The men all wore a black ‘uniform’, there had been no warning and no social media posts. (They may have used telephones.) There was no problem, no threats, no intimidation. The men behaved in an orderly and efficient way. No hooliganism or disorder. They left after making their point. ‘This was essentially a military operation.’
There is an issue in the UK, where a law on the books says any people assembled wearing ‘a uniform’ and having any political purpose ‘shall be guilty of an offense.’
Is all black a uniform? I would say no, because a uniform involves a standardized symbolism of identificatoin. This is the opposite.
The reception of non-participants in Dover was approving and welcoming, he says. People waved and shouted encouragement.
He pointed out that next time the police will probably attempt to order everyone to remove their masks. But, he notes, to enforce that the police would have to outnumber them. Which raises a question about protests outside metropolitican centers.
While watching this video my internet disconnected and when I rebooted the video was not in my YouTube History.
Anotehr video on the subject from a regular UK vlogger. It seems part of the UK government's anti-protest reaction is to try to frame the participants as negative because they covered their faces, and that will be interesting to see if we've reached the point where that previously-socially-invalidating thing is now supported broadly.As well as the afore-mentioned law to try to say uniforms and political purpose together constitute a crime.