Sorry - long post but for people saying that the march was peaceful, family-oriented, ordinary working class people proud of their country etc… here are all the experiences from posters (or family members) who were actually in Central London yesterday or encountered the marchers on public transport.
“My friend and I were in London yesterday and we were making our way through Charing Cross, she is of Sri Lankan descent and a doctor.
The thugs we walked past were emboldened enough to shout paki at her multiple times and spit on her - this was at 11am in the morning.”
“Yesterday was not a nice family day out, it was, as he put it "wall to wall cunts". It was not a fun day for working class Londoners (of any colour) just trying to do their jobs.
He is a football fan, and has been since the 80s and remembers football violence well. In his view these are pissed up football hooligans.”
“It was all white people, mostly men and a few women. I would say 80% men and 20% women. I did see a couple of families with kids in parliament square. It was a rough crowd, lots of drinking, yelling and smoke bombs, defo not the place for small children.”
“I walked along a side street to avoid the march itself and there were big numbers of pissed men and women openly urinating against doors of businesses, homes and back doors of restaurants etc. around Embankment. Such animals - there are plenty of public loos available. Tourists were agog at the sight of men with their cocks out and women squatting with their pants around their ankles.”
“Totally drunk men swearing and swaggering around the place. Dropping litter and cans everywhere. Didn't see many women, just drunk horrible men.”
“I had to walk through the gathering crowds on my way to a meeting this morning, and loads of them were already drunk at 8.30am. They were noisy and aggressive yobs. When I walked home, the streets looked like a council tip with huge piles of beer cans, food wrappers and discarded waste.”
“There were hordes of them getting on the same train as her. Telling a woman who politely asked them to mind their language as there were children present to ‘ Go and fuck yourself, bitch.’ Then screaming at a black woman to ‘Get the fuck out of our country.’
Dd felt very intimidated. Some of them insisted on speaking to her and felt they had the right to ask her where she was going.
They chanting and swearing whilst shouting support for Tommy Robinson.”
“There was a group of middle aged white men with Union Jack hats and t shirts in our carriage, talking about muslims not eating full English breakfasts, haribos and general degrading opinions on muslim women.”
“I had to be in London and on the tube today and it was just a bunch of people delighted about being able to openly express their racism. Didn’t look or sound like having too many brain cells.”
“I've never seen a bigger bunch of drunken bell ends.”