I share your concern.
I hope you can make the Cardiff demo. (My home town incidentally.)
I share your concern.
I hope to make the demo which is taking place by a statue of Aneurin Bevan. This is fitting because a no deal Brexit and a trade deal with Trump will be a serious threat to the NHS. The clown has said it will not be, but then he said he would not suspend Parliament.
Had to go to the demo today. The local MP talked a lot of sense about the catastrophe which awaits if we crash out without a deal and the danger of an election allowing this to happen if the clown puts back an anounced date. Momentum spouted off the topic seeing the coup as their meal ticket.Docfoster wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 12:06 pmGood on you.CN211276 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:58 pm I am saddened that so many are blinded to what is so patently obvious. This blinkered outlook has enabled a motely crew of extreists to take over the Govenment and shut off democracy. I am shocked that this could happen in this country. I have not attended any form of demonstration for nearly forty years, but that could change on Tuesday when there is a pro democracy demonstration in Cardiff.
I went to the one down the road in Stroud yesterday.
I was pleased that the event was very much cross-party, and deliberately NOT Pro-Momentum or anti-Brexit. I don't want to stop Brexit, and am no fan of Momentum. I just want our representative democratic system to operate.
Of course there were present Socialist Worker salesman and Remoaners in Stroud yesterday, but they were very much in the minority. Most on the march and rally were concerned moderates (like me). Johnson-Cumming's actions have clearly united a wide spectrum of groups and individuals. The main speakers were a local LibDem councillor, a local Green MEP and the local MP David Drew (Labour Co-operative). All stressed the cross-party nature of the event, and were at pains to acknowledge the efforts of those Conservative and Leave voting supporters of Parliamentary Democracy.
I was relieved that these central messages tied in with my pre-prepared banner (4 years of History study at Cambridge paid off at last, as I just about managed to recall the siege of Gloucester during the civil war...)
I also recall that after the civil war John Bunyon asked his generation "Were you doers or talkers only? What canst thou say?"
Go on CN211276! Get yourself down the pro-parliament rally on Tuesday! You'll feel proud.
I'll be waving my placard again outside Shire Hall in Gloucester on Monday.