{"id":237257,"date":"2021-06-27T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237257"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:00:27","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-anti-lockdown-protesters-march-on-london-in-biggest-demo-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=237257","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters march on London in biggest demo yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Marchers with signs demanding &#8216;arrest Matt Hancock&#8217; after he was caught cheating while preaching Covid rules to the rest of UK<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters marched through central London today calling for &#8216;freedom&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Crowds demanded an end to all Covid-19 lockdown regulations after Freedom Day was delayed from June 21<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>People held signs reading &#8216;freedom is not for trade&#8217; and &#8216;mask wearing zombies wake up or comply and die&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Protesters held placards calling for police to &#8216;arrest Matt Hancock&#8217; after he was caught breaching Covid rules<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Secretary was accused of hypocrisy over a video showing him kissing married aide Gina Coladangelo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Crowds threw tennis balls at Parliament before descending on Downing Street, where they started booing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kate Dennett \u2013 Mail Online June 26, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters marched through\u00a0central\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\"><strong>London<\/strong><\/a> today demanding the &#8216;arrest&#8217; of Matt Hancock after he was caught breaching Covid rules by kissing his married aide while preaching the restrictions to the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-lockdown protesters were seen marching along through central London before descending on Downing Street on Saturday as they called for &#8216;freedom&#8217; and the end to all Covid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus-lockdowns\/index.html\"><strong>lockdown<\/strong><\/a> regulations after Freedom Day was delayed from June 21.<\/p>\n<p>As well as demanding the end to lockdown, protesters brandished placards that demanded police &#8216;arrest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/matt-hancock\/index.html\"><strong>Matt Hancock<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; after he was caught breaching Covid safety regulations by kissing his married aide &#8211; despite asking the rest of the country to follow the strict restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The health secretary, 42, has been accused of\u00a0hypocrisy over images and a subsequent video clip showing him kissing Gina Coladangelo at the Department for Health, despite\u00a0championing draconian restrictions on ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The crowds lobbed hundreds of tennis balls with &#8216;not very nice&#8217; messages written on them towards the Houses of Parliament before gathering on Downing Street, where they started chanting &#8216;shame on you&#8217; and pointing towards Number 10, followed by prolonged booing.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of protesters had earlier marched through Oxford Street, Regent Street, Hyde Park and Northumberland Avenue as they held placards reading &#8216;the Boris variant&#8217;, &#8216;no to Covid vaccine&#8217; and &#8216;no to Covid passport&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Downing Street now &#8211; people shouting \u201cArrest Matt Hancock!!!!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rj43yEA1tR\">pic.twitter.com\/Rj43yEA1tR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; banthebbc (@banthebbc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/banthebbc\/status\/1408795130941874179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators then packed the streets outside Downing Street, where flares were set off and tennis balls were thrown towards Number 10, while loud chanting, whistling and music continued.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the demonstration began dispersing at around 4pm, although many dedicated marchers still remain outside Downing Street and in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n<p>Reclaim party leader Laurence Fox was among the tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protestors who attended Saturday&#8217;s protest and was seen shouting into a speaker as he stood on a barrier outside Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9728185\/Tens-thousands-anti-lockdown-protesters-descend-London-demand-Matt-Hancocks-arrest.html\">Continues&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters gather at the end of Downing Street chanting: \u201cArrest Matt Hancock \u2026 Arrest Matt Hancock\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":237259,"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-237257","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\/237257","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=237257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237258,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237257\/revisions\/237258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}