Youth group blasted for 'disrespectful' pro-Palestine Cenotaph protest on Armistice Day: 'It is nonsense!'

At the scene, demonstrators held up a banner which read "Lammy Stop Arming Genocide", before police subsequently removed the wreath stating it was "inappropriate".

Speaking to GB News, Major Michael Shearer said the protest was "nonsense" and a "disrespectful" decision to hold the demonstration on a solemn and significant day for Britain.

Expressing his fury, Shearer stated: "It is a nonsense. First of all, I've got socks older than the Palestinian flag, so what these people are shouting for, they do not know.

"That is the truth. The idiots that dance around on the roads and call for all sorts of idiotic things whilst really disrespecting the very freedoms that allow them to do that is extraordinary to me."

Offering a defence for the protesters, Shearer admitted he can "forgive them at some level" as they are "young and stupid".

Shearer explained: "I can forgive them at some level because we were all young and stupid at some stage. I can forgive the youth for that at some level, because it is the political will that we need to be looking at.

"But my good God, they just don't know how perilous their freedoms are."

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Delivering his verdict on the protest, host Patrick Christys said it is "disrespectful" and "indecent" for the group to demonstrate on Armistice Day, but argued whether the lack of British history being taught in schools could be a reason why younger generations are protesting for international issues.

Shearer agreed, adding: "Well, and therein I'm afraid is the nonsense.

"And I think that our whole curriculum, particularly when it comes to history and particularly when it comes to just being proud to be British of all the great things that the United Kingdom of Britain, that England actually has given to the world.

"I don't understand this rail against our great British history. It's extraordinary and it is something that needs to be addressed."

In a statement, a Youth Demand spokesperson said: "On this day we remember those who gave their lives fighting a genocide.

"Yet the government disgraces their memory by continuing to sell UK made weapons to a state guilty of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

"The world said ‘never again’ would we allow such atrocities to happen, and yet it is happening again right now to the people of Gaza, whilst the Western political establishment and media continue to misdirect the public about what is transpiring.

"Regardless of our differences we must come together to demand our political leaders take the basic steps to protect the lives of innocent people, or we will have truly lost our humanity."