Election Year or Fear!

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"Do they really think Robinson has any answers? The man?s proven to be a violent crook, drug pusher, and fraudster?and not a very capable one at that!"

Personally no he wont, Farage wont. But the march provided a forum for people to express dissatisfaction with the first 14 months of not living up to election promises. Smash the gangs - yes thats worked well - especially returning their abandoned rubber dinghies to them to reuse (probably an urban myth to be fair)

Same as noone believe that the leadership of pro Palestine marches wont remedy the problem their but its a forum to make yourself heard. Same with your experience at Red Lion Square - did you really think the leadership of Liberation, the Movement for Colonial Freedom would change anything. Im sure not but it was a platform for the voice to be heard

I’ve been on a number of demonstrations in the dim and distant. Some were about student grants, which generally achieved little tbh, other than a cheap day out in London, some were opposing racism, which were the only ones that turned violent when the NF got involved and some were in support of anti apartheid and freeing Nelson Mandela, which I guess were spectacularly successful seeing as he went from political prisoner to President in a relatively short space of time.

I can understand people protesting about the treatment of Palestinians nowadays although it appears to achieve little. I can also understand certain frustrations that people have these days. What I will never be able to understand is people flocking behind the likes of Robinson and Farage thinking that they and their flag hijacking - which yes I do greatly resent - offer any sort of solution.