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

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

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 live in an area where we have Orange Walks every year and they aren't simply on the big day - they can go on for weeks on the run up. They can't be banned apparently

There were two marches in London on Saturday. Counter protests and the FA Cup final policing - assume that's part of the reason why the final bill was so high

Tommy Robinson called for the crowds to get involved in politics by registering to vote and joining a political party.

He then said " Are you ready for the Battle of Britain? 2029 we have an election. We're not asking anyone to go out and fight, but this is the most important moment in our generation."

Is he going to do the same?

Or will he stay in Spain?

He is barred from Reform due to his BNP membership.

I have no idea don't follow him, I was just correcting the pp who obviously has her own agenda and lied about what TR actually said.

Do you think he's going to advise people to vote Labour or SNP? He's previously endorsed Reform candidates.

And what does 'Battle of Britain' mean?

Will he oversee it from Spain?

He's not going to tell people to vote SNP or Plaid with the whole premise of these marches being under the banner of British nationalism is he?

What dog-whistling. Like changing his name to try to appeal to what he clearly sees as the masses.

What do you make of Mr Yaxley-Lennon pp?

For goodness sake that's just awful 😞

Take it off as if it's a strip show. Good family entertainment? Horrible.

We all pay tax - vat on food, clothing, petrol and energy. Very few are exempt from paying council tax; at best it's a 25% discount.

Robinson Co founded the EDL didn't he?

Plaid and SNP totally in thrall to men in dresses. It's not a good place for women to be.

As I said earlier in the thread there are plenty of SNP policies that I don't agree with - pretty sure that there are SNP MPs who didn't agree with certain decisions taken by the party or Scottish Government. I'd rather vote SNP than be aligned to Tommy Robinson

What about Muslim women. How do you think they feel about Tommy and his views?

Your original assessment was correct. "Left wing" implies to me a more lefty stance than "centre-left" and incorporates the far-left within it. Same applies to the right.

It's hard to distinguish the [direction]-wing from the far-[direction] when one considers the "public face" of the far-[direction] (e.g. Reform; Green Party) being toned-down "don't say the quiet part out loud" compared to what the grassroots far-[direction] believe (ZOG, blood libel, deportation of anyone not white; defund the police, open all the borders, close all the prisons).

Horseshoe theory is seeing that if you go far enough to the left and right, they develop a lot in common. Banning speech they don't like, putting enemies in brutal camps, "disappearances", kangaroo courts all figure highly when any authoritarian gets into power. Spotting that both sides want to defund the police, albeit for differing reasons, made me think immediately of the horseshoe theory

All this is separate from, and complementary to, the argument that you would struggle to slip a rolling paper between the centre-left and centre-right at times.

Actually, it's to keep the boards civilised so that posters stay and see the adverts, and to keep the advertisers' cash coming in because no advertiser of anything other than porn wants to be associated with a toxic 4chan-like forum.

The Led by Donkey's video was so uplifting, all that talent, joy and life enhancing music. It wasn't aggressive and confrontational, just a reminder of what people can offer the UK

It was brilliant.

As if trans issues are their main policies 🤣. I see what you're trying to do.

I’m all for peaceful protest. I just wish people would protest in their own towns instead of polluting London with their lousy behaviour, litter and racism.

That's a little bit conspiracy based isn't it? There's nothing to suggest that the Green party, for example is pretending to be centre left while waiting to jump out and surprise everyone if they ever achieve significant electoral success. The Tory party has long shown its hand as hard right - they're not exactly hiding their purge of the one nation lot.

Sometimes you have to take things on face value.

And the good news is that I haven't yet heard from the op's solicitors! Maybe they're still trying to unmask my identity? 🤔👀

I protest in Glasgow. Occasionally Edinburgh

“I’m all for peaceful protest. I just wish people would protest in their own towns instead of polluting London with their lousy behaviour, litter and racism.”

Or they can be allocated a park and walk around marching in circles for all I care. As that is far easier and cheaper to police!

They are circling anyway. Let them circle.

"I am all for peaceful protest"

As long as it's out of sight