{"id":236397,"date":"2021-06-16T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T07:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236397"},"modified":"2021-06-17T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T06:05:40","slug":"anti-lockdown-protesters-march-on-downing-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236397","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Lockdown Protesters March on Downing Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Injured police officer is dragged away outside Downing Street amid chaotic scenes as maskless anti-lockdown protesters including Laurence Fox and Piers Corbyn march on Downing Street demanding end of restrictions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Activists held banners calling for masks and testing to be scrapped as Boris Johnson was set to face MPs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Social media messages showed protest had been specifically planned to coincide with the announcement\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It comes as furious Tory MPs lashed out at PM as he looked set to delay a total reopening of the economy\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rory Tingle \u2013 Daily Mail June 14, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A police officer was dragged away amid chaotic scenes outside Downing Street yesterday as\u00a0Laurence Fox and Piers Corbyn joined maskless anti-lockdown protesters demanding an end to all Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fox, 43, was shown speaking with police while holding a copy of an anti-lockdown magazine, while Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s 74-year-old brother held an anti-vax banner alongside protesters calling climate change a &#8216;con&#8217; and complaining about the &#8216;New World Order&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Other activists held signs calling for masks and testing to be scrapped, with others said &#8216;99.7% of people do not die&#8217; and &#8216;the media is a virus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Social media messages showed the demonstration had been specifically planned to coincide with Mr Johnson&#8217;s announcement to the Commons about the fate of the opening plans for June 21.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the demonstration shows a female police officer being hauled away by her colleagues, as protesters scream &#8216;traitors&#8217; and &#8216;it&#8217;s all right when it happens to one of us, isn&#8217;t it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson yesterday urged Britons to be patient as he announces that the relaxation of Covid restrictions will be pushed back until July 19 because of the rampaging Indian variant, to allow more people to receive their second vaccine dose.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister faces a ferocious backlash from all wings of the Tory Party over his decision to delay Freedom Day last night \u2013 as his own MPs warned of curbs lasting through winter and beyond.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_236400\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peirs-Corbyn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236400\" class=\"wp-image-236400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peirs-Corbyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peirs-Corbyn.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peirs-Corbyn-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-236400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piers Corbyn (right) was among the protesters. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Horrified backbenchers expressed concerns about a &#8216; lockdown without end&#8217; and said they were losing confidence in the prospect of coronavirus restrictions being lifted for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Prime Minister&#8217;s announcement of a four-week delay to removing curbs in England, they accused him of &#8216;panicking&#8217; and said that they feared a return to even tighter curbs in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>One Cabinet minister said last night the frontbench team were &#8216;resigned&#8217; to the fact there would be a delay, but added: &#8216;We must now deliver on vaccinations.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>No ministers stuck their head above the parapet to publicly criticise the lockdown extension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9684251\/Maskless-anti-lockdown-protesters-march-Downing-Street.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs express concern about a &#8216; lockdown without end&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":236399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236402,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397\/revisions\/236402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}