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A million people on the streets of London doesn't count as a significant anti-Brexit protest? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/23/one-million-march

• JoeSmithson 7y ago
  GP's comment is nonsense in a number of ways, most notably that British police are generally regarded among the least oppressive in the world.
  • pjc50 7y ago
    Apart from the RUC, the kettling, Orgreave, Hillsborough, the Macpherson report, "sus" laws, and the embedding of undercover officers in environmentalist groups some of whom had children with the people they were surveilling? The fact that UK police are not routinely armed helps a lot, but they're still capable of some highly selective treatment of people they don't like.
• pjc50 7y ago
  Has it changed anything? Like the Iraq war protests, the government is capable of ignoring huge protests. Perhaps I should have said "effective" rather than "significant".
  • dTal 7y ago
    Do you think that protest must be violent to be effective?