A spokesperson from Oxford Stop the War, which is organising the protest, told Cherwell, “As predicted, the Prime Minister has put forward an illogical and misguided argument for British air strikes in Syria”.
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Protestsbegan in London on Saturday as hundreds of demonstrators are protesting against government plans to launch a bombing campaign in Syria.
Mr Cameron spelled out his rationale for more attacks in a speech and report to parliament on Thursday, telling lawmakers that bombing is needed alongside political attempts to form a new government in Syria.
A defiant Jeremy Corbyn has stamped his authority on the Labour Party over supporting bombing in Syria after saying only he will decide whether his MPs have a free vote in the Commons on raids and telling them to consider grassroots opposition to airstrikes.
It comes as Mr Corbyn has emailed Labour Party members to ask whether they think parliament should vote to authorise airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.
Jeremy Corbyn is on track for a dramatic showdown with his own shadow cabinet after insisting that he alone has the final decision on whether Labour opposes airstrikes in Syria.
“As the Prime Minister has made clear, if we don’t think we have the numbers, we won’t call a vote”.
“But we should look to countries like China”.
“That can help. And Britain should be part of that action because of the extra resources and abilities that we can bring”.
After what is certain to be a tense shadow cabinet meeting, he’ll face MPs in a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
“There was a awful tragedy in Paris but it’s the job of a responsible government to respond to that in a responsible way, and not just simply say that they’re going to bomb”, Stop the War Coalition’s Lindsey German told AFP.
Hollande made the appeal after a tribute to the 130 victims of the Paris attacks, during which he vowed to destroy the “army of fanatics” behind the violence that rocked the French capital two weeks ago.
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, is in favour of a free vote across all parties as a matter of conscience. The bombing has already been going on for more than a year by other forces. “We decided, President Obama and myself, to scale up our strikes both in Syria and Iraq to broaden their scope, to strengthen our intelligence sharing regarding the targets we might aim at”, Hollande said.
On the Commonwealth Mr Cameron said that despite being a consensus organization it could still send out strong messages to its member countries. The Times newspaper said senior Labour officials and lawmakers had sought legal advice on how to unseat Corbyn in the hope of building support for a plot against him.
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Actor Mark Rylance and musician Brian Eno handed a letter in to Downing Street urging Mr Cameron not to join the global air strikes.
