The Restore Britain March seems to have gone pretty well today from what I can glean online.

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It could be a faulty algorithm, but the trouble the PM seemed to think would happen doesn’t seem to have materialised. I’ve seen clips from the march where a diverse mix of people have marched, not just football hooligan types.

I started a thread saying I was glad the march was peaceful. A load of furious people then came onto the thread and called me a bot, a shill and a fascist. We then started talking about politics.

So they don't fit your definition of Christianity, fine. I'm cool with that. You'll note I haven't mentioned Christian nationalism, but rather the idea that those on the march weren't claiming to be Christians.

However - on the march yesterday you had people wearing Bible verses, chanting Christ is King, carrying Christian banners, being handed crosses and otherwise using plenty of Christian iconography, on a march led by a man who claims to have recently converted to Christianity.

Rightly or wrongly, these are people trying to align themselves with Christianity and claiming to be Christian.

Nobody called you a bot. I called you a shill for obvious reasons. I'm not furious right now, in fact I'm just having a cup of tea.

Yup.

The right complain about no " Bobbies on the beat" all the time. Then when they get loads of Bobbies on the beat, they call it overkill.

Please help make it make sense.

We are surely in the Trumpian era. Where an alternate logic works.

It's a sort of anti logic logic.

Rupert Lowe often mentions the fact we are a Christian nation

They literally did lol. Hence their posts being deleted.

Reform stood a paper candidate here more or less at the last elections. No visible presence at all in the area prior to the election. No door to door campaigning and almost 6000 people voted for them.

It makes as much sense as TR saying he would end foreign funding in this country.

Oh dear, so hard to prove.

Ok. I've been watching the thread and I haven't seen anyone call you, personally, a bot or a fascist. Already held my hands up to calling you a shill. Also not seen furious people, including myself.

A little hyperbole maybe?

Actually do you even know what a ‘shill’ is. You’ve just dropped in casually that you ‘obviously’ thought I was a shill. There is literally nothing about my posts that look like someone is paying me and the fact that you’ve assumed it means you must be hanging out in some very extreme areas of the internet.

Yes thank you!

So I’m now a liar am I ? Another accusation. You are a peach.

What about my posts make you think I am a shill?

They are.

• On the Political Compass, both are authoritarian.
• Both disrespect the rule of law when it suits them.
• Both are intolerant of dissent.
• Both are all too willing to abuse bystanders when on demos.
• Both are now wanting to defund the police, albeit for differing reasons.
• Both don't actually care about women's rights, they just use us as a figleaf for their real agenda.

Hang on, I thought "no one" didn't literally mean "no one" any more? 😉

They're both packed with antisemites...

While he yells MUSK MUSK MUSK.

And of course, complains that foreign far right speakers are banned.... from attending an anti foreigner demonstration.

Defo a Spock raised eyebrow thing.

This is that fantasy stuff again isn’t it? Words have no meaning. Things that never happened.

Still waiting to hear all this evidence about who I’m in the pay of? Not those bloody Russians again.

I was just having a tiny joke after our exchange earlier on the meaning of those words.... Apologies for the derail!

Exactly. Poor male behaviour is a "men" problem, not a race problem.

Thank you, how kind! ☺️

It's not my definition - its the definition of Christianity.

You said it was 'mental gymnastics' for me to claim these people aren't claiming to be Christian when there's no evidence that they are.

I'm not posting here again till after Pentecost, but I fail to see why Arthur, Alfred, Simon de Montfort, Boudicca and her daughters, Magna Carta etc are funny. They are not funny and they are the culture of this country (bet you don't know what the flowers of the forest mean, and had I mentioned Llewellyn the Great you wouldn't have a clue) and they are what people are marching for. They are marching against those who say not only that these things don't matter but that they are WRONG and EVIL and on the wrong side of history. The UK stopped the slave trade, its empire fought the Nazis and defeated them. It's not shameful to know and celebrate these things and other countries don't go round saying constantly oh, we have a dreadful history (even when they do), only the British.