Hundreds of activists have descended on Hyde Park in central London to protest the wearing of face coverings.
Demonstrators raised signs reading ‘I will not be masked, tested, tracked’ and ‘no mask’ as they gathered for the Keep Britain Free march from 1pm.
The movement was founded by Simon Dolan, an aviation tycoon worth around £200million, who earlier this month lost a High Court bid to overturn the government’s lockdown rules.
Launching the movement on July 6, the Essex-born entrepreneur said: ‘I believe in freedom of choice for all and the protection of personal liberties. The Government’s actions are crippling the economy, denying children education, and trampling over human rights.’
This is good to see. We may be a small band of relaxed people as Peter Hitchens is wont to refer to us as, in that we are not taken in by the unscientific idiocy and relentless propaganda.
However…
One man wore a plague doctor costume, another had a mask with the front ripped out and one donned a vest saying: ‘Save human rights. No to 5G. No to vaccinations.’
This is when I get that face-palm moment. The 5G conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers are precisely what the opposite side need to discredit a perfectly rational protest and they got it. We can now be written off as cranks and selfish people who don’t understand, who are denying science, when, in fact, the opposite is the case.
I completely agree with you on the subject of the 5G and antivax nutters. It is they who will attract the attention of the MSM and help the MSM to discredit what is a rational protest. I’ve seen this before at pro-Brexit and at various Tommy Robinson demonstrations. Groups like the UK Yellow Vests that have attended these demos have attracted media attention whilst the vast majority of normal thoughtful people who attended these demos were ignored.
The media concentrated on the ‘yellow vests’ group which are small and are mostly made up of those who have oddball ‘six degrees of separation’ conspiracy theories, people who support ‘cancer cure’ quacks, ‘Zionist plot’ nutters and those who have suffered tragedies but who are being exploited by those with particularly iffy agendas. The presence of the nutcases allowed the media to characterise the entirety of those attending as ‘far right’ or ‘deluded’ which was not the case.
Having attended many demonstrations over the years I know that it is very difficult to keep out questionable hangers on. This is a problem not just for centre right or right wing demos but also for centre left ones where I observed that it was impossible to keep members of the Stalin Society for example from turning up to demonstrations and handing out leaflets in their efforts to try to ‘rehabilitate comrade Stalin’ even if the lefties organising the demo in question were patently not Stalinists.
All covered in Spooks Series 5.
The Establishment try to launch an anti-Democracy Coupd’etat starting with an Enabling Act (cf Coronovirus 19 Act March 2020) to run the country at their whim.
The brave population whipped up by internet bloggers unite in a massive Democracy Matters demonstration in London.
The cruel plotters are seen sending in Agents Provocateurs to throw petrol bombs at the riot police thus provoking the shooting…
Despite Harry being the subject of a Temporary Detention Order his team succeed in foiling the plot.