So the Together Alliance was formed after the Tommeh March last September. It was believed that this type of right wing did not have the majority numbers, but were shouting the loudest and doing better organising.
It was formed by many organisations concerned about the above and Trade Unions are heavily involved, and initially we just heard that Lenny Henry, Paloma Faith, Wolf Alice were supporting it - didn’t hear about other speakers/acts as it was still being worked on.
Polanski didn’t head this up, and wasn’t mentioned even at first. However, he would clearly support it, and the Green Party presence there, so will then have been interested in going and showing his support I imagine.
As he’s like quite big in politics now then people will want to hear him, so I don’t know if he was asked to speak or he asked to do so, as I don’t know how it works, but it is more of an event if bigger name speakers are speaking so I guess it was mutually agreeable.
Like Diane - she is keen on the women stuff and gets involved with the Women Against the Far Right - heading up some marches, speaking etc - she doesn’t organise or put herself up as the headline though.
I didn’t see any of them, as I was so far back we didn’t get to the final bit and needed to be back on the coaches. But it was a great day, not ridiculous, to see so many and everyone working together under one banner.
You should have come along.