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

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/05/2026 19:40

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.

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Jasminealive · 16/05/2026 22:59

Lonelycrab · 16/05/2026 22:54

What I saw on the BBC was a nation

It was a small minority certainly not a nation. 70k in a capital of 7m is what, 1% and that’s before you look at many that came from outside the capital to go to this march.

Please don’t think these, mostly men, many drunk, represent our nation. They don’t.

There’s 11m in the capital so even less

Lidianna · 16/05/2026 23:00

cestlavielife · 16/05/2026 22:53

They simply want British born people putting FIRST.

How many generations qualify?
Just born here? Eg parents came on student visa had a child?
Parents born uk ?
grandparents?

If one set grandparents born uk but other set not what does that mean for "british born"?

I watched a video on Instagram a week or so ago and it was comparing the Chinese influx into British society back in the 1960s and 1970s. No one took the the streets, they were and were always welcomed. They work hard and pay their taxes. I think that has been the difference possibly an influx of other nations which are seeing the UK as a free for all.

Jasminealive · 16/05/2026 23:01

The march isn’t even really headline news. It’s that insignificant. Thank fuck. The tide is over.

Now let’s keep getting on with real progress for the UK

AnythingButThis · 16/05/2026 23:01

Drunk blokes pissing all over the place.
I was in central London today (coincidentally)
Note they arrested a couple in Euston for running someone over in a Birmingham earlier this week.

Saw an article too:
There are flyers lying on the road where people are marching for the Unite the Kingdom rally that say they want to secure “a future for white people”.
The flyer says: “In a country saturated with degenerates, grifters and imported political enemies … We are a brotherhood of White Europeans who share the same values.”
The text says anyone can join their “vanguard” and they can remain anonymous.

fascists and racists

DogAnxiety · 16/05/2026 23:04

@Jasminealive , that’s the thing with your racist-aligned parties, they can never get it over the finish line and their long run support always flags. Because most people aren’t inherently racist. I think we’ve seen the peak and we are now on the downward trajectory for this flag shagging rubbish.

LilyCanna · 16/05/2026 23:06

Lidianna · 16/05/2026 23:00

I watched a video on Instagram a week or so ago and it was comparing the Chinese influx into British society back in the 1960s and 1970s. No one took the the streets, they were and were always welcomed. They work hard and pay their taxes. I think that has been the difference possibly an influx of other nations which are seeing the UK as a free for all.

So racism is only a recent thing? Tell that to the Windrush generation.

Grammarnut · 16/05/2026 23:07

SidekickSylvia · 16/05/2026 20:22

Starmer has made such a huge mistake in calling ordinary British people, of all backgrounds, 'far right thugs'. It's astonishing that the person elected to represent them gives the appearance of thinking of the British public with contempt. If people feel unheard, it's his job to ask why and then listen, not dismiss and insult them. I hope the march remains peaceful.

Reminds me of Clinton's deplorables gaff.

Gingerbreadtree · 16/05/2026 23:08

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 16/05/2026 20:28

I got caught up in the middle of it this afternoon, I've never seen a bigger bunch of drunken bell ends.

Drunken bell ends and coked up idiots.

Grammarnut · 16/05/2026 23:08

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/05/2026 20:27

I’m sure there is a right-wing faction just as there is an extremist element within the pro-Palestine marches, but he is trying to paint a broad brush across all the people who attended.

Well, people who go about shouting 'from the river to the sea' and 'globalise the intifada' could certainly be described as extremists since they are shouting for the annihilation of a legitimate state and to carry terrorism to Jews everywhere e.g. Bondi Beach and Golders Green. And they have been marching for months - lots of arrests, too.

TonyGallaSoInLoveNsoul · 16/05/2026 23:09

AnythingButThis · 16/05/2026 23:01

Drunk blokes pissing all over the place.
I was in central London today (coincidentally)
Note they arrested a couple in Euston for running someone over in a Birmingham earlier this week.

Saw an article too:
There are flyers lying on the road where people are marching for the Unite the Kingdom rally that say they want to secure “a future for white people”.
The flyer says: “In a country saturated with degenerates, grifters and imported political enemies … We are a brotherhood of White Europeans who share the same values.”
The text says anyone can join their “vanguard” and they can remain anonymous.

fascists and racists

That flyer is the rhetoric I recognise from the NF,BNP,C18 years ago still pushing the same narrative.
As a pp said the bubbles burst well here's hoping I'm sick of division and hatred in our country and it comes from all quarters

DogAnxiety · 16/05/2026 23:21

Ah, @Lidianna , the immigrant hierarchy trope rides again. Chinese do good in school and are industrious, therefore good ;) Those of a darker hue and a bit more forrin seeming … not so much. Old as the hills.

TurnAngerIntoHope · 16/05/2026 23:23

ProudCat · 16/05/2026 21:23

Yes, very peaceful. I mean they arrested one guy on his way to the march who they suspected of a hit and run / GBH earlier in the week, and his mate who was intent on attacking police officers.

Lovely crowd. Makes me proud to be British.

Was going to say this, Ryan from Birmingham based flag shagging organisation Raise the Colours, who seem like a delightful bunch of this footage from Thursday night is anything to go by.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FpvjtYCrS/?mibextid=wwXIfr

There were a lot of protesters surrounding the police and swearing at them during his arrest. Very peaceful and family oriented indeed.

Anything involving Tommy Robinson/Steven Yaxley-Lennon is anything but peaceful and family oriented, I don’t know why people give this idiot the time of day. He’s hardly and upstanding member of society himself.

hotsoap · 16/05/2026 23:25

The image with : stop white replacement , was put down as sensitive content....
sigh

LadyWentworth · 16/05/2026 23:26

hattie43 · 16/05/2026 21:44

Starmers a complete tool . How on earth is insulting large swathes of the population ever a good thing , what an idiot .

This is not a large part of the population to be proud of. They can moan and whinge about being prejudiced against as much as they like but they have no idea what real disadvantage is. I say this as a white working class person. I do not understand the mentality of these people. Genuinely, who do they think is being put before them if they need to be put first? They’d be better railing against the tax dodging super rich and over privileged

TemperanceWest · 16/05/2026 23:28

hotsoap · 16/05/2026 23:25

The image with : stop white replacement , was put down as sensitive content....
sigh

If you mean my post, I did that because it is vile and anti-semitic.

user86753278 · 16/05/2026 23:28

KiIIingMeDeftly · 16/05/2026 22:24

Well quite.

I am British but I'm also an immigrant. I have worked and paid taxes and NI for 25 years and counting. I daresay I've contributed more to this country and its economy than the flag-draped drunks I saw today. Why should I come second to them just because I wasn't born here?

Yes, same. I'd venture a guess that we pay more in tax in a year than most of these people pay in their entire lives. I'm generally happy to pay into supporting the country we live in, but I wish I could specify that not a penny should go to propping up those who think they're better than others just because, through the luck of the draw, they were born here.

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hotsoap · 16/05/2026 23:29

TemperanceWest · 16/05/2026 23:28

If you mean my post, I did that because it is vile and anti-semitic.

Jewish people are white also

Buzzlightfear · 16/05/2026 23:30

Lonelycrab · 16/05/2026 21:37

So what were the numbers?

60 or 70 thousand at best? Certainly not more than 100k.

Out of a population of c 25 MILLION !!(at a guess) in the south of England many of who could quite easily attended.

Unite the kingdom? More like a small minority who think they own it. They don’t represent any of the people I know and yes before you ask we’re all white British and this lot we want nothing to do with. Unite that. You don’t represent us

Tiny fraction of the country. But thanks for not smashing things up or attacking the police quite as bad as last time, nice one.

Couldn't agree more with this. I literally do not know any of these people. They do not represent me. I am British. And normal (I think)

LesMize · 16/05/2026 23:34

Meadowfinch · 16/05/2026 21:02

Thankfully no violence. Good news for everybody.

Good to set the bar nice and high.

Family day out, my eye.

TemperanceWest · 16/05/2026 23:34

hotsoap · 16/05/2026 23:29

Jewish people are white also

I suggest you look at the image again. That banner is anti-semitic. It is a clear reference to the anti-semitic great replacement theory.

https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/great-replacement

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The Restore Britain March seems to have gone pretty well today from what I can glean online.
EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/05/2026 23:35

Jasminealive · 16/05/2026 23:01

The march isn’t even really headline news. It’s that insignificant. Thank fuck. The tide is over.

Now let’s keep getting on with real progress for the UK

It isn’t headline news because not much happened 🙌

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Oncemorewithsome · 16/05/2026 23:41

EmeraldRoulette · 16/05/2026 21:01

@Lonelycrab what do you mean "as bad as last time"?

Last time the police said there were approximately 100,000 in attendance

23 arrests
One of whom was a counterprotester

Apparently, pro Palestine protests average about 400 arrests at the moment

Notting Hill carnival was about 500 last time and that passed off peacefully, in official terms.

I know posters are getting Reform and Restore in a muddle and the protest has nothing to do with them anyway!

To be fair, arrests at pro Palestinian marches might have been mainly for holding up fairly innocuous signs that inexplicably got deemed as “terrorist”.

Grammarnut · 16/05/2026 23:42

Jasminealive · 16/05/2026 22:47

I am on the periphery of an organisation that helped with crowd control today. There were far far fewer than expected. Seems like the racist tide is over. The Tommy/ Farage bubble has burst.

also, hard agree that there were 20 men to every woman there, if that

I saw a great many flags, to whit union flags, saltires, an Irish tricolour, the dragon of Wales, some English flags and the Iranian lion flag. Quite a mixed bag of people who are not very happy with what is happening. Hard to call them all right wing and racists - were the Iranians racist? (Well, they might be, I haven't met those on the march, but in general?) Quite a jump to assume all these people are right wing racists rather than people worried that the UK is not condemning the murderers of Tehran, is allowing unpapered young men into the country, that the government calls those asking for an inquiry into the grooming gangs racists (and no sign this inquiry is happening yet), and has ignored those upset that their towns and neighbourhoods have changed out of recognition and no-one voted to allow this and called them racists as well.

We have had too much immigration in the last 15 years so that people have not been able to assimilate into the host culture (which is the only way that immigration works), our infrastructure (already hollowed out by neo-liberal private is best policies) is creaking to the point of breaking, while wages stagnate and those at the bottom see the jobs they can do having wages undercut to the advantage of employers but not to the benefit of the rest of us.
No wonder people march under their flags. I like the union flag - it's mine - and I am entirely tired of being told that to like it or like my country and its history (neither better nor worse than any other history) makes me a racist (and me with two dual-heritage DC, too).
Starmer's managerial technocracy relies on process and 'managing' things, but this is not how you run a country you love to the advantage and advancement of its people.

hotsoap · 16/05/2026 23:43

TemperanceWest · 16/05/2026 23:34

I suggest you look at the image again. That banner is anti-semitic. It is a clear reference to the anti-semitic great replacement theory.

https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/great-replacement

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saw it...LOL, what shambles...I might be very sleepy and reading half the slogan. There is not a zionist occupation of Britain and as someone from an ex Soviet place, I have seen many white Jews .....this country is gone bonkers

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