March of Freedom

The March of Freedom occurred on the 26th February 2023, the march was organised by Johnny Watson and Former Leader of the EDL, Tommy Robinson. Most "Far-Right" rallies had managed to organise a few thousand supporters in the recent years. However with Robinson endorsing the party a month earlier after Hugh Lord and Paul Gould were arrested inciting hate speech.

He manage to galvanise his supporters including nearly all the PPV members. People who weren't even political were also outraged that these two men were arrested on "superficial charges" to limit their free speech.

The protest was over 2 miles long and was estimated to contain 70,000 people. PPV claimed over 100,000 were in attendance. This was portrayed as a huge success by PPV as it was described "As the largest gathering of Patriotic Working class people standing up for their country's future and the defence of Free Speech."

The Protest which began in Hyde Park ended outside Parliament Square. Where guest speakers gave speeches which included Johnny Watson, Tommy Robinson and Carl Benjamin. However despite the success 4 arrests were made as a few radical protesters barred MP's from entering parliament and hurled abuse at them.

A counter protest organised by Labour MP, Chuka Umuna and Green leader Johnathan Bartley was much smaller in comparison and managed to galvanise around 15,000. Many clashs occurs as police struggled to keep the two protests apart.

As a result of the Protest PPV's poll numbers doubled over the next month from 3% to 6%, after gaining a huge amount of media attention to relatively unknown movement.