'Unite the Kingdom' is a right-wing UK protest group, founded by rabble-rouser Tommy Robinson.
Robinson is quite an unsavoury character, with a string of criminal convictions, assaults, and bankruptcy to his name.
I'm not quite sure exactly when this protest took place; but it says 8 months ago.
What amazes me are the number of people present. Could it be AI generated?
It comes courtesy of The Guardian (a piss-poor Lefty rag), who wouldn't normally wish to make Robinson seem more popular than he actually is.
I suppose I'll have to accept that the film is genuine.
'Unite the Kingdom' is basically anti illegal immigrant, anti Islam, anti woke-lefty, and anti just about everything to the left of Genghis Khan.
Presuming that the film really is genuine, I'm amazed by how popular this movement is. OK, we're all aware of the strong feelings nationally towards certain troublesome groups, but I had no idea it was THIS strong.
I'm hopeless at estimating crowd numbers, but my guess is 'LOTS'.
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Your blog posts relating to your political views cause me to be surprised at your penultimate paragraph stating amazement about the popularity of this movement.
As I'm sure you know, I dislike extremes in politics. I dislike the extreme right as much as I do the extreme left; and I am suspicious of both of them.
It still doesn't explain your amazement. Robinson is much maligned and labelled with weaponised words and inaccurate reporting by ill-informed people. He is for freedom of speech and all the things Britain lost during the Blair years.
I'm not surprised that he's popular, but there did seem to be a HUGE number of people there. This must have taken place last November (roughly), and I don't remember any such protest; especially so big.
Taking the recent local election results across the country the numbers should be no surprise.
"The Guardian" is the most erudite, most well-considered and most fair-minded modern newspaper in Great Britain. To have you describing it as "a piss-poor Lefty rag" is itself piss poor Crozier.
As for Yaxley-Lennon, he is the scum of the earth and therefore a foreign darling for the American MAGA right. Personally, I would send him permanently to Rwanda with no social media access.
I agree with you Stephen Yaxley Lemon is indeed a very unsavoury character, with multiple criminal convictions. In my opinion he is a rather nasty racist oik who has rebranded himself as all about free speech and now God. And people are falling for that.
The Guardian is a rubbish paper, which is why very people read it. All it's ex-readers now go for The Daily Mail, making their readership now 50/50 left/right.
And yet he has a huge following, which proves my point that if government ignores the feelings of the electorate, people such as Robinson will become even more popular
This was months before the recent local elections.
I shouldn't be replying to this post because I don't allow similar conversations on my blog, but it's great for entertainment value. YP can say what he likes, freedom of speech and all that, but he has been programmed to follow the loopy lefty Labour Party, so we should make allowances for that. He soldiers blindly on in the belief that the Guardian is the Holy Grail and the purveyor of all things good. Extremes in politics are a waste of time, unless you are going to fight your corner to the death, which I am not. I stay in the middle.
Yes I know. I was hoping that you might have grasped that I meant with the benefit of hindsight.
The Daily Mail now that is a rag. Just look at the front page for the last few weeks and count how many times Harry and Meghan are mentioned
Yes, they're now catering for their new lefty readership.
You are right that people will fall for populists. Lennon, Farage and Lowe (the person that the Reform party kicked out) all tap into the racist element in society. Unfortunately many people vote based on feelings and not facts.
The Guardian used to be a respected newspaper, but it now has very little following. It blindly follows Corbyn style nonsense.
He is vicariously labelled as standing for freedom of speech because he is so often arrested for saying the wrong thing or for contempt of court.
Do post a link to support your statements on political leaning of UK newspaper leadership. I find your statement that the Daily Mail is 50/50 left right difficult to believe as I do your statement about The Guardian and Corbyn
It was a while back that The Mail did a survey of the political leanings of their readership; it was roughly 50/50 right/left. The Mail is now the most popular paper in the UK, and The Guardian is amongst the least. People want the truth.
There is nothing vicarious about it. The photo that Cro posted was from the 2025 protest that was billed as a “festival of free speech.” That is how he has now branded himself
Oh interesting. So he is claiming that for himself. Shows how little I know about him. I had never heard of the march.
I don’t associate quality with popularity.
As for “truth” the Daily Mail isn’t even accepted as a source for Wikipedia “ citing a long-standing reputation for poor fact-checking, sensationalism, and fabrication” so much for truth.
Now that surprises me. It was front page news at the time and probably lead story on the news. If I recall correctly the estimates were 100,000 and Musk appeared via video link. Cant remember how many were arrested or police injured.
I don't watch the news on tv ever and some days I don't get a newspaper if I don't go out so it must have passed me by.
Haven’t read a physical newspaper in years but always read a couple online and usually watch Channel 4 News
Many of my friends are Guardian readers. I cannot imagine any of them swapping to reading the Mail.
I do read it occasionally myself, but only as a 'comic'.
I was on an Air Canada flight and offered a newspaper. I asked for a Guardian, knowing the UK flights carried these. The flight attendant (Canadian) replied that they didn’t have a Guardian but did have a Daily Mail. I responded that it was hardly a substitute, the Brit in the seat behind me snorted loudly.
The DM is by far the most popular newspaper in the UK. I no longer read it, as it annoys me. My news now comes from the Msn news feed on my laptop, which is taken from a random selection of the world's papers.
It has the largest sales of a physical newspaper. The guardian has largest monthly on line readership. The trouble with MSN is that it feeds you more stories similar to ones you have already read as a consequence two people using MSN will be fed quite different stories on the same day
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