By Mathew Carr
May 24, 2025 — I’m heading to Downing St in London for the Great British National Strike because organisers say they accept diverse views.
The strike is against bad government on a Saturday and is anti-big business; supporters were asked to spend money only at small local businesses. Saturday is apparently the day of the week when Britons spend most.
To me, it’s still slightly weird it’s not being held on a weekday since it is called a “strike.”
I’m skeptical of the organizers because they are skeptical of almost 200 countries’ plans to limit emissions and head for net zero to save the climate.
The London protest is smallish.
I asked the strike’s organisers are they linked to the Reform political party under Nigel Farage. I’m pretty sure I have not got a response so far.
Still, there are multiple reasons to protest against Britain’s political and economic system; not just against the current Labour government under Keir Starmer.
Some include:
*Deception by government about the cause of inflation and how inflation steals from ordinary folks and rewards the rich
*Deception by government about the need for war and warmongering
*The takeover of Britain by the USA
*Labour, the Tories and even Reform are not tackling the most pressing issues and they are not speaking up about bad market rules that widen inequality and destroy nature — this is a global problem.
*Bad treatment of whistleblowers by successive governments around the world
*Health problems stemming from Covid are allegedly being downplayed and covered up
https://www.facebook.com/GBNStrike
While this event seems a little like a stress test to check the temperature of the British people….their tendency to want to riot ….I still want to check it out.
Telco/social media outages were alleged ahead of the strikes at noon London time.
Relevant Sky story:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdh3rSFR/
Meeting points
