I am surprised at this analysis Nicholas. You are generally pretty objective but not this time.

I don’t think there is anything that connects the right wing counter-protesters to the other groups. Their primary motivation seems to be a desire to disrupt and cause problems and their stated concerns mere excuses.

I don’t agree with the tactics of any protester who participates in direct action which disrupts the lives of others but I believe their motivations are genuine. It’s their actions which are misguided. Many people aren’t marching for any kind of anti-Semitic motivation but for a genuine concern about the scale of the loss of innocent life. Let’s pass on the details of the others you cite but I am quite sure their motivations are very different to the right-wing trouble makers.

You may well not approve of the others but you must surely condemn those who just want to cause trouble?

Bloomin' Eck. This is why "enlightened" progressives are such a liability. They think they know it all.

Just out of interest (and I'm having a wild guess that you're not yet at the age that you shouldn't have a say on the future of the generations that you've already raised to BE that future) what age do we become too old to have a say?

And, this is me having a wild guess as well, I bet you would not consider yourself too old when you reach whatever random age you deem to remove the vote as by that time your wisdom should be shared, only to be a leading light for the generations following you.

oh yes you are being disrespectful....at what age do you think people should no longer be allowed to vote, guessing youre about 19 -20?? As far as I can see she said nothing wrong....suppose you just want to allow anyone and everyone into the country to live
on benefits? Who is gonna pay for that, you? Do you have a job?

That's another interesting view and definitely makes sense in part.
I would counter it and add weight to my argument by saying that we are witnessing change happening at an unprecendated rate of speed, due to the internet and other technologies taking over. This means that the differences between each generation is now greater than ever before. Hence all the grief we are now getting in the whole Gammon/Woke war. People from different generations are so very different from one another that they just can't understand the other side of the coin anymore. This is why I feel that there should be an age cap on voting. The age that I would suggest we cap it off at would be somewhere between 70 and 75. Your average 70 year old now days is so far out of touch with your modern day 18-35 year old that it is like they are from different planets. I think it would also help eveyone to get on a lot better, removing the importance of fighting political battles and culture wars.

Oh it has. I was alive at the time.

Not sure how old you are but this country has gone down the crapper at an increasing rate over the last 50 years. What I see these days I never thought could happen in my lifetime. It is a dystopian novel realised.

From the BMJ :

"Industrial action across the NHS for the last 10 months has delayed nearly one million patient procedures and appointments amid record-high waiting lists. That alarming number doesn’t tell the whole story because every strike affects many more patients who just don’t get booked in on strike days. There is concern too about long-lasting effects on the health of patients who have had treatment delayed. The disruption and potential harm of delayed treatment is a growing risk for the NHS to manage.

Strikes make it harder for trusts to keep making headway on cutting backlogs, a government priority."