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[Closed] Massive anti-lockdown in Trafalgar rally right now?

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Don’t get why they're still angry, didn’t they get what they wanted?

From what I can gather after a brief listen it comes over like a youtube comments stream in real life, where conspiracy, an emerging (and highly suspect) ‘culture/class-war’ combined with snake-oil and pseudo-science is the order of the day.

Is this the kind of ‘anarchy’ that the memers/youtube/social-media outrage-baiters/influencers wanted?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:12 pm
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Don’t get why they’re still angry, didn’t they get what they wanted?

Maybe they have run out of stuff to be ignorant/ill informed about? Once climate change 'restrictions' get going they will have loads to protest about and can claim none of that is necessary either.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:16 pm
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Maybe they just couldn't get a refund on the tickets and had paid for the banners to be printed already.
Bloody idiots as afaik lockdown is over, unless now it is the tyranny of other people wearing masks because they actually want to


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:18 pm
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Solidarity with the protests in Australia?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:24 pm
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Ever seen Trafalgar Square on an average summer weekend? I wonder how "massive" these protest would be if them somewhere that wasn't just busy anyway. I attended a religious protest the other day, well I walked down the street whilst some bloke shouted "look busy Jesus is coming" or words to that effect.

Save a few people some time watching it I managed about 3 minutes:

Someone shouting "freedom, freedom, freedom", Katie Hopkins, Piers, some trump flags, a woman shouting "the banks are lending you your money and charging you interest for it", a bloke telling us that the square mile is a conspiracy that's been going on since before William the Conqueror and that mainstream media is going to do time in a concrete cell with a concrete bed unless they come clean.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:24 pm
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It's the Round Table doing all this, but now it's called something else and he can't remember the name? 😂


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:27 pm
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And these ****s will still vote tory


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:29 pm
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It’s the Round Table doing all this, but now it’s called something else and he can’t remember the name? 😂

Lizards. You just have to follow the money and do your own research. But it's always lizards in the end.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:30 pm
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Posted : 24/07/2021 3:50 pm
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Some people just enjoy being angry.

Heres a song about one:


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:57 pm
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These people are actually proud of their stupidity and ignorance.

How did we get to this state?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 3:59 pm
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They just want to be “heard and understood”. Just don’t ask them any questions about what they are saying… that’s not what they mean.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:08 pm
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How did we get to this state

I think decades of ‘austerity’, tabloids*, boredom, entitlement etc.

*And now youtube/social media to up the fever. Disinformation is an especially easy business nowadays.

Hatie Plopkins et al know a good grift when they see it.

The whole anti-lockdown thing now ‘lockdown’ is over reminds me of those especially committed Brexit sorts who got their exit, but won’t be happy until they see the EU itself destroyed, and every last ‘foreigner’ gone from these shores.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:08 pm
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There's also a massive pro-lockdown protest happening right now too, but all involved have decided to stay in.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:29 pm
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There’s also a massive pro-lockdown protest happening right now too, but all involved have decided to stay in.

Took me a second....


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:35 pm
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How did we get to this state?

Was it ever any different really?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:38 pm
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They just want to be “heard and understood”.

And at the same time claiming theyre being oppressed and arent allowed to speak their minds.
What is funny is the vids on free press and how they cannot speak. While showing the vid on the internet 😆 😆 😆


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:45 pm
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Yes apart from the livestream on YouTube and the big rally they are being allowed to carry out in the centre of the capitol they've been totally censored.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 4:48 pm
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There was some American woman, dont know her name. She spoke at a public meeting while wearing a mask that said 'Censored' on it 😆
Speaks publicly ,is allowed to speak publicly - claims to be censored 😆 you just couldnt make it up 😆


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:00 pm
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Who's this guy? He sounds like he's struggling to breath, wonder if he's got covid?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:03 pm
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Awaits cinnamon girls post....


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:12 pm
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Your idea of freedom may be medical passports, jabs, a 2 tier society and coercion.
Fortunately a lot of others don't consider this to be freedom.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:13 pm
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****ing idiotic ****s

^ and you as well if that's your belief


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:16 pm
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Awaits cinnamon girls post….

Nah, she's too cagey for that. Besides there will be a dickhead along shortly, no doubt.

daveylad

If only buses were as predictable.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:22 pm
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Loads of bellends in Manchester as well giving it a ring protesting about the vaccine as well.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:28 pm
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Ignore them. **** them.

If they want to impose restrictions on themselves then let them.

Looking at the personnel at these events it would be great if there was an international travel ban for the unvaccinated. Imagine how nice a Spanish resort could be without "oi-oi" nobheads, their fag-toting, muffin top sporting spouses and their feral offspring.


 
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Also - that harpy at the top. The T-shirt should say 'Attention Seeker'.

But with a misspelling, obviously.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:38 pm
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Your idea of freedom

It’s all a balance.

The freedom to race cars on residential streets at 100 mph whenever the whim takes you. The freedom to not have a car arriving by surprise in your living room while you watch F1 on TV.

The freedom to smoke whatever you want wherever you want. The freedom to work in a smoke free environment if you have respiratory conditions.

The freedom to carry a firearm. The freedom to have a night out with your mates with minimal chance of getting caught in crossfire at a shooting incident.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:42 pm
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It’s all a balance.

Not if you're a simplistic peckerhead desperately seeking attention.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 5:46 pm
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Your idea of freedom may be medical passports, jabs, a 2 tier society and coercion.
Fortunately a lot of others don’t consider this to be freedom.

It's absolutely not mine either.

But I can also see the need and benefit of foregoing some freedoms.  I'm not a selfish prick.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 6:01 pm
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I'm presuming these people aren't going to be happy till they're living in The Purge?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 6:30 pm
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was in the area today and walked past it on way to Charing Cross with my 10 year old daughter, lots of utter bellends, crowd seemed to be about 70% female and several groups of them on the fringes of the protest were hurling abuse at passersby wearing masks for being “sheep c*nts”, one with a megaphone was even chanting it at a petrified elderly couple - I asked a group of Police nearby whether they deemed that acceptable but they just shrugged their shoulders. Hopefully the next variant just kills morons like these


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 6:42 pm
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These people just don't know who to aim their actual anger at, or what they are annoyed with.

It just manifests as a Farage type elite anti-experts faux-freedom tirade.

Really they should just spend their efforts on removing the Tories.

That would probably on balance deliver a better country for them.

I do wonder where these people go when there are proper civil liberty issues.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 7:03 pm
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The “vaccine passport” stuff may well turn them against the Tories. It may be a seen as necessary public health move by some advising the government, but I also think it will be detrimental to convincing people who have so far been at all sceptical of the measures needed during the pandemic to support any new measures needed (including vaccinating the young). It could also be the red line that turns many away from Johnson’s take on Conservatism, and back into the arms of the total fruitcakes and grifters he’s worked so hard to usurp on his rise to the top.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 7:11 pm
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but I also think it will be detrimental to convincing people who have so far been at all sceptical of the measures needed during the pandemic to support any new measures needed

They're a lost cause regardless, you see them all now proudly not wearing masks in shops etc. Selfish morons will be selfish morons.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 7:26 pm
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It could also be the red line that turns many away from Johnson’s take on Conservatism, and back into the arms of the total fruitcakes and grifters he’s worked so hard to usurp on his rise to the top.

Slightly related - but there's a book out next month arguing that Tory support is set implode. Whatever form that takes.

I will dig out the details.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 7:47 pm
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They’re a lost cause regardless, you see them all now proudly not wearing masks in shops etc.

There will be plenty of borderline cases… the first hint of “coercion”, as daveylad puts it, could push many people in the wrong direction.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 7:50 pm
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They’re a lost cause regardless, you see them all now proudly not wearing masks in shops etc.

It's been interesting as I work a few hundred meters from a massive supermarket so tend to get lunch there every day rather than be organised.

Monday I'd say 60% of the public were wearing masks, and hardly any staff were. By Friday I think I saw 2 members of the public not wearing them and about 50/50 on the staff. Which is kinda understandable, they're fine for half an hour, horrible if you have to do a shift in them.

And I don't think it's "pride" in being "selfish" either. I think that's a perception imposed by a middle class that's had over a year of WFH with only the weekly supermarket shop to worry about with their cute masks bought from Etsy. The people not wearing masks seem to be the types who've probably had to work though lockdown wearing them. And TBH having done a few weeks working on a site where they were mandatory at all times, despite the fact that after 10minutes they were just a soaking wet bit of tissue giving you scabby skin as it rubbed off. I really don't blame them for taking them off.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:18 pm
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Let them eat cake


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:20 pm
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imposed by a middle class

Do mean doctors, public health experts and scientists?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:21 pm
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horrible if you have to do a shift in them

Oh, shift. Sorry, my mistake.


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:22 pm
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Do mean doctors, public health experts and scientists?

@kelvin
Did you read what was written or just go looking for something to quote out of context?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:27 pm
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Do mean doctors, public health experts and scientists?

🙂

yes, that lot who know nufink!


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:28 pm
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despite the fact that after 10minutes they were just a soaking wet bit of tissue giving you scabby skin as it rubbed off. I really don’t blame them for taking them off.

Good job you're not a surgeon then


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:30 pm
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At the risk of sounding like one of them it is a bit odd that this doesn't seem to be recieving much
/any coverage on the BBC website. It looks like a fairly big event. Is there a deliberate policy not to cover loony conspiracy nut events?


 
Posted : 24/07/2021 8:31 pm
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