Yesterday In Whitehall And The Battle Of Cable Street Compared
I asked Google AI “How many Tommy Robinson supporters were in Whitehall yesterday and received this answer.
London’s Metropolitan Police said the march, organised by anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson, drew an estimated 110,000 to 150,000 people, far surpassing expectations.
The Times has a similar figure.
Sky News says this about the counter protest.
An anti-racism counter-protest, attended by about 5,000 campaigners, also took place.
This is backed by other reports.
The Times also said this paragraph about the Police.
More than 1,600 officers were deployed to deal with the demonstrations as well as several football fixtures in the capital. At least 500 police had been drafted in from forces outside London, including the Merseyside, Humberside and Avon & Somerset forces.
So what was it like in the 1930s, when Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts tried to march through the East End of London?
Google AI gives this account of the numbers.
At the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, there were approximately 3,000-5,000 fascists attempting to march, protected by 6,000-7,000 police officers, who were met by a larger, determined counter-protest of tens of thousands of locals, with estimates for the anti-fascist crowd ranging from over 100,000 to as many as 300,000 people.
My father, who was proud of his part-Jewish heritage and very much an anti-Fascist was there.
It looks like numbers were more the other way yesterday. I don’t think that’s a good thing.
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