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

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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.

I agree.

This. The so called peaceful demonstrations are rarely completely peaceful.

I use Victoria station frequently, due to its closeness to Parliament, it is not unusual to see politicians there.

The Met have issued photos of people they want to speak to on the pro-Palestinian march due to the anti semantic, hate filled signs that they were carrying and that’s without taking into account those who attacked the police with fireworks in the evening and the dreadful behaviour outside a synagogue. You are fooling yourself if you genuinely believe that the pro-Palestinian supporters are wholly made up of “good” people. There are thugs on both “sides”.

I attended a march yesterday in the north. It was a great mix of different ethnicities, age and religion and yes, it was peaceful and with a great number of placards. None of them calling for the deaths of Jewish people or being pro Nazi. My family suffered during German occupation. I was brought up to believe that never again was meant for the whole of the human race.
Do you want me to send you the cuddly photos I took?

@LizzieBananas actually they are divorced

_would like to kerp Mumsnet a politics free site

Why @Patsy51 ? It’s a great place for debating current affairs - I learn loads on here

Nice Mail headline there - not exactly going in on the EDL side of things there are they.

Very clever move! I think given how many people there seems to have been, it was largely peaceful. Half a dozen people being hunted out of hundreds of thousands isn't a large number. Also I don't think shouting shame on you is particularly vile. Our mps should have shame on them for many things including the state of our public health system. It was a ridiculous idea for MG to walk through Waterloo. It's like Beyoncé choosing to take public transport to/from her hotel just before a concert then complaining her fans mobbed her. Or a football fall sitting in the opposite stand then complaining they've been given grief.

i thought this was called Mumsnet and was brought into being to support mums (and dads of course)with all the issues they faced being parents. I am now a grandma and still use the site.If you want political debates there are numerous sites, far too many to list. I use Quora.

Oh I completely agree that politicians shouldn’t be harassed or abused. Everyone should be able to walk through a tube station without harassment. You may be right and it may just be that this was his only route home. He is not renowned for having bags of integrity and forgive me if I’ve lost all faith in this Government doing anything that isn’t self serving. However…

It is absolutely true that the DM is massively biased and chose to ignore the more obvious headline news, regardless of whether it was a set up or not.

In these very sensitive times ( I haven’t used the term Woke because I’m not sure what it means), should Mumsnet be renamed and if so what should it be called? I’m more than happy to keep things as they are.

Surely this isn't victim blaming as much as it is a sow the wind, reap the whirlwind situation. Him and his ilk have spent years whipping up a frenzy of hatred as much as they can. Pitting poor people against each other. Hating teachers, HCPs, Europeans, boat people, anyone they can think to hate anyone they can think, except the wankers in charge. Hate and polarisation are their tools, divide and conquer.

And then, yes, anyone should be able to walk through Victoria Station fine. But if people are polarised and full of hate, MG is the last person to be able to flutter his eyelashes and ask why. He knows why, he caused it.

Lizzie bananas they got divorced a while ago. Apparently he was returning from a political function and couldn't get through because the roads were closed. So decided to walk instead 😳😳

If I could attach the sound of a round of applause to your post I would. You are bang on the money here. I don’t think he should have been ‘jostled’ but you are so right.

Yep can't stand the man but that doesn't mean he should have trouble getting a train

Even if you go down the conspiracy theory of him going there on purpose. It doesn't detract from the way people behaved. Everyone should be able to go about their business in the UK without having to avoid certain train stations etc

Also I thought them being at the train station wasn't an official protest or something notified in advance. So it is very likely he was just getting a train somewhere

Totally vile man but we can't pick and choose who gets hassled walking about in general public. Nobody should be getting hassled like that, even him.

Really?

There is an approved list of issues patients can discuss? Politics not being one of them?

i thought this was called Mumsnet and was brought into being to support mums (and dads of course)with all the issues they faced being parents. I am now a grandma and still use the site.If you want political debates there are numerous sites, far too many to list. I use Quora

There's a parenting sub-section if you want to stick to that. Or perhaps Gransnet?

@Patsy51 I’ve been on this site for 15 years and it’s always had politics. Parents are allowed to discuss things other than parenting you know. We are people too.

He has every right to be there. I encountered some of the “pro-Palestine” protesters yesterday & they certainly weren’t being peaceful. In fact, what they were chanting was vile.

Yes people should be left to do normal stuff like walk through a train station

Unhinged people will hate public figures to the extent they physically or verbally attack them, or worse as we’ve seen, but people need to rein in their threatening impulse

What are you on about?

The social contract is well and truly broken. This is one of the results - more anger, more violence, less giving of any shits.

Beheaded

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