One hundred years ago this month, Britain had its first national memorial event to remember and honour the dead from the killing fields of the First World War. Since then there has been a continual act of national remembrance every year on Remembrance Sunday that nothing has stopped. Even during the height of World War II when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi hordes were baying at Britain’s gates and Britons lived under the daily threat of being annihilated by bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe, Britons still gathered at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to remember the dead of the First World War and what was then the current conflict.

Nothing stopped Britons from remembering – until yesterday when Remembrance Sunday went ahead without the thousands of Britons that usually attend due to Boris Johnson’s massive overreaction to the issue of Covid. Only the Royal Family and the political and military elites were allowed to attend, the veterans of Britain’s wars and the Britons who wanted to remember their friends and relatives who fell in various conflicts were excluded and that exclusion was enforced by aggressive police officers from Sadiq Khan and Cressida Dick’s Metropolitan Police. Members of the public could not even look through the barriers to view the service as the police and the local authority had erected a screen of black material on the fences in order to stop the public viewing from afar the Remembrance service. You can see via the video below the lengths that were taken to exclude the public from watching let alone taking part. The videos below come from a variety of sources including the Subject Access and Tommy Robinson social media accounts. They are being uploaded from downloads due to the possibility that these videos may disappear from the platforms where they were originally uploaded to.

The police went out of their way to stop anyone, including veterans, from honouring Britain’s war dead. There was one particular incident that has gained an awful lot of justifiable attention. This was when at a police barrier to Whitehall, there was a police assault against a lone veteran piper. This incident occurred near where the Cenotaph is situated and incidentally also very close to where police earlier this year ran away from violent BLM / Marxist protestors to the sound of shouting from the BLM Marxists of ‘run piggy run’. In my view, based on what I’ve seen from various footage taken in the environs of Westminster, the Metropolitan Police behaved with a lot more aggression towards British military veterans and their supporters than they ever did against the BLM/Marxists.

Here’s some video of the incident involving the piper.

On viewing and reviewing this footage I find myself concurring with Ex Army Paz that the piper wheeling to his left and close to the police line may well have been seen by the police as antagonistic. If he’d wheeled to his right then this incident may not have happened. However there was little or no excuse for the police to push this piper to the ground or arrest him. This was nothing like how this incident should have been policed. Instead of professionalism we had unprofessional thuggery from the police. Of course it would have been reasonable for the officer in question to put his arm out to fend off the piper but not to push the man to the ground. This incident caused a great deal of righteous anger in the crowd that had gathered.

Of course I accept that there may have been some degree of antagonism by the piper, but according to a commenter on Ex Army Paz’s video, who watched the entirety of the live feed of the incident, this perceived antagonism was in response to the police outrageously lying to the veterans. According to the commenter, the Met had said that some of the vets who had gathered could approach the Cenotaph after the official service had ended in order to lay a wreath. But the police allegedly rescinded that permission and blocked the progress of the veterans. It could be said that the piper’s antagonism to the police was the result of the effect of the police lying to the veterans rather than being completely unprovoked.

The Ex Army Paz commenter, Peter Smith said:

As I watched the live feed today from beginning to end.The veterans were told they couldn’t go to lay wreaths or pay respects until after 12:00. At 12:30 the police said they could now go down there to pay respects. They marched towards the memorial but were then stopped and told they could not go any closer than the cones in the road.(about a block away from the memorial) they then proceeded onwards towards the memorial and where met yet again with a wall of police that refused them to pas through and lay wreaths and pay respects. Yes the piper did step left,but it was not cause for police to push as they did.They mislead the veterans earlier to believe they could go to the memorial and they Lied.This piper knew what he was doing. I have respect for him not anger.He shows how the policing is today. Not our friends at all following blindly rules told. A massive disgrace to not let veterans through on Nov 11th to pay respects to the dead. Shame on them

This comment, if correct, puts a completely different spin on the incident. It seems that the police misled the veterans about what they were going to be allowed to do and this caused frustration among the crowd of veterans that had gathered, including the piper.

The felling of the piper is a particularly disgraceful incident from a police force that is increasingly becoming a national disgrace. It’s especially sick-making that it occurred in almost the same part of the area that police shamefully kneeled and then ran away from BLM/Marxist thugs and refused to use reasonable force against BLM/Marxist rioters despite significant provocation and violence from them. The Met have achieved nothing by pushing over this piper or lying to the veterans about being able to lay a wreath, except to solidify in the public’s mind that they police London in a two tier manner with BLM/Marxists being allowed to literally run riot,whilst meting out violence to those who have served their country. Apart from the piper who was knocked down, the only injuries incurred here are yet more hurt to the reputation of the Met among the public.

When all this is over Boris Johnson will be remembered not as the man who steered Britain out of the clutches of the EU, but instead as the man who did what Adolf Hitler could not do which is to stop ordinary Britons from remembering and honouring our war dead.