I’m surprised they were not arrested , under the new police laws that current gov brought into use,for holding up signs.
One day these same laws will be used on brexit supporter’s 🤣the irony.
It would have covered the American XL Bully rally, although hardly a lot, because that was in response to a recently announced policy and has been a news item for a while now.
EU marches happen frequently but there isn’t much happening with it. Protest marches happen around Whitehall a lot. EU marches, People’s Assembly Against Austerity marches, climate marches, Union marches, anti-racism marches. Sometimes you’re in Regent Street and some protest goes by full of foreign flags because they’re protesting something happening in another country. The BBC tends not to cover them unless it’s newsworthy in some way, such as being unusually large or in response to something currently in the news.
EU marches have diminishing returns at this point. I was against leaving, still am, and will vote to rejoin in a heartbeat but I think there is now a degree of self-importance amongst the #FPBE crowd in expecting every one of their protests to be national news, it isn’t.
It’s probably for the best that it wasn’t covered, I think it would have hurt their cause more. The only bit I saw was of them performing some bizarre interpretive dance routine whilst dressed like smurfs.
The BBC refuses to cover many issues. During the massive protests against lockdowns/potential vaccine mandates, the BBC was completely silent, even when the protestors physically showed up outside their doors.
Basically, if covering an issue is genuinely inconvenient for the establishment, the BBC won’t touch it. This transcends left/right. They are state run media and you shouldn’t view them as any different to the likes of RT.
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I’m surprised they were not arrested , under the new police laws that current gov brought into use,for holding up signs.
One day these same laws will be used on brexit supporter’s 🤣the irony.
It would have covered the American XL Bully rally, although hardly a lot, because that was in response to a recently announced policy and has been a news item for a while now.
EU marches happen frequently but there isn’t much happening with it. Protest marches happen around Whitehall a lot. EU marches, People’s Assembly Against Austerity marches, climate marches, Union marches, anti-racism marches. Sometimes you’re in Regent Street and some protest goes by full of foreign flags because they’re protesting something happening in another country. The BBC tends not to cover them unless it’s newsworthy in some way, such as being unusually large or in response to something currently in the news.
EU marches have diminishing returns at this point. I was against leaving, still am, and will vote to rejoin in a heartbeat but I think there is now a degree of self-importance amongst the #FPBE crowd in expecting every one of their protests to be national news, it isn’t.
It’s probably for the best that it wasn’t covered, I think it would have hurt their cause more. The only bit I saw was of them performing some bizarre interpretive dance routine whilst dressed like smurfs.
The BBC refuses to cover many issues. During the massive protests against lockdowns/potential vaccine mandates, the BBC was completely silent, even when the protestors physically showed up outside their doors.
Basically, if covering an issue is genuinely inconvenient for the establishment, the BBC won’t touch it. This transcends left/right. They are state run media and you shouldn’t view them as any different to the likes of RT.