Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Did you read my posts or simply take from them what you wanted to read?

I didn't go on march but spoke to people who did. MA I think but it may have been you asked what issues were being protested about. AF speculated several and I asked the guys who went what they felt was the vox pop. Hence I added "wokeness and Khan" in response.

I don't know why Khan was identified as a reason to protest. I was simply relaying what I was told. I know little of him myself apart from instigating ULEZ that many oppose but actually I favour.

At this point various people weighed in with Khan must be good/popular as he's been reelected. An utterly fallacious argument unless you accept the Tories and Trump are good/popular as they too have been reelected.

I've never expressed a view on whether I think Khan has been good for London. I have no idea. I merely answered a question by asking people who marched what their issues were and reported back.

I didn't enter a great conversation as to what they felt his failings were. So I'm ****ed of I'm going to research the matter further to satisfy Swale who would in any event simply dismiss other people's (the marchers) opinions anyway as that is his style.

Next time I won't bother to try to make enquiries
Ok, but you didn't actually make it clear that you were expressing marchers opinions! You stated Khan had failed as mayor.

As for dismissing other people's opinions, well if they are based on falsehoods, then yes of course I do, as would any other reasonable person.

It is a simple fact though, that whatever those who went on the march thought they were protesting about, it was organised by a many times convicted, right wing agitator and funded by an opaque billionaire who is not resident in the UK and culminated in a speakers who were as I pointed out far right agitators from other countries who were spouting far right propaganda.

Now, if one goes on a march which is undeniably held on the above premise, then you are by association if nothing else, aligning oneself with the stated aims of the organisers. I mean come on, whatever they might think or say, it was absolutely clear who organised the march and what it was about. However, I guess some people either don't care or perhaps dim enough to think their presence isn't showing support for some very dangerous and unsavoury characters.

Rather like those charming "pink ladies" who claim that they are not racist but merely concerned about the supposed threat that asylum seekers or immigrants posed to women and children. This despite the FACT, that there is no evidence that such persons are more likely to commit such offences than a white person.