Prominent anti-lockdown figure Piers Corbyn helped lead ‘freedom rally’ through Milton Keynes
Police are appealing for information on the dozens of people filmed taking over an NHS test-and-trace site in Milton Keynes, with one woman captured ransacking an office and stealing what appears to be various Covid testing samples and equipment. A large group of anti-vaxxers were filmed on Wednesday storming the facility – where PCR tests are sent to be analysed – holding placards reading “Freedom is not negotiable” and chanting slogans such as “You can shove your f***ing vaccine up your a***”.
Police are appealing for information on the dozens of people filmed taking over an NHS test-and-trace site in Milton Keynes, with one woman captured ransacking an office and stealing what appears to be various Covid testing samples and equipment. A large group of anti-vaxxers were filmed on Wednesday storming the facility – where PCR tests are sent to be analysed – holding placards reading “Freedom is not negotiable” and chanting slogans such as “You can shove your f***ing vaccine up your a***”. The footage, which was shared on social media, also showed members of the crowd throwing traffic cones towards the marquee set up to administer tests, while a man can be heard announcing via a loud hailer that they “come peacefully”.
It was not immediately clear if those present believed the testing site was a vaccination centre but much of the anger expressed in the videos appeared to be about Covid jabs.
Some of the crowd were videoed approaching centre staff, shouting at them to “take off” their fluorescent orange NHS jackets, demanding to know if they “have been vaccinated” and filming them on their mobile the far-right For Britain Movement, addressed the crowd before leading its charge through the site, where he claimed there were “millions” of like-minded anti-vaccine activists who have “woken up”. Others are shown knocking down signs for the testing centre, while the crowd is heard shouting “shame on you” and “fascist bastards”. MPs condemned the actions of those at the protest, with shadow trade secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds criticising people for their “dreadful” behaviour and for abusing “NHS staff [who] are working over the festive season to help others”.
He urged anyone with information to pass this onto Thames Valley Police, while Tory MP Alicia Kearns thanked all the NHS “volunteers and staff who deserve so much better than this shameful, self-aggrandising nonsense”.
Source: Independent
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