A huge march against the Far Right

Tommy Robinson is nothing more than a thug.
He certainly doesn’t speak for the vast majority of people in this country on the Right of politics.

ronib

sixahalf you do realise that the photos from this demonstration yesterday didn’t place it in the UK? It could have been anywhere. So if it’s okay with you, a whinge about St George is quite minor considering the loss of British identity currently being approved of by the msm.

Please could you explain what you mean by "loss of British identity currently being approved of by the msm".

Allira

Is this the only country where some people are ashamed of their national flags? 🤔
It does not belong to one extremist group.

It needs to be reclaimed.

How exactly can people "reclaim" their flag?

Replying to Allira Sun 29-Mar-26 15:30:42

It’s interesting that “confusion” is being blamed on reporting, rather than on assumptions about what the march was meant to be. From what I’ve seen, the coverage was fairly specific; it just didn’t support a single, neat narrative.

Linking it to US “No Kings” protests feels more like speculation than something based on what organisers or participants actually said.

DaisyAnneReturns

Oreo

The numbers taking part were puffed massively by the organisers.

You counted?

The police did, roughly as they always do with marches, they reckoned it was more like 50,000 and not 500, 000.

twaddle

Allira

Is this the only country where some people are ashamed of their national flags? 🤔
It does not belong to one extremist group.

It needs to be reclaimed.

How exactly can people "reclaim" their flag?

By flying it more, particularly from public buildings.

twaddle

Allira

Is this the only country where some people are ashamed of their national flags? 🤔
It does not belong to one extremist group.

It needs to be reclaimed.

How exactly can people "reclaim" their flag?

If everyone on that march rallied together and decided to carry the Union flag it might have been a start. There seems to have been a mish-mssh of different protests from photos posted in the press and online, which made it difficult to know what their aim was.

The Union flag does not belong to one extremist group just because they hijacked it.

JenniferEccles

Tommy Robinson is nothing more than a thug.
He certainly doesn’t speak for the vast majority of people in this country on the Right of politics.

No he certainly doesn’t.

JenniferEccles

Tommy Robinson is nothing more than a thug.
He certainly doesn’t speak for the vast majority of people in this country on the Right of politics.

Glad to hear this

DaisyAnneReturns

Replying to Allira Sun 29-Mar-26 15:30:42

It’s interesting that “confusion” is being blamed on reporting, rather than on assumptions about what the march was meant to be. From what I’ve seen, the coverage was fairly specific; it just didn’t support a single, neat narrative.

Linking it to US “No Kings” protests feels more like speculation than something based on what organisers or participants actually said.

That was what the protests in European cities were too. No Kings rallies against Trump.

Outside the United States, Americans living abroad kicked off the day’s demonstrations alongside their neighbors in France, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Greece. A massive, although unrelated, demonstration against the far-right also took place in the United Kingdom.
Guardian 28/3/26

But not here !!
Of course not. We like to do things differently.

Oreo I absolutely agree that the Union flag should be flown on all our public buildings, others may or may not be flown next to it.

I object to it being on every lamppost, waved by the Yaxley mob, painted onto the roads, on roundabouts.

I think the roundabout flags have gone, my own town flies the Union flag, the English and also the Welsh and Scottish flags in the centre, looks lovely.

I object to it being on every lamppost, waved by the Yaxley mob, painted onto the roads, on roundabouts

That us why it needs to be reclaimed as the Union flag.
With a dragon added.

GrannyGravy13

Cossy

TerriBull

There are two different demographics of Iranians who live here, those who fled the country after the Revolution, we lived next door to such a family for over 20 years in our previous house. Then there are those who support the Mullahs and the hard line regime, that has murdered so many of its brave young people, which begs the question why are they here and not back there.

I agree, those who back such a disgusting and murderous regime should go back there and live it!

I also agree, hence my previous post regarding the Iranian flag/s (which were not so called Shah’s flags) on the march.

I looked at a number of photos which were verified as being from yesterday's march. They most certainly were the Shah's flags!

Allira

^I object to it being on every lamppost, waved by the Yaxley mob, painted onto the roads, on roundabouts^

That us why it needs to be reclaimed as the Union flag.
With a dragon added.

How?

twaddle

Allira

I object to it being on every lamppost, waved by the Yaxley mob, painted onto the roads, on roundabouts

That us why it needs to be reclaimed as the Union flag.
With a dragon added.

How?

I'll embroider one.

Oreo

DaisyAnneReturns

Oreo

The numbers taking part were puffed massively by the organisers.

You counted?

The police did, roughly as they always do with marches, they reckoned it was more like 50,000 and not 500, 000.

How do you know?

😁

Oreo

I think the roundabout flags have gone, my own town flies the Union flag, the English and also the Welsh and Scottish flags in the centre, looks lovely.

I’m sure it does and there’s nought wrong with that at all

It was on the BBC news sites as well as in the papers.

At Quaker meeting today I met a young man who had come for the first time. we got talking afterwards and it turned out he had been on the March yesterday in London. He comes from Capetown, I think possibly staying, maybe working here. he was full of enthusiasm.

Now this is where it counts, those who naysay the long term effects of such marches.

We are looking at many young people some of whom will grow to be the next round of leaders of one kind or another whether its politics directly, or writers, or making changes at work, in changes for old attitudes towards women in some cases

thats one of the reasons it counts

they are being enthused and motivated

they carry us forward into the future

As regards the flags: its hardly the fault of the left that the England flag especially has, starting with the likes of Tommy Robinson and spreading out, become a no go as representing my values and what I care about, the kind of England I'd like to see, and so on.

My family live in the countryside in Co Durham which has currently of course got a Reform council. There are whole swathes of small villages and towns where England flags fly
outside peoples bedroom windows down main streets,
like it or not.

And attempts to take them down are being met with direct violence. My grandchildren on their way to school have to bus past this appalling misrepresentation daily of what the flag means, when it wasn't so long ago that - certainly for me - the England Flags came out at major footie times. I object to them being subject to this, but the council or course is doing nothing.

and when they start taking over the Union Jack too - which they are doing - how can anyone find it surprising that for now people choose not to carry it?

Allira

twaddle

Allira

Is this the only country where some people are ashamed of their national flags? 🤔
It does not belong to one extremist group.

It needs to be reclaimed.

How exactly can people "reclaim" their flag?

If everyone on that march rallied together and decided to carry the Union flag it might have been a start. There seems to have been a mish-mssh of different protests from photos posted in the press and online, which made it difficult to know what their aim was.

The Union flag does not belong to one extremist group just because they hijacked it.

I really don't understand how waving Union Jacks would have helped anybody or anything. At the moment Union Jack waving represents jingoism, unless flown at a sporting event or on a special day. Waving them would have been showing support for the jingoism.

Marches such as the one yesterday do show that not everybody is falling for the message of the far right. Those people risk becoming the quiet and forgotten majority, which would be ironic. The risk is that the far right will sneak into power because the opposition is factionalised. Marches show that the opposition can work together.

Reform might be the biggest group at the moment and looking as though it could win a general election. However, it seems to be forgotten that the majority are against Reform and do have the power to stop them, if they unite and grit their teeth and vote for a candidate most likely to beat Reform.

The number of marchers that is.

So are all the flags flown in every other country mere jingoism?

Including Palestinian and Iranian flags?