The anti-lockdown rally at Trafalgar Square was organised by Save Our Rights UK. This embryonic organisation is so new that its website only has a single page. And it seems inexperienced at staging large demos. The amplification on a windy day needed to be cranked up to the max but the sound was inaudible from many parts of the square. Dozens of protesters were parading hand-made placards – which is standard practice at a rally – but the slogans were unusually aphoristic and politically astute:
‘Quarantine is locking up the sick. Despotism is locking up the healthy.’
‘Compliance with stupidity is consent to tyranny.’
‘When dictatorship becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’
‘Police – we are on your side but where does “just following orders” end?’
‘It’s now a conspiracy theory to believe that the immune system is capable of doing the job it’s designed to do.’
This battle is about reason and evidence.
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