitors and have joined LibLabConUKIP
If these parties do not work, we need another. To provide a FOCUS of PROTEST. Forget Labour they’re just co-conspiring.
In effect TGS what you have described is the Circumlocution Office that was so admirably portrayed by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit
What is wrong is that there is no FOCUS for all the discontent.
I’m reminded of a poem by Shel Silverstein
Magic Carpet
By Shel Silverstein
You have a magic carpet
That will whiz you through the air,
To Spain or Maine or Africa
If you just tell it where.
So will you let it take you
Where you’ve never been before,
Or will you buy some drapes to match *** drapes = curtains
And use it
On your
Floor?
What is this magic carpet that we already have? I suggest it lies in our own English Constitution which pre-dates party and party corruption. Which implicitly means that ‘if we continue to do as we’ve always done, we ae likely to get what we’ve always got.’ and the added question ‘is that good enough?’ If we think it is good enough, so be it. Otherwise, wake up and smell the coffee.
We need to change the way we do things and stop wringing our hands in despair.
Nigel Farage lured thousands of UKIP members to the Brexit party. UKIP councillors went too. In Wales the UKIP Assembly members flocked to the Brexit Party. Neil Hamilton, the only UKIP AM then remaining, and 27 other brave candidates put their heads above the parapet in the Welsh Assembly election in May. Why do you call UKIP traitors? I am a member. It’s the only Party that has a manifesto that resonates with me. Yes the Party has had huge problems. I was a branch chairman for 5 years and there were times when the shenanigans were enough to make the parson swear. The Brexit Party morphed into the missionless Reform Party and since Nigel left it it has disappeared. Dozens of small parties are going to be swatted away like annoying flies by the established LibLabCon. Why not give UKIP another chance? What other option is there?
Well said Ceri. I am a member too.
I am also a UKIP member and do not take kindly to being labelled a traitor and an associate to LibLabCon. I also take my hat off and applaude those who are true to UKIP and continue to stand up and be counted.
Yes Ceri, at least voters will know what UKIP is there for, which is a genuine Brexit, unlike the BRINO that the WA&PD and the TCA have given us. That’s because UKIP has had a lot of publicity in its time, far more than any other pro-Brexit party before or since the BRINO.
Ceri,
this is quite interesting. I have been an invisible supporter since 93 and a consistent suggester of innovations both little and large. Until Braine and then later Batten, nobody except Batten wanted to listen, only to their own ideas. Although I have spoken a few times to Ben Walker, who seems a reasonable young lad. And of course the staff do their jobs beautifully. So i have tried airing them on ID, They seem to listen and file things away and argue and that’s great. I am happy with all.
But UKIP no longer exists in reality. And even if it did it would inevitably find itself back in the same old again.I know it’s wierd but that is what it is.
The whole structure, and hierarchy are wrong. Not unreasonable, Just silly and internally destructive.
It is quite clear that no one has considered ukip as anything other than a vehicle for glory. They think in terms of power being running a few hundred people, or being listened to in speeches in ever more glorious venues.. They dont grow on trees so don’t expect to be one.
Americans call it campaigning. I thought for about 2 months Bolton might be one. But No- one ever found out if there was substance . Every leader we have had has been stultified by the party peculiarities and as it stands cannot ( Despite its goodwill ) do anything. I did think that Hamilton might( With his impressive wife). But he seems to have just become his peak as an MP. Hardly a pinnacle.
My conclusion is unfortunalely that there is no one whos got it, and if they had it would be instantly snuffed out.
I have tried constantly to hint to guide, to explain, to educate. Key moments come and go spectacular opportunities com and go. Things that should be done are smothered.
The one thing ukip has is sentiment and also Nigel. All wasted.
As for traitor, Just not fighting LibLab etc is treachery. Manifestos are and were important and hopefully one day may mean something. But that is not a manifesto. Its Apple pie. Pathetic. But maybe one day . Groan.!
Those 28 in Wales fought hard. They had to put up £500 each to stand and campaigned and leafleted, had a motor cavalcade, had Voice of Wales radio station…The Barley and Spen by election candidate was courageous in his stance on free speech. I think there is a £100000 cap that can be spent in constituency elections. The established parties spend it to the hilt. UKIP has pence to spend since the exodus of members to Brexit party. I take my hat off to those who are true to UKIP and have dug deep into their own pockets.
The established LibLabCon – in reality the CON party will ensure UKIP is swatted away like an annoying fly as it has since 2016. I was one of those Nigel tried to lure to Brexit; he was targeting county and regional officers and those he knew were not happy with Gerard’s attachment to Tommy Robinson. I got a couple of very posh invites to private drinks with him. And he did get many who were disillusioned with the Tommy issue, not me – I resented him trying to undermine the party that launched him.
UKIP traitors? How? It certainly had it’s enemies within who have ensured it remained in chaos or simply a joke. The coup, the unconstitutional suspension of loyal, longstanding members, the disgusting treatment of not one but two legitimate leaders and a legitimate chairman and other horrors have driven many of us away. I had the privilege to know two great Welsh members, Hugh Moelwyn Hughes and Stan Edwards. Hugh is a founding member, you would not find anyone wiser or more loyal Kipper- with Freddy driven off by dubious means even he resigned. Stan may still be hanging on.
Thank you Janice for this insightful glimpse of the protest and the increasingly sinister activities of the police. It is apparent that the police now exist to serve the Tyrannical State and not to protect The People! To such a depth as this I could never have believed that my Country could sink! I saw the following clip yesterday that had been posted on The Daily Sceptic site. I proves beyond doubt that the police is now in the business of brutality!
Frederica, watching that video I’m appalled. The Territorial Support Group are the lowest of the low. I got really worried about that young man being held down for ten minutes. If I’d been there I’d have been yelling at the police too. How has our country got to this pass so quickly?
I was appalled too Xantilor! I felt physically sick watching and I was asking myself the same question that you have just posed. If I had been watching a newsreel of some far-off regime in a known-to-be-repressive administration, I should still have felt sickened….but not surprised! The fact that this is England is the real ‘shocker’.
Because too many turned their faces away. We didn’t do enough for Assange, Robinson, Southern, Soldier F and many more. The establishment journalists ignored their fellow men and women. The linger we accept the propaganda and the lies, the linger we turn our faces away, the sooner they will come for us.
Angela, there is no need for me to quote Niemöller “First they came……. “. You know what it is. The writing was on the wall when Tommy Robinson was sent to high security Belmarsh for a trivial matter but that was o.k. he was just a thug right?.
Now they are coming for the rest and eventually the ones cheerleading it now could well suffer, it’s what the Left do.
Where is the outrage? The young man in the video was clearly in distress after being punched repeatedly and probably much more by cowardly pigs (I’ll adopt the BLM terminology here). I have nothing but disgust for them, but no outpouring of anger at police brutality?
Personally from now on I will be indifferent to attacks (even to killings) on the police, the pendulum swings both ways.