MARCH FOR REMIGRATION

At a far-right demonstration, police and protesters clashed as opposing factions engaged in combat.

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered outside Manchester Piccadilly station in Manchester as members of the far-right Britain First party were ready to march into the city.

Crowds packed the streets of the rally, waving St George’s flags and Union Jacks.

But they were met by counter-protesters organised by Stand Up To Racism, who staged a protest opposite the anti-immigration group.

Manchester City Council said Greater Manchester Police had a ‘robust operational plan’ in place to manage the protests, with a focus on public safety and maintaining order.

The council said a number of ‘regular’ protests are also expected on Saturday, adding some ‘may occur across multiple locations in the city centre’.

Greater Manchester Police said in a statement: ‘We respect and facilitate the right to lawful protest.

‘As ever, appropriate plans will be put in place with the organisers and local partners to minimise disruption for those who live, work, and visit our city centre.’

This is not the only demonstration occurring this week.

As previously reported, anti-migrant demonstrators faced off against anti-racism counter-protesters this evening outside a hotel on the south coast used to house asylum seekers.

On Friday, demonstrators gathered outside the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea, Hampshire, demanding the closure of the establishment while brandishing flags.

There have been anti-immigration protests in Portsmouth, Southampton, and Bournemouth, among other places in the South of England.

All the demonstrations are taking place at places where the government are housing migrants while their asylum applications are processed.

In Southsea, counter-protesters from Stand Up to Racism Portsmouth orchestrated an event at the same location, bearing signs reading ‘Refugees welcome’. 

The day of protests on the south coast follows similar recent unrest in Epping, where a string of protests have taken place calling for the closure of The Bell Inn, a hotel used on and off for the last five years as housing for asylum seekers.

After widespread objections, a ring of steel was also built around the Britannia International Hotel, a four-star luxury hotel in London’s Canary Wharf that has been transformed into a shelter for migrants.

An Epping-style demonstration to stop migrants being accommodated above a town’s shops took to the streets on Wednesday in Waterlooville, Hampshire, as thousands of locals warned of ‘mayhem’ if the plans go ahead.

The British people will continue to defend their nation. The next generation shouldn’t feel like second-class citizens in their own nation because it is ours.

We are now a hugely divided country. Starmer said there would be change, but he’s given us more of the same, and he is frankly defying the will of the British people. He has also lost control of the country, which will explode very soon because British people are fed up with being treated like second-class citizens – enough is enough!

Keir Starmer is insulting and stereotyping the British people of the UK so that he can control them and prevent them from taking action, but the good people of this country can see straight through his tactics – we are not stupid, which makes Starmer look extremely stupid indeed!

Keir Starmer has no spine, and MPs are terrified of the responses their policies and inactions are causing, and they’re attempting to cow the people into silence by labelling them as mean, nasty and violent.

They call them far-right protesters – they’re not far right, they are right for standing up for what they believe in.

They use this term because it’s derogatory and designed to align us with the fascists of the 1930s, and they love to use words that usually end in ist or -phobe when relating to people with whom they disagree.