Anti-migrant boat protesters block roads in Portsmouth and Dover
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
Sam Freedman968This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.
James Austin48Wrth noting, if only for amusement, Thomas didn't even try to kidnap the right guy
Paul Moreau29Local press haven't been shying away and have been covering this too bsky.app/profile/oxfo...
Jo29Ryan Bridge - seen at Reform "conference". Accredited journalists - Refused.
Stevie Chick16As my partner just pointed out to me, all these crims hanging out together and getting up to their escapades with other convicted crims - is this not contravening the terms of their parole?
Sharpie12And here’s another one. Obviously with legitimate concerns about protecting our kids, I don’t doubt that for a moment. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2600892...
Ruth Watson12Fascist paramilitaries in England, with Tommy Robinson supporting them on social media. Tommy Robinson, the 'English patriot' who went for a meeting with Elon Musk's dad in Russia a few weeks ago. How far would one have to dig to find the hand of foreign agents funding these fascists?
Stephanie Lamy8Note how the public-facing rhetoric of the “concerned citizen” is once again mobilised to project reasonableness and grassroots spontaneity. A far cry from what is real: an organised network of white male supremacists, mobilised for rapid deployment and guerrilla-style disruption.
JWexTheSpa8We have a government too terrified to call violent criminals violent criminals.
Lynda Williams3Looking forward to Burnham standing up to these wankers - anytime now would be nice? Hello? Hello?
Charles M. A. Thomsen3Forskellen mellem UK og Danmark: De liberal-konservative partier i Danmark fordømmer (stadig) optog med hætteklædte tidligere kriminelle. Det er en lav bar, men uden den, er bunden praktisk talt nået
The Southport riots in 2024 felt like rage spilling into our streets. The Dover and Portsmouth protests feel far more planned, far more organised. And, frankly, they scare me a hell of a lot more.
Alan Stedman15Spot on We live about 400m from the Southport riots. They were spontaneous relatively speaking but interconnections between key groups were already there and SM played a big part The Dover 'protests' were planned well in advance using funds from abroad imo. Portsmouth just a piggy back on Dover
Gerard12The US and Russia are waging a hybrid war against the UK.
nicola8Farage was very quick to condemn It’s very neat Reform have a disaster of a conference Danny Tommo’s mob turn up, funded by overseas donations Sight of men on streets in paramilitary get up may push the floating voters back into Reform - as the reasonable solution A pincer movement if like
I posted this on another site- let’s look at it strategically The beginnings of a unofficial citizen militia/paramilitary Organised to dress/come in Not by social media so how Police response is logged: how fast what size riot or regular Laws/actions applied This was a test & a recruitment drive
Barry James6Where they brought the migrants in at Eastney is a single road leading to the marina and foot ferry. It is surrounded by flats and not much else. Had they used Portsmouth Harbour it would have been easier to block off for the police
Trinovantian4I'm not scared, I'm angry. Angry at the mob of racist cowards, the security services, the police and the media reporting. How did the mob hear that a boat load of people would be rescued and taken there and have time to get organised, coordinate wardrobes and get there?
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉42What the Bear says..👇 I too fight it deeply concerning and frankly frightening that an army of thugs can done a balaclava, a paramilitary uniform and cease control of major travel hubs.. anyone who doesn’t, IMO, should give their head a wobble 
Tony Robertson32Agreed, so why are the Burnham and the police playing it all down? They are letting us all down by looking like they're not taking Dover & Portsmouth events seriously.
Mia15Pls share if you can This is important - I didn’t know how well organised this was - but would most certainly agree that this is scary
galb1902.bsky.social9V much agreed Bear...this was coordination on social media at its worst. Hubby blames Reform, am tempted to think it's a reform supporter not the party..they can't be that stupid..can they?
Slightly stronger line on the anti-migrant gangs from No 10 at lobby just now: Condemning "intimidating and thuggish behaviour" in Dover & Portsmouth as "absolutely unacceptable" & condemned unreservedly Right to peaceful protest is respected "but not where it crosses the line into disorder"
Josiah Mortimer47A right-wing journalist then asked what the evidence of "thuggery" was from the far-right activists, suggesting it was just pushing, shoving and water being splashed (...ignoring, among other things, the fact hundreds of masked men ignored dispersal orders)
Prof Chris Jackson12took a while to get this said 🙁
Wokerati International Brigades #FreePalestine #Antifa4ever8"Condemned unreservedly", what a joke. Hundreds of people were arrested for protesting genocide and scores of peaceful activists are still in jail! #TwoTierPolicing
Ali Dee4"but not where it crosses the line into disorder" such as writing on a sign.
Bob’s Your Uncle4But we aren’t going to do anything about it
Conspiratorially engineered protest isn’t protest at all. It’s the product of barefaced manipulation & subversion, & itself (deliberately) opens the door to intimidation, violence & thuggery. First, build the bonfire. Then strike a match. Finally, condemn & disown the catastrophic fire that follows.
'They are standing up for their country, because no one else is listening to them.' 'You can express that concern without a balaclava on, looking like a paramilitary.' Shelagh Fogarty and caller Barry debate after the anti-migrant protests.
Suzanne14Standing up for their country from what/who? I want my country back. Back from people like this caller and the balaclava boys.
Oswyn6Sheila "legitimate concerning" sympathy for the Far Right groups funded by known fascists. Pathetic.
LondonDiscuss5Perhaps we're not listening to them because they are racist violent thugs.
Rob5How would barry feel if British muslims, or the british black community went out in balaclavas to stand up for their country?
Matthew Link3Should have just driven cars and Lorries at them. Which is what the far right gammonati suggested as a solution to the just stop oil protesters. Sauce for the goose and all that
Callum 🇺🇦🇺🇦2Why are they always called Barry?
The ‘protests’ in Dover and Portsmouth were entirely spontaneous, just as the police say. Because everyone has a set of black clothes and matching balaclava in their wardrobes and it was sheer coincidence they all wore it on the same day.
Barry Ryerson3I thought such protests or marches had to notify the police first?
Louis 〓〓1Perhaps they all have a side hustle of robbing homes and cars
Alex Walters1Must have been a bit embarrassing when they discovered they’d all picked the same outfit.
Citizen Paul Templeman1Kent police, said it was a “spontaneous protest” at which it made no arrests.
'The Politics Of Poison': Andy Burnham Condemns Anti-Migrant Protests www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andy-b...
