Thread by @James_Townsend9

#londonprotest 🧵👇🏻

For those claiming Saturday was some kind of “hijacking” by “controlled opposition” I suggest you watch this 20 min on camera debrief by one of the main organisers.

I want to address some of the points I’ve read in the hours since.

https://twitter.com/saveourrightsuk/status/1399080793851367426?s=21

Claim 1: “It was hijacked,” one v well known account said.

This is a demonstrable lie. An event poster before the march clearly states that: “from now on our marches will be taking things up a notch & sending a message. We will no longer be scenically walking through Ldn.”

“But instead going on slightly longer routes through community areas to spread the message of awareness.”

So this was very much planned, whether you agree with it or not. For anyone who walked the route, you will have seen dozens of people watching and filming from...

...balconies/streets. So did it raise awareness (the stated aim beforehand)? Unquestionably. It also got covered by the MSM after the complete media blackout in April. The Sunday Express ran a fairly decent piece and the Guardian said “hundreds of thousands”. That is progress.

Claim 2: “The route made no sense.”

That is an opinion, and one anyone is entitled to. However, let’s be clear, there was a sound rationale for doing this. The rationale is best described by asking a very simple question: who is more likely to attend the march in June?

A tourist who saw us shouting obscenities in Whitehall? Or a single mum in Shepherd’s Bush who saw the march & was inspired to research what it was? These people only watch the MSM so won’t even know we exist.

Hundreds of thousands attended in April & it was met by MSM silence.

Our numbers are growing each time but the reality is we need them to be far bigger. Marching through the same tourist hotspots and political institutions while politicians are not even there is pointless. We took our message to communities where we can cut through = sound logic.

Claim 3: “It was too long.”

The organisers admit it was too long, for anyone who cares to actually listen to them. They had “two fit males” walk the route beforehand and, on reflection, they admit this was a mistake. It should have been more representative of the demographic.

I know none of the organisers and have only been to two marches and yet, I can only imagine how difficult it is to organise a rally of this scale. It is inevitable that learning points will be made each time. What would raise greater questions for me would be if it was faultless.

Claim 4: “The protests need to be more regular, on a weekday. These event organisers are blocking that.”

This is another demonstrable lie.

Louise says: “there’s going to be others (protests) between now and then. I think some people are planning to go out on 21 June...”

“...which is great because we do need to do more weekday stuff. But we’re going to be looking at planning that, and looking at what we’re doing.”

So these claims around them trying to deliberately sabotage things doesn’t really seem to stack up.

Was Saturday perfect? No.

Do the organisers want to learn? Apparently so.
Was there logic behind what they did? Absolutely.
And did they communicate as much as they could beforehand? Yes.

Unity is the only way we win this, so it has been v disappointing reading some of the unfounded allegations/lies.

If you have a big following (frankly, any sized following) then you have a responsibility to put out coherent arguments & not link a group to “controlled opposition” just ‘cos you didn’t like or understand the clear rationale behind it.

For more context, another organiser...

I’m aware I’ll probably get pelters for this but frankly I don’t care. Unity, love, & creativity is how we win this. And unfortunately I’ve seen it all too often in the past that when groups reach a certain size, fractions begin.

This is *exactly* what the globalists want.

ENDS