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Protest at the Port of Dover

TheCatWoman

Has anyone else seen this? An unknown number but reconned to be in the hundreds of black clad and masked men turned up at the Port of Dover today and blocked every entrance and exit to it. causing huge delays for travellers and a 4 mile lorry tailblack. The police apparently know nothing about it, no one seems to know who they were or what group they were representing or who organised it. The police just walked alongside the protesters, who were seemingly peaceful until they dispearsed some time later. It seems they were protesting about boat corssings of immigrants, but I'm not sure if anyone really knows?

Should we be worried about this, a lot of people were really scared, especially lone women?

I've been active in poitical protests on and off for years, I've never seen anything like this before, usually when protesting you want everyone to know who you are and why you're there, not disguise youself behind masks and carry nothing to say who you're representing.

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  • What is really worrying about this is the lack of police presence, why were there no police in riot gear? It seems like a couple of granny's protesting about genocide in Gaza and the police are all over them, but hundreds of masked thugs holding up the lawful movement of passengers at the UK's largest ferry terminal, nothing. Also worrying is a police statement that the incident was a, "spontaneous protest". It was obviously organised beforehand! I think the relevant police force and its leadership need to be investigated, soon and thoroughly!

  • in reply to Martin

    Another lot of the same group blocked Portsmouth earlier because a migrant boat was coming in full of asylum seekers and they didn't want it to land.

    How did they know the boat was arriving?

    How did they mobilise so quickly?

    This time there was a bigger police presense, there were arrests and the riot squad was out.

    I agree Martin, when you compare it to Gaza protests and the over policing there and the under policing of yesteradays protest.

    I expect there to be an announcement proscribing this group as a terrorist organisation, just like Palestine Action and so many other groups on the left. Successive government have been warned for years about the threat posed by the far right, but they've chosen to ignore it.

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  • in reply to Martin

    Another lot of the same group blocked Portsmouth earlier because a migrant boat was coming in full of asylum seekers and they didn't want it to land.

    How did they know the boat was arriving?

    How did they mobilise so quickly?

    This time there was a bigger police presense, there were arrests and the riot squad was out.

    I agree Martin, when you compare it to Gaza protests and the over policing there and the under policing of yesteradays protest.

    I expect there to be an announcement proscribing this group as a terrorist organisation, just like Palestine Action and so many other groups on the left. Successive government have been warned for years about the threat posed by the far right, but they've chosen to ignore it.

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