Unite the Kingdom march and the corruption of Main Stream Media

I haven't believed that we are getting the unfiltered truth from any main stream media outlet for quite some years. Way back in 2018 I spoke to a friend who lives in Barcelona and we discussed the BBC. He thought I was crazy at the time for suggesting that, at the very least they were dishonest - not even he holds this opinion any more.

But after attending the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally on 13th September 2025, I have now witnessed first hand just how corrupt the media really is

First off was the amount of people who went. There are videos from a helicopter that show anyone with half a noodle that there were more than 110,000 people in attendance. Any imbecile can work that out. Get around the DEI filters on ChatGpt, upload the video and it will work out that there was way north of 600K and that doesn't include all the side roads and other bridges not shown in the footage.

But I was there. I am not a complete doughnut. I have been to many football and boxing matches, visited Wembley many times which holds 90,000, to the 2012 Olympics and even a Boca Juniors derby with River Plate in Buenos Aires. I can judge a crowd well enough. Even from a ground position you could see there were orders of magnitude more people there than those events. Then we spoke to a policeman. Mid forties, polite, pleasant, I imagine he has attended plenty of the Palestine demonstrations over the last 2 years and he said he had never seen this amount of people in London and estimated 2 million.

Maybe it was 2 million - maybe 3, maybe it was 1 million, maybe it was 'just' 600K but what it wasn't by any way imaginable was 110K. That figure is not just wrong it is contemptuous.

Obviously, it is the interests of the establishment to invent a narrative that a small minority of right wing fascists arrived in London to attack the Police rather than 2 million ordinary citizens who gave up their Saturday to walk in the rain, many of them travelling from all over the country and beyond, to peacefully demonstrate that they are unhappy with the way the Country is being run.

Which brings me onto my second point. The lies about the demonstration itself. The BBC is utterly disgusting. 'Dozens of officers injured as up to 150,000 join Tommy Robinson rally'. I won't bang on with all the stats but there are plenty of articles about the Notting Hill Carnival which had 400 arrests and The Palestine Action demonstration which had - wait for it - 890 arrests with an attendance of 1500.

Unite the Kingdom had 26. Even if you use the lying made up figures from the MSM that's 0.024 arrests per 1000 v 593 per 1000 for palestine action. Are you taking the piss, or what?

That is probably why I saw no trouble at all. I saw no racism, I saw plenty of black and brown people and I saw a hell of a lot of flags. I heard plenty of chants of 'Keir Starmer is a Wanker' and I heard a lot of very lame football type chants but I never heard anyone shouting for the death of anyone else, I never saw any placards or signs demanding that either. The placards were home-made, amateur affairs - not the mass produced ones donated by Iran / Hamas / Against Racism / Free Palestine marches et al.

There were a lot of football supporters at the start. I think they came before or after some of the London matches were on and some had clearly has a scoop or two but they were no trouble. As the day went on I saw a lot of working class people, more women and children and even some of the middle classes. I also met people from all over the country, as far away as Cornwall and even some Americans which I thought was amazing and for me very touching - that they should care enough about what is happening in the UK to carry a union flag in a march. There were some with the stars and stripes and placards for Charlie Kirk.

I saw plenty of police but nowhere near enough for the amount of attendees. They would have had no chance at all if it had turned nasty but it never felt like it would. It felt calm, good-natured and safe. The police were polite and professional, likewise the crowd.

I'm not saying there was no trouble at all but I didn't see any personally. I have seen some on Youtube since but compared to those Saturday marches it was chalk and cheese. A tiny amount of people.

But read the main stream media and you would have a completely different view of this event. So different that it isn't the same event at all.

Lets start with the publications where these lies are not surprising at all:

Tommy Robinson's day of rage - The New Statesman

The far-right march was a significant event, and a sinister one - The independent

Obviously and sadly the BBC.

Sly News - 'Minority' who attacked police at 'Unite the Kingdom' rally 'will pay a price', minister says as up to 150,000 people march in London (note how they put 'minority' in inverted commas. Wankers.)

The utterly deplorable liars at the Guardian - Far-right London rally sees record crowds and violent clashes with police who stated that 110,000 people attended then contradicted themselves with a page dedicated to the video footage of the aerial shots showing the scale of the protest here.

The Standard - Most shocking moments from Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally

The free daily marxist rag 'The Metro' where the 'number of people arrested at the Unite the Kingdom march has jumped to at least 25 people.'

Then the foreign agitators like Al Jazeera - Clashes in London as 110,000 join far-right rally against immigration and Google of course that served it all up.

And then those papers you might expect to do better like The Telegraph: Tommy Robinspon protestors attack police. Whose subscription I have now happily cancelled.

Only the Times and the Spectator carried discussion that came anywhere near the truth. Trevor Phillips, of all people, wrote the Times piece, I fear he won't have a job much longer at Sky News if he insists on delivering well-balanced and fair journalism. There is simply no place for that sort of thing at Sky News in the UK.

So, what does this all mean?

Well, as I said, I was under no illusions that we had a fair and truthful main stream media in the UK but for me personally the curtain has been well and truly pulled back. I am astonished at the extent to how much they lie - and I can't unsee it.

And I am very disheartened that the average punter is still lazy and dis-informed enough to swallow it down. I spoke to my French friend this afternoon who lives near Strasbourg and asked me about the 'émeutes d'extrême droite' that happened in London over the weekend. 'Far right riots' for those who don't speak French but won't be surprised to discover the French MSM is just as corrupt as our own.

It really is like 1984 without the sophistication. The lies are as subtle as the Bakersfield massacre in the Running Man. As they say - you can't hate the mainstream media enough.