Massive protests, with numbers reportedly in the tens of thousands, erupted in London on Saturday as people took to the streets to voice their objection to lingering COVID-19 mandates in the city.
The Evening Standard reported the demonstrators held up signs that read, “Freedom is non-negotiable,” and they voiced anger over the city’s vaccination campaign, which they called coercion. One sign read, “We are the ones you failed to fool!” Another sign read, “Make influenza great again.”
The report said the demonstrators marched on Oxford Street and heckled some diners who were wearing masks. The gathering was illegal but reports indicated the vibe was jovial.
“We stand together for freedom,” Laurence Fox, an actor and mayoral candidate, said, according to the paper. “What a beautiful day, with the best people.”
RT.com reported that one of Fox’s campaign promise if elected is he will do away with all COVID-19 restrictions. Fox slammed media outlets for refusing to cover what some called the “biggest street party London has ever seen.”
The mainstream U.K. media covered recent climate change protests extensively but did not cover the COVID protests.
TRENDPOST: As with Laurence Fox’s run for mayor of London, anti-vax, anti-establishment, anti-tax, and anti-immigration political movements is a megatrend we had forecast since the COVID War was launched in February 2020, which will be heard around the world.
While the U.K. announced that the country’s lockdown will all but wrap up by late June if all goes well with the vaccination effort and infection rate, should there be a COVID variant, politicians will again impose draconian shelter-in-place mandates.
