(1114) Have spent much time in the sidebar this morning … IYE has another, Steve reported earlier (awaiting his wider thoughts on it all), don’t miss DAD’s etc. … ok, onto more things below. (1146)
(1155) Need to break for domestic chores, lunch, med measures, reading today’s output so far. Shall be back with “not quite jazz too” around 1300, all right? (1157)
10. Plod yesterday
9. Kass in Greece
8. Mark Whitford, who was st the march … summary
7. Rolf at Now and Next
6. TPA on Chagos
5. Indeed
10. Plod yesterday – were massively outnumbered and they knew it. I saw fear on many of their faces – especially when they saw a video Tommy put up of them roughly arresting that lady at the civic centre in Epping a couple of weeks ago. She’s the leader of the migrant hotel protest in Epping and there she was, on stage, to talk about it and the fears she has for her three children with illegals roaming the streets. Back to the policing everything was ok until they stopped folk entering Whitehall. There was probably upwards of a hundred thousand already in when they put a barrier up, backed by special riot police with dogs. Didn’t go down to well at all; thousands still crossing the bridge, so they stopped that as well so folk had nowhere to go except the Embankment. That’s when and why the rumble started: too many folk, too small a space. More next.
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JH: Ta Steve, currently finishing soup and a long conversation with MMutR … am going to put it all in Sun 11 about 1430. Using the chance now just to have coffee, choc and lusten to today’s not quite jazz.
Don’t wish to dwell on the policing other than to say it was inadequate for the numbers arriving – something for the organisers to look into for the next one, and there will be a next one, and it will be bigger. Didn’t see or hear any of the counter-protesters, which suited me fine. A load of self-hating, masked-up mewling beta types is the last thing anyone wants to see on such a glorious day for patriots. Moving into position near the stage I came across two GB News presenters, Dougie Beattie and the young Alex Armstrong, whom I shook hands with and had a short chat. The more mature reporter Dougie Beattie, who grew up in Northern Ireland, did a deep dive on the Unite the Kingdom march on GB News this afternoon. Basically he called out the media who are lying about what happened yesterday, the numbers especially: he puts the figure north of 300,000 because the surrounding streets were filled as well. More next.
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JH: Best warn, Steve, the first has already gone up on X, many inc. Elon’s people have seen it. This one goes up now. Once I know you’re done, I’ll post your pieces at UHC-WP as a Steve standalone … whilst my conversation with MMutR will be in a post item here, not as a standalone. Keep em coming please, no timeframe, take all night if necessary. ☺️
There were huge screens every hundred yards or so down Whitehall, each with massive speakers. I counted five, starting with the one directly above the stage. As an aside there should have been two more, taking the whole thing further up Whitehall. That would have helped. I’m wondering why it was changed? By the way, Tommy was inside the moving crowd and I only became aware of that when he passed by me with his security team. Unite the Kingdom started with a rendition of Land of Hope and Glory and everyone joined in. They could probably hear that in Barking (OE Berecingas). Entertainment followed but for brevity I’ll go to the speakers, which started with Laurence ‘Lozza’ Fox. One highlight for me was Sammy Woodhouse, who was repeatedly raped at age 14 by Muslims of Pakistani origin. To me her body language was telling, as she spoke she unconsciously pawed her clothing: like she was trying to stop them from being removed. This young woman is damaged beyond belief. More next.