Open your third eye Glastonbury against the machine

By Richard Wright @ TheCritic.co.uk19 May, 2020​

Best known these days for its annual pop festival, the ancient town of Glastonbury in Somerset has become perhaps the unlikely epicentre of dissent against the Government’s lockdown.

While the festival site at Pilton nearby is this year given back to grazing cows because of the coronavirus outbreak, the marketplace in the town centre has seen a series of protests against the restrictions imposed in the light of Covid-19.

Small but repeated demonstrations, breaking the Government guidelines on gathering in public and social distancing, have brought police, including mounted officers, out in force.

Events have also attracted an unlikely coalition of speakers: Piers Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour leader, who claims the virus is part of an agenda to bring in one world government, mandatory vaccines and a plan to get everyone microchipped; Mike Overd, the ex-paratrooper turned street evangelist, once dubbed ‘the most arrested preacher in Britain’; and Geraint Christopher, the cannabis campaigner, who runs the shop Hemp in Avalon in the town centre.

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