© GettyPolice officers frog-march a protester for not following their 'advice' that she stay at home...
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
That's how it felt at the anti-lockdown rally in Hyde Park, London, yesterday, where I was threatened with a fine and arrest for the crime of doing my job. It's also where I got to see Britain at its best - and worst.
There weren't many protestors but those who were made me proud to be British. We were a very mixed crowd, very representative of the melting pot that London has become - and definitely considerably less white and middle class than the crowd you'd find at an Extinction Rebellion rally.
I met a black working-class couple who were both bus drivers; several smartly dressed, well-spoken elderly people; an American former US diplomat and former Democrat voter; a very distressed French-sounding girl distraught that she'd been harassed by police simply for remaining in the same area for more than 45 minutes; a woman who had grown up in 70s Czechoslavakia and recognised the symptoms of Communism all too easily. There were anti-vaxxers, yes, and people who felt that all the world's current ills could be traced back to Bill Gates, yes. But mostly this was a rally about freedom, where everyone present could not quite believe just how easily so many British people had surrendered willingly to the most flagrant assault on liberty in centuries.
This ought not to be a weird, eccentric thing to want to protest.
Comment: Nothing that hasn't been stated dozens of times here previously, and for the last several weeks, but it certainly is interesting to note how much more these truths are being realized by an ever-growing number of doctors and pundits - and how many will react and respond to this information - given how the lies have already wreaked so much havoc on the lives of so many.
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