Thousands Upon Thousands Rally Against Lockdown, Vax Passes in London

Thousands Upon Thousands Rally Against Lockdown, Vax Passes in London

Via Breitbart:

It was by some margin the biggest rally held so far in the UK against the government’s draconian Chinese coronavirus restrictions. While the MSM put a low estimate on the numbers — 10,000, according to Reuters — others claim the turnout was considerably higher.

What’s certain is that, as with previous anti-lockdown marches, the MSM has done its very best to ignore it. In order for Extinction Rebellion to get mass media coverage, all it has to do is persuade a handful of activists to go with hammers (one ludicrously bearing the message ‘Care – act with love’) and chisels to smash a few windows at a corporate HQ and the story is everywhere, from the BBC to theSun.

But when perhaps 50,000 or more anti-vaccine-passport protestors bring central London to a standstill as they march down the length of Oxford Street, the event either goes unreported or is sneerily dismissed as a bunch of weirdo conspiracy theorists flouting the government’s supposedly sensible and proportionate mask-and-social-distancing regulations.

Here, for example, is the BBC’s ‘specialist reporter covering disinformation and social media’ pouring scorn on the event:

Anti-lockdown protesters – predominantly organised in Telegram channels promoting conspiracy theories about vaccines and pandemic are marching in Central London.

There are placards claiming covid is a hoax, “the experimental vaccine kills” and the QAnon “Save Our Children”. pic.twitter.com/6anw6iRhkx

— Marianna Spring (@mariannaspring) April 24, 2021

In truth, the vast majority of people at the event weren’t activists but ordinary folk of all ages, races, and classes who’d had enough after a year of government lockdowns, and who felt especially concerned by proposals to bring in vaccine passports. They considered these to be illiberal, discriminatory — and the precursor to a Chinese-style social credit system.

Among the crowds, I was especially pleased to meet one of Britain’s most distinguished movie stars from the ’60s — James Fox — who had come along to support his son Laurence, who is running to be Mayor of London on an anti-lockdown freedom ticket:

50,000 + wonderful people on the march today and my 82 year old dad is the most wonderful of them all. ❤️ London. pic.twitter.com/MXX3ShkZXd

— Laurence Fox 🥛 (@LozzaFox) April 24, 2021

Fox was among many opposed to vaccine passports, which he believes are not only discriminatory but un-Christian:

• Suppose a church pastor is having a congregation come to him and somebody at the door says: ‘We’re only going to allow those people in who’ve been vaccinated.’ Would Jesus do that? No he wouldn’t. He accepted everybody.