Some light arithmetic:
One high figure used for estimating rally sizes is 4 people/m². 1 million people at that density occupies 0.25 sqkm.
At 50 abreast across a 25m street, 1 million people would stretch, at the aforegiven density, for 10km. About the distance between West Ham and Charing Cross.
London streets are generally narrower in reality, and lower densities of just 2 people/m² or even 1, are more common.
I am reminded of the "million people" who supposedly turned up in Washington D.C. in support of #DonaldJTrump during xyr first term.
I suspect that most people have no conception of what a million people looks like. So they accept the lie of a million people turning up, rather than do some simple arithmetic to check whether a million people could even physically fit in that amount of road.
Alas, it probably will not affect the E.U. travel of someone who swans around on a E.U. member state's passport. It's not linked to the #EnglandRiots and thus not enough for any travel ban.
The more cynical commentators predict that xe will claim political persecution by people uninvolved in the libel case and … seek asylum.
#FreedomOfMovement #UKPolitics #StephenYaxleyLennon #FarageRiots
@witewulf The Glaswegians were rather direct with "Nazi scum off our street!" a while back. Although they were addressing a party of 2 wannabe politicians one of whom had been chucked out by Farage. No-one else had turned up. Perhaps Loughborough will be likewise blessed by no-one at all giving the stall the time of day.
#FarageRiots #EnglandRiots #ReformUKLTD #UKPolitics #Glasgow
I went straight to the Liverpool Echo for #Southport coverage, myself.
Despite being a #ReachPLC publication full of the usual #BadJournalism, it does have fairly good coverage of all this that is better than those of the nationals and the telly news.
https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/faith-leaders-gather-walk-unity-29852984
Its court reporting of the appearances of the various hooligans in the #EnglandRiots in the area was interesting, too.
Does Germany have an equivalent of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? That was a significant causative factor in the #EnglandRiots.
The rhetoric of openly Putinist politician #NigelFarage has also been blamed.
A lot of it was sheer criminal opportunism. When the criminals started being deterred by the immediate (as in Monday morning) court hearings and dropped out, only the extremist hatemongers were left turning up, and there turned out to be a lot fewer of them.
Since within the first paragraph this makes an egregious error of fact, the rest is probably not adequately fact checked too.
Rowan Atkinson didn't make a speech after the recent #EnglandRiots. *That* speech by him was given in 2012, and republished by far right accounts on YouTube this month titled and captioned as if it were current.
Ironically, the person who wrote this piece has fallen for the very propaganda that xe decries.
Don't read too much into this. The serial offenders will be the ones with solicitors and straightforward guilty pleas, and are thus quick to process.
The ones who plead not guilty will be slower to travel down the pipeline. They'll also get the longer sentences, as surrendering and an immediate guilty plea tend to lead to a shorter sentence, as here.
https://cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/public-order-offences-incorporating-charging-standard#_Toc23932841
A quick look at #UKLaw and which "authoritarian" government created what legislation relating to the recent #EnglandRiots.
The Public Order Act 1986 made riot, and incitement to riot, statutory (where for centuries they had been common law) offences. CUP government; under Margaret Thatcher.
The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 made common assault on an emergency worker a specific offence. CUP government; under Theresa May.
No, it isn't; but there's deceptive propaganda from the hooligan gangs and extremists that it is, when in fact what was targetted was *incitement to riot* and *conspiracy*, which are crimes (the former under common law for centuries, and statutory since 1986), and the rioters themselves were arrested for things like arson, burglary, and assault. On video!
So beware of a rabbit hole of false propaganda, when asking such a question.
JdeBP