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Has anyone been following the Unite The Kingdom/Raise The Colors rallies in the UK? Did they pull big numbers (the protesters have an incentive to inflate their numbers, of course, and the establishment has an incentive to deflate them)? Has there been a noticeable shift in the political discourse around them?
As the other posters have said, numbers for the march appear heavily inflated and it wasn't that massive. At the same time, it does seem to represent a noticeable shift. Protests arranged by Tommy Robinson or involving him in some way were lucky to attract thousands in the past, it was always a bit of a joke. Suddenly he's pulling in huge crowds and everything has a veneer of acceptability to it that it didn't in the past.
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