Protesting in Britain appears to be a full-time job for some people. The Israeli Prime Minister so much as coughs, or the American President sends a tweet, protesters pop up in central London en masse to support or oppose the cause.
Some turn up organically, some get bussed in: all are there, with their face masks and shouting their slogans, and with their pre-printed placards emblazoned with slogans.
Those placards are interesting, aren’t they? They’re always ready to go: correx boards, printed with the latest slogan or issue, stapled to wooden stakes and ready by the hundreds sometimes to distribute to lefty protesters at the drop of the hat.
In the wake of Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, protesters were out in London just hours later, armed with these placards, chanting and jeering. It got me thinking: how did these activists get these signs so quickly? It must have cost them handsomely, and to produce so many, at such short notice. Who funds these activities?
Organising a protest, printing banners in their multitudes and at short notice, and bussing in protesters, costs money and time - it’s a tightly-organised operation.
That’s before you even consider the cost to the taxpayer that is borne out of having to police these disruptive activities, protests thrown for protest’s sake.
It's not the protesters but the sinister forces behind them that should keep us up at night - Susan Hall
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Or the knock-on effect for crime in London - when the police can’t get on with tackling the crime on the street because they’re being sent to keep a watch over screaming lefties armed with highly-polished placards.
Why is this not being investigated properly? I believe in the right to protest - true and honest protest, such as the fantastic Pink Ladies demonstration in Westminster that I joined last Autumn - because that is part of our democracy.
But when people with big money can effectively rent-a-mob by funnelling cash into sophisticated left-wing protest machines, how can that be democratic?
If big money is funding the mayhem we see on our streets, which causes intimidation to Londoners and costs businesses a fortune, then we need to know.
These protests shape the national discourse when they are plastered across our screens and give the impression that “the people” feel one way or another.
In reality, it seems, it is just a loud, screechy minority that exists on the fringes of society and who are bankrolled either by wealthy individuals or wealthy organisations to agitate; controlled opposition. Are the unions funding this? When Londoners pay their union dues, are their fees being funnelled into protests such as these?
I want answers, and I’m not going to stop until I get them. The public deserves to know when their streets are packed with flash protests, which deprive London communities of effective policing, and where these protests come from.
We need to be sure that these protests are lawful, fair, honest, and don’t represent subversive elements trying to influence our society and politics negatively.
If big donors are bankrolling pointless protests, they should also be funding the policing of these protests. So far, no one seems to be asking those questions - so it looks like I am going to have to, so that we can get to the bottom of this.
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