A huge march against the Far Right

Only 50,000 turn out in London where protesting is a way of life thats only 0.6% of the population.
Must have been very disappointing and the views on this site are very biased to draw any conclusions.

But you’ve missed the elephant in the room David49, look at the time period that particular article covers, and equate it to the end of university and school summer terms, it doesn’t represent the actual picture. After years of study, most young people take the summer after their exams off. The government figures a remote representative of underlying reality.

The BBC does not say what you said David. You talked of 18 - 24, they talk of 16 - 24. Please check your accuracy or many will simply not believe you.

I notice that NEETS figures include parents of very young children. This seems acceptable to me. When I had my children very few mothers went straight back to work. I think the harridan calls in those days would have been against both parents returning to work. Now they are against caring for your child - if recent posts are to be believed they are now seen as freeloaders.

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For those who think that the Together Alliance march was all about Londoners, here are just three picture from many.

People came from all over the UK.

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For those who think that the Together Alliance march was all about Londoners, here are just three picture from many.

People came from all over the UK.

Looking at the banners it seems they were protesting about everything especially the Labour government, if it was country wide it was very poor.

madeleine45

I knew about it and am with you definitely against them, and think it was a good job to show how you felt. I spoke to several people here and we are also proud of them. I was busy supporting a special Ukrainian day we had here , which went very well and that is the way we try to help around here, and make people feel cared for and welcome

You seem like a great person.

mum2three

I can understand so many people who wish all the worlds population could live together in harmony. However, human nature prevents it happening, so they must face reality. Put aside all this hippie love stuff and accept the fact that there are people out to destroy our country.
At the next election, all the sensible, rational people who didn't vote last time must get out and do so at the next one. Otherwise we will end up with another airy-fairy government which hasn't a clue how to run a country.

I'm sure there are individuals who would love to destroy the UK. However, please could you name any group which has a reasonable chance of wrecking it.

Peace, love,

PS. Apart from Farage and his acolytes.

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For those who think that the Together Alliance march was all about Londoners, here are just three picture from many.

People came from all over the UK.

Looking at the banners, most people would have no clue what those people were protesting about.

It was not a unified message at all.

Allira

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For those who think that the Together Alliance march was all about Londoners, here are just three picture from many.

People came from all over the UK.

Looking at the banners, most people would have no clue what those people were protesting about.

It was not a unified message at all.

Sorry, what on earth are you talking about?

It was a large group of people who are fed up with the creeping right wing rhetoric.

Things that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago are now out there.

I believe this was the gist of it?

Allira

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For those who think that the Together Alliance march was all about Londoners, here are just three picture from many.

People came from all over the UK.

Looking at the banners, most people would have no clue what those people were protesting about.

It was not a unified message at all.

But that isnt the point, as a push back against the Far right will be from people whose concerns do vary.

The very thing you find problematic, is the variety of posters, (*as were the gatherings over the world*)

Is what is special: it wasn't a predictable: "Leftie rent-a-mob".

It's clear that Trumps war has stirred up a realisation of what Far right politics and policies mean, and the policies include various strands, and there they were.

David49

Only 50,000 turn out in London where protesting is a way of life thats only 0.6% of the population.
Must have been very disappointing and the views on this site are very biased to draw any conclusions.

If, as posters say ( and it does look that way from the various banners) marchers came from all over the country to share their different gripes, then at 50,000 it was a very poor turn out.
They weren’t all against the far right either, they were marching for this that and the other.😄

I honestly don’t think you can draw any conclusions at all from this disparate march Wyllow3 it was just disgruntled groups and will be forgotten before Easter is over.
What people will be concerned about in reality is the forthcoming doctors strike.

It is early days, I do acknowledge, but I think we are seeing the start of a push back. something we are seeing on a far greater scale in the USA. Something to watch with hope: as I said also, we are the generation largely leaving activism, let's see what young people do, and even more what my grandchildrens generation come up with.

I never think it is foolish to have hope: I find those who would apparently view it with a "whats the point" unnecessarily negative, as there is much to put right as regards defeating the appalling Far right views.

I also think one can be concerned about more than one thing at once.

Had it been an all anti far right march, then still a poor turnout but more impressive, but it simply wasn’t.
I have hope for the future of the UK too as do countless other posters am sure but don’t think we need to be worried about the far right here.
The US will do its own thing, as it always does.

MeanwhileNigel Farage was at a sell out rally in Norwich tonight. For weeks protestors were urged to demonstrate as he entered. A few dozen turned up and had left after a very short while.

Nigel Farage can draw a crowd and Reform are popular but in a GE scenario they could only powershare with the Conservatives to make the numbers needed, and both groups have said they wouldn’t do that.
More worrying are the Greens and Lib Dems 😲

All 1300 of them Primrose53. There is a blow by blow account of all the scintillations here.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/25985705.live-updates-reform-rally-nigel-farage-norfolk/

Of course, it goes without saying that to make the numbers they would have to powershare with Labour.

It’s not promising either way the next GE will turn out.

There seem to be people on this board who don’t understand want the words “together” and “alliance” mean, that people can have different motivations but an overarching objective.

(Perhaps read Scruton on citizenship which Goodwin has misunderstood and misquoted.)

They are determined to criticise the thousands of people, from all over the UK, who got up off their backsides, got on buses and coaches and trains in the early hours of Saturday morning, to travel to London to come together to make a stand against the far right.

Pages ago, I posted the link to the website which explains what this was about and the many, many organisations who have joined the alliance.

Here it is against for those who can be bothered.

www.togetheralliance.org.uk/supporters#block-29e4bdeb-f7bf-4d4d-8fc1-58f65c014948

What’s that expression? The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

And what if different groups did have different motivations for being there? Reform is not holding back on telling the country which laws it will repeal, which rights it will stop, whether it’s our human rights, equality rights, workers’ rights, tenants’ rights, our right not to live in fear of that these people could do if ever they got to Downing Street.

Farage won’t. He’ll be long gone before 2029 but there are others under his banner intent on making life harder for everyone other than the wealthy.

They won’t get to Downing St.

Casdon I don’t need to read that. I heard about it first hand from my friend who attended. She said it was a brilliant turnout and NF received a standing ovation.

I wasn’t trying to compare numbers, just reporting what was a sell out event on a cold, March evening.

to come together to make a stand against the far right.
Pages ago, I posted the link to the website which explains what this was about and the many, many organisations who have joined the alliance.

We know on this thread because you have already explained, thank you. However, I would think the majority of people, looking at the banners with all their disparate messages, would have much idea of the aim of this protest.
It was especially made less clear because it was on the same day as the universal anti-Trump marches.

Perhaps it was the fault of the organisers who should have suggested a common theme for the banners.