Kate Hawkesby: The protest yesterday achieved very little

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 23, 2022 · 3m

I think what the protesters did yesterday was remind most of us that we’re not interested in going backwards, as a country. And it felt like that’s what yesterday’s protest was doing. Going backwards.

Banal pleas like locking up the PM, ‘when I say Cindy, you say jail time’ was one of the chants. And while I’m as sick of the Prime Minister as you are, this ain’t it.

This is not how you effect change, this is not how you get people on board. It’s certainly not how you get rid of a Prime Minister.

To be a great leader, or to even gather a credible movement, you need to have buy in from a large…