chrisp65 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 30 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Has anyone here ever been on one of these protests? I mean some might say it's a good cause(whatever cause it is) but seriously, could you get out of bed early on a cold winters day and go to this instead of a football game or a nice warm pub? I **** wouldn't. Yeah, I’ve done a couple, not loads, but a couple in London and a couple locally. I have a friend with relatives in Gaza so I walked with him for a while on the first Palestine march. Again today just met up pre march this time just for a chat and a bit of moral support and all that. All fell silent for 2 mins at the appropriate time. Bit of a half arsed effort by me to be honest. Believe it or not, I too went on a miners rally, but was rather worse for wear by the time I got there and remember very little of it. I do remember the police doing their best to try and cause trouble but most people ignoring them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 47 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Has anyone here ever been on one of these protests? I mean some might say it's a good cause(whatever cause it is) but seriously, could you get out of bed early on a cold winters day and go to this instead of a football game or a nice warm pub? I **** wouldn't. I got stuck in an EDL protest by accident once. Me and my mate went into town intending on getting pissed up, we were walking to the Troc when we walked into a big police barricade, we tried to get to the briar rose instead, we asked a copper if we could just dip under their barricade and run into the pub, copper said yeah no problem, we got half way down the road and about 10 police came charging towards us screaming for us to get back and then there was a shower of bottles come flying through the air, we were rounded back up into the protest group and herded half way across town, we eventually managed to break away after about and hour and we went to the Flapper. The bottles and everything came from the counter protest on new street by the way, I didn't actually see a scrap of violence from the EDL lot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 Been on plenty in my time I have a rather good attendance record at anti-fascist protests in Liverpool Been on marches for the Miners, Student Marches, Printworkers… But mostly these days I kettle fascists 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Rustibrooks said: It’s ironic that barely any of these far right guys are wearing poppies 2 hours ago, VILLAMARV said: Foreign Flowers Yes a national flower of Palestine no less 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 58 minutes ago, Milfner said: They were breaking through so they could head towards the Cenotaph (which is in an exclusion zone) It was only an exclusion zone for the pro-ceasefire March. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 Why do these “right-wing counter-protesters” (as Sky News is calling them) seem to all be wearing a niqab? I thought the shithouses didn’t like that sort of thing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 I’d love Tommy to get arrested again He’s bound to be out on some kind of license already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 3 hours ago, meregreen said: Bravermans rhetoric has consequences. She’s either too stupid to realise it, or this is exactly what she wanted. I’ll go for the latter. She’s a nasty piece of work. Apparently her family came to this country and adopted British values whatever that means. Are these lots chanting ‘England till I die’ the values she speaks of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, Vive_La_Villa said: She’s a nasty piece of work. Apparently her family came to this country and adopted British values whatever that means. Are these lots chanting ‘England till I die’ the values she speaks of? It’s certainly the mob that she speaks to 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Any word from her or Sunak yet on todays events? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustibrooks Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Has anyone here ever been on one of these protests? I mean some might say it's a good cause(whatever cause it is) but seriously, could you get out of bed early on a cold winters day and go to this instead of a football game or a nice warm pub? I **** wouldn't. I’ve been to the student one I think it was 10 years ago in London? That was interesting getting kettled in by the police for a few hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rugeley Villa Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 They do realise it wasn’t just England fighting the war ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 45 minutes ago, bickster said: Been on plenty in my time I have a rather good attendance record at anti-fascist protests in Liverpool Been on marches for the Miners, Student Marches, Printworkers… But mostly these days I kettle fascists Don’t get far in Liverpool do they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, Rugeley Villa said: They do realise it wasn’t just England fighting the war ? I don’t think they even realise the Union flag they’re waving isn’t English 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 strategic thinking isn’t the strong suit for the average hard man gammon is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 11 minutes ago, Rustibrooks said: The amount of people responding to that thinking it reinforces the claim of police bias is quite scary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Terrible to see those far left mobs shouting England till I die. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Genie said: The amount of people responding to that thinking it reinforces the claim of police bias is quite scary. You generally find on twitter it is those with opposing views who comment on posts such as these. It says it all that the far right racist nut jobs have tried to really organise themselves today and yet the numbers that rocked up were tiny especially in comparison to the pro Palestinian march they were opposing. Edited November 11, 2023 by markavfc40 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 11, 2023 Moderator Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said: Don’t get far in Liverpool do they Usually as far as the left luggage office to catch bananas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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