To think Michael Gove wasn’t just out for a stroll through Victoria station last night

[Everythingnotsavedwillbelost73]

So Michael Gove just ‘happened’ to be strolling through Victoria station last night right through the middle of a pro- palestine sit in 🙄 How fucking stupid do they think people are?

Deflects nicely from Suella & right wing Tommy Robinson mob doesn’t it. The palestine March was mostly peaceful given the huge numbers but you always get a few dickheads on any March. The right wing mob however we’re fighting with police at the cenotaph. The state of this country.

No wonder MPs are out of touch. They have to have security at their surgeries. Endless hate mail. Two MPs murdered in the recent past.

Can't think why the Daily Vile is leading on this rather than the repulsive scenes at the Cenotaph. That rag and it's columnists which include Sarah Vine, Dorries and Johnson wanted the march to be a blood bath. It was very peaceful, There was appalling behaviour by Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka "Tommy Robinson") and the brain dead semi-articulate thugs who do his bidding. Why isn't the Mail leading on this and also featuring the wonderful shot of him escaping in a taxi just as things really hot up.

I see someone has got a new name

Because all that doesn't suit their owners bidding does it !

Choux
The route of the march - with up to 500,000 people expected - passed right outside Victoria

Victoria Station is roughly a third of the way along the route in your map - Gove was there in the evening.

The security they need on a regular day makes Gove's actions yesterday look even more ludicrous / foolhardy / deliberate. <delete as appropriate>.

The MPs recently murdered were not as high profile as Gove yet he trots round Victoria to see how the protest is going? Come on - who is that stupid?

Even if he did walk there on purpose for some kind of reaction, the protesters gave him one didn’t they? A lot of these protests attract bad people unfortunately and it does the cause no good.

I don’t understand why just because you’re at a protest it gives someone the right to behave like like a nasty thug? It’s not ok

Are you saying you think it’s right? That someone in 2023 in England shouldn’t be able to walk around London without this happening

He may or may not be gay or bisexual but he's not out, and Vine hasn't even hinted at outing him in the course of a fairly scratchy divorce.

I can't stand Give, but it's not good for democracy if Government Ministers can't travel around unmolested.
Imagine the uproar if Jeremy Corbyn was jostled by some drunk young conservatives- MN would be going crazy.

There appears to be a part of the population saying exactly that. I thought he was returning from his constituency.

Really @PeaceBreaksOut ? I could have sworn that he was. I have reported my post to MN.

"Jostled". Diddums.

Wonder what would have happened if Layla Moran or Zarah Sultana had gone for a little performative stroll through Braverman's brownshirts at the cenotaph.

I read somewhere that he had an affair with a friend of Kemi Badenoch, I was more shocked by the fact that she has a friend than the thought of Govey having a fling!. No mention of the person involved and it may just be a piece of groundless gossip

Staged? You mean, the protesters were actually plants who were in on it and were just pretending to be genuine? To make the real protesters look bad?

Really?

If Hamas were to win do you really believe they will stop at wiping out all Jews? Is that statement from them acceptable to their supporters and do you not think they would turn on other groups and sections of society?

Smileycup
He is, as another poster just pointed out, married to someone who works for the DM

They're divorced!!!

They're divorced.

He's a very odd man publicly and I suspect privately

Why would he be in any danger if the protesters were peaceful?

It was still fully light in the pictures I have seen. So must have been c4pm. It takes a long time for 300k protesters to leave London and they use mainline stations.

He shouldn't have been jostled, verbally abused etc but equally he should have known he would be a target and avoided the area. Emotions are high and there are plenty of thugs happy to piggy back on a relatively peaceful March to cause trouble.

He was married to SV. They divorced last year.

Quite possible yes.

This post sums it all up nicely so this thread is pretty much done now.

Hey ex wifey I know we've recently been through a rather unpleasant divorce but I have an idea and I'm sure you won't begrudge me this one last favour. 😂

Sometimes the simplest explanation is true. His ministerial car was blocked due to the route and the tube is the easiest way to get around London. A lot of MPs probably use it for convenience. The Met had reported earlier in the day that protests were going to be stopped inside stations. He probably thought it would be a quicker route home.

I don't care what Gove's politics are in this instance - he should, like all politicians of any party, be able to be in a public space and use transportation without harassment.

On the off chance his only purpose was to drum up headlines they still could have been avoided by protestors not descending on him in the public space.

With two MPs already murdered in recent years it's not something that should be encouraged or condoned regardless of whether you think an MP is an evil Tory or loonie Labour etc.

Choux
It was still fully light in the pictures I have seen. So must have been c4pm.

That's true - the Guardian reported Saturday evening.

It takes a long time for 300k protesters to leave London and they use mainline stations.

Why did you provide extensive details about the route if you were only referring to people leaving London after the march?

@Everythingnotsavedwillbelost73

"What was Michael Gove doing in the middle of Victoria station on a day when every other sensible politician did not want to make the police's job any harder?

"I mean, was he drunk? What was he doing there?"

Nadine Dorries

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/michael-gove-mobbed-victoria-station-dorries-b2445934.html