London protest and the high drama !!
On Whitehall, crammed in front of three big screens, the crowds swelled to what felt like dangerous levels.
People stood on bus stops and portable toilets to get a better view of the stage.
One man waved a sign saying: “Why are white people despised when our tax money pays for everything?”
Another had a placard that said: “Call centres: speak English.”
One protester screamed:
“I feel our country is being inundated .... and ideology is suppressing us and I just want our country back.”
On the approach to Whitehall, stalls sold books co-authored by Robinson titled “Manifesto: Free Speech, Real Democracy, Peaceful Disobedience” and “Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam”.
(as reported in 'The Guardian', newspaper in London)
One elderly woman in a wheelchair, who travelled to attend from Merseyside with her son, held a sign with Charlie Kirk’s face on it with the words: “God bless, never forget”.
“I’m British through and through; this is our capital,” she said. “I had to be here today for our country.”
Her son added: “I feel our country is being inundated with the ideology which is trying to suppress and suppress us and I just want our country back.”
The pair said they were “followers of Tommy Robinson and what he stands for”, adding the “establishment just want him out”. They denied it was a far-right event, saying their attendance was a “patriotic visit”.
The mother said when she was a child in Liverpool, she “lived amongst neighbours from Africa, Pakistan; we were all one.
It’s not about race, this is the government just overcrowding our country.”
The rally began with music. Members of the Destiny Church in New Zealand performed a traditional haka dance for the protesters, which was followed by a
song with the lyrics - “Making the west look like the Middle East”.
They then displayed the flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic State and Palestine to boos from the crowd, before tearing each of them in half to loud cheers.
Robinson then took to the stage and said
-- “Britain has finally awoken” and that “this is never going away”.
He claimed that British courts ruled that the rights of undocumented migrants supersede those of the “local community”, referring to Epping council’s failed case against the Home Office.
“They told the world that Somalians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, all of them, their rights supersede yours – the British public, the people that built this nation.” He then played a video that included images of convicted members of a grooming gang followed by a video of a white woman crying.
Elon Musk, speaking by video link, told the crowd: “I think there’s something beautiful about being British and what I see happening here is a destruction of Britain, initially a slow erosion but rapidly increasing erosion of Britain with massive uncontrolled migration.”
“A failure by the government to protect innocent people including children who are getting gang-raped. It’s unreal the government has failed in its duty to protect its citizens, which is a fundamental duty of government.”
Like Nepal protest - police faced a “wholly unacceptable” level of violence.
An investigation has begun and the force was working to identify suspects involved in disorder.
“There is no doubt that many came to exercise their lawful right to protest, but there were many who came intent on violence. They confronted officers, engaging in physical and verbal abuse" -- was one voice from an official.
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