With the Charlie Kirk assassination here in the U.S. it was easy to overlook significant marches and protests occurring in France and the U.K. I want to focus on the British protests for this post: the "Unite the Kingdom March" held a few days ago. It is difficult to get to the truth about the matter through all the vitriol and propaganda in the main stream media.
As far as I can tell, the Unite the Kingdom March was a continuation of the many protests that have sprung up over housing refugees and illegal aliens in posh hotels, typically in smaller communities, creating nexuses of crime. The March was organized by Tommy Robinson and others who want to preserve Britain, its people, and its culture ... and protect its women and children from sexual predators.
Arrayed against them are the globalists who view human beings as interchangeable widgets, and don't care if England turns into a wetter, colder version of Islamabad or Mogadishu because they will still have their wealth or sinecure. Which pretty much includes the whole of the British establishment, media, bureaucracy, and law enforcement.
Police say that nearly 150,000 attended the march (although sources even disagree on this) while organizers believe it was closer to 1 million and Tommy Robinson says he was told by police that it was close to 3 million. However, I've seen headlines that try to downplay all this with careful wording, like this one from CBS News--"Thousands fill London streets for 'Unite the Kingdom' rally organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson"--suggesting that it was perhaps but a few thousand instead of more than 100,000.
And then there is the portrayal of participants as radicals or neo-nazis instead of normal, everyday Brits. Thus, the article mentioned above from CBS, which headline called Tommy Robinson a "far-right activist" as if he was some sort of skinhead that wants to revive the Third Reich. Other similar headlines:
- "Over 100,000 attend London rally organized by far-right activist, clashes break out"--NPR.
- "Tommy Robinson’s day of rage" with the subtitle "The Unite the Kingdom protest in London quickly became something much grimmer than a nationalist street party," from the New Statesman.
- "The far-right march was a significant event, and a sinister one"--The Independent.
- Reuters had a lot to say about how shocked police were about the size of the crowd, the type of people there, the flags that were being flown (mostly the UK and English flags, but also Israeli and American flags), that the protestors opposed illegal immigration, but its headline focused on only one thing: "Police and protesters scuffle as 110,000 join anti-migrant London protest." Well, two things, since opposing illegal immigration became "anti-migrant".
And it's not like I cherry-picked these headlines--they were just the top ones returned by Google when I searched "unite the kingdom march".
The Guardian was a little more subtle, with a headline reading: "Who were the key figures at the ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London?" But once you start reading, you are told that Tommy Robinson is violent and has a long criminal record (but without mention that most of it involves violating some speech and censorship code); Elon Musk is ... well they couldn't really find anything wrong with him ... so he is just called out as one of the world's richest men; Ant Middleton apparently a hypocrite because the article makes much of the fact that he was mostly raised in a foreign country and once beat up a couple of police officers; Ben Habib is ... well, again, they couldn't find anything so they mostly focus on his having a Pakistani father; and Éric Zemmour who the Guardian labels a "far right" French politician, although their complaint mostly seems to be that he is French.
The Independent article mentioned above was dripping with venom, with its opening paragraph stating:
The ironically named “Unite the Kingdom” march – it was much more about fomenting division and hatred – numbered somewhere between 110,000 and 150,000 participants, far lower than the organisers and their acolytes have since claimed, with figures running into the millions. In fact, the inchoate protests were roughly one tenth the size of the largest ever march in the UK, against the Iraq war in 2003, a fraction of the pre-Brexit Remain demonstrations, and smaller than some of the Palestinian Solidarity marches in recent years.
It then goes on to describe why the protest was so sinister, which was because "so many people turned out for it, many who would not regard themselves as extremists, should worry everyone who wants to preserve Britain’s peaceful and tolerant multicultural society and defend its free and democratic traditions." As yes, the old liberal canard that it was a threat to "our democracy"--meaning the elites' democracy--and their attempts to import as much cheap labor as possible. The "free and democratic traditions" must refer to the attempts to stamp out free speech and arrest anyone expressing opposition to mass migration.
Another Independent article, "London protests latest: Starmer says rally sent ‘shiver’ through UK as Musk lashes out at call for sanctions," focused on how Starmer is facing demands to sanction Elon Musk for his speech (remember the "free and democratic traditions" part from the other article) and Starmer's concern for the non-British, quoting Starmer as saying: “It sent a shiver through so many of our communities who now feel more scared than they did before. I understand that.”
Frankly, there was only one that was positive about the marches: "‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally floods London with British, Israeli flags" published by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), which began:
Long marked by Palestinian colors, central London’s protest landscape flipped this weekend as a massive rally filled the streets with British flags—and some Israeli ones.
Headlined “Unite the Kingdom,” Sunday’s rally drew an estimated 150,000 participants from across the United Kingdom and beyond. They marched from Waterloo Station to the House of Commons to protest surging immigration, restrictions on freedom of expression, and what they described as left-wing ideological coercion, among other issues.
It was also the only article of the bunch to interview actual participants of the march and find out why they were there.
It's afraid.
ReplyDeleteI hope so.
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