{"id":327087,"date":"2026-05-17T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327087"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:21:32","slug":"few-arrests-at-unite-the-kingdom-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327087","title":{"rendered":"Few Arrests at Unite the Kingdom Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toby Young \u2013 The Daily Sceptic May 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

As of 4.30pm today, only 31 people had been arrested at Tommy Robinson\u2019s Unite the Kingdom rally and the rival, pro-Palestinian Nakba Day rally \u2013 both of which took place in Central London this afternoon. But the Met hasn\u2019t yet broken down how many were arrested at each protest, promising to do that later. The police appear to have done a good job at keeping the two rival groups apart, with my social media feed indicating the pro-Pals were much more intent on provoking violent clashes. At one point, a group of far-Left protestors started chanting<\/a> \u201cShoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk\u201d about Robinson.<\/p>\n

Judging from reports in the mainstream media, the turnout at the UTK rally was lower than it was last year \u2013 an estimated 50,000, according to the Telegraph<\/a><\/em>, as opposed to last year\u2019s 100,000, but this figure will undoubtedly be contested by the rally\u2019s organisers. The organisers of the Nakba Day demo claimed 250,000 attendees, a number I think we can comfortably divide by 10. The Times<\/em> estimates<\/a> the number participating in both rallies at 80,000.<\/p>\n

Attempts by Labour politicians and others to depict the UTK rally as \u2018racist\u2019 (David Lammy said that the organisers of the march \u201care spreading hatred and division\u201d) were belied by the number of black and brown participants. GB News\u2019s Nana Akua went to the rally<\/a> to look for \u2018far Right\u2019 protestors and struggled to find any. In fact, the people on the other protest were more guilty of \u201cspreading hatred and division\u201d, with the usual antisemitic bile being spewed on every street corner, often by protestors displaying the Hamas red triangle. Lots of people in my social media feed have been complaining about the failure of the Met to arrest anyone for chanting \u2018Globalise the Intifada\u2019 , \u2018Intifada revolution\u2019 and similar incitements to violence against Jews, although I suspect several of the 31 arrests will have been of pro-Palestinian protestors for stirring up racial hatred.<\/p>\n

Robinson addressed the UTK attendees from a platform in Trafalgar Square sounding quite ecumenical.<\/p>\n

Are you ready for the battle of Britain? In 2029, we have an election. We\u2019re not asking anyone to go out and fight, but this is the most important moment in our generation.<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t send a message in our next election, if you don\u2019t register to vote, if you don\u2019t get involved, if you don\u2019t become activists, we are going to lose our country forever.<\/p>\n

We have to get political, we have to get involved. I\u2019m not going to tell you which political party you need to join. We\u2019re a cultural movement.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to tell you that you have to join a political party. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Reform, if it\u2019s Advance, or it\u2019s Restore, or it\u2019s the Conservative Party. We have to locally get involved in politics.<\/p>\n

There was no appearance from Elon Musk this year warning of a coming civil war, although Robinson did invite the crowd to thank him. \u201cNone of this would have happened if it wasn\u2019t for one man \u2013 thank you Elon, on behalf of Great Britain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

All told, then, a protest that could be described as \u201clargely peaceful\u201d without irony. To put the 31 arrests in context, 528 people were arrested at last year\u2019s Notting Hill carnival, four people were stabbed and 55 police officers were assaulted.<\/p>\n

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Protesters at Tommy Robinson\u2019s Unite the Kingdom rally and the rival, pro-Palestinian Nakba Day protest numbered around 80,000 combined. Both gatherings saw a total of 31 arrests. In contrast, 528 people were arrested at last year\u2019s Notting Hill carnival, four people were stabbed and 55 police officers were assaulted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":327089,"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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327087","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=327087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327088,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327087\/revisions\/327088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}