Furious Anti-Migrant Campaigners Face Off With Counter-Demonstrators in Portsmouth
Anti-migrant protesters waving Union flags have squared up to counter-demonstrators in Portsmouth city centre as police brace for a tense weekend of rallies. The Mailhas more.
Police watched as people on each side gathered on the steps outside the council offices in the Hampshire city.
The hotel had been at the centre of protests after an asylum seeker living there was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl, which he denies.
Hotels in Cannock, Chichester and Tamworth are among those expected to be targeted by demonstrations, with anti-racism groups already organising counter-protests in 15 locations across the three-day Bank Holiday weekend.
They are prepared to turn up tonight in the likes of Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Leicester, Leeds, Orpington, Perth, Aberdeen and Altrincham.
One protester in Portsmouth tied a large flag of St George to the balcony which had on it the words “Born in England, Live in England, Die in England.”
The counter protesters also put up a banner, saying “Refugees Welcome, Celebrate Diversity”. …
Police enforced a gap between the two groups as the anti-immigrant group chanted: “Send them home” while the counter group chanted: “Refugees are welcome here.”
The authority found that 55 private rental properties were being used to house a minimum of three asylum seekers each last week.
The migrants have been staying in homes of multiple occupation (HMO) – not council housing.
It came just two years after James Hill, Portsmouth’s Director of Housing, told the Home Office that the “system’s capacity was such that we couldn’t support additional asylum seekers”.
But when a public meeting was hosted in July by Amanda Martin, the Labour MP for Portsmouth North, figures showed the number of private rentals being used to house migrants had increased from 10 at the end of 2019 to 58 in April 2024, the Times first reported.
The council confirmed with the Home Office last week that the number is now at 55, according to the newspaper.
Stop Press: Keir Starmer is set to appeal the High Court’s Epping ruling as Labour’s asylum policy teeters and councils across Britain prepare their own legal challenges, according to the Mail.
Well this must be one hell of an exclusive and a very interesting watch. And she’s even meeting the Trump admin tomorrow! I just knew this would all blow up in Starmer’s face and Lucy will have the last laugh;
”BREAKING: Lucy Connolly reveals she was Keir Starmer’s political prisoner & is now planning legal action against the police, as she prepares to meet with Trump administration officials tomorrow to blow whistle on UK free speech crackdown. Watch her Outspoken first interview.”
I hope she’s well advised this time. Connoly was sentenced to 31 months prison and is out on licence after 40% of that time. If she can be found to have broken the terms of her licence she could be sent back to serve the other 60% of her sentence. (I do think there’d be serious trouble if she was sent back inside).
Thanks for the link. I’m almost lost for words, it’s way, way worse than I thought possible.
Heretic
7 months ago
1) They’ve got the Wrong Slogan: “Born in England, Live in England, Die in England” could be said by any Pakistani Muslim, African Birth Tourist or Third World Parasite.
It might be better to say something like “England, the Ancestral Homeland of the English”.
Or “Where were your ancestors 500 years ago? Mine were right here!”
2) Why do the Communist Thugs only ever demonstrate in response to British Patriots, and never organize their own separate protests?
3) Why do the police allow both groups to march at the same time, then complain that they haven’t enough police officers to cope, instead of telling them to protest at different times on DIFFERENT DAYS?
But the Scots & Germans & Russians & Poles & Dutch & Swedes & Spaniards, etc. are all our Ethnic European brethren, with a common Christian heritage, and as The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, we must stick together in order to survive. “No More Brother Wars” as some say.
King Alfred the Great is one of my heroes, especially after reading Justin Pollard’s biography of him, called “Alfred the Great: The Man Who Made England”.
That’s why I like Cotfordtags’ suggestion of the Wessex Flag as the Flag of England. The Golden Wyvern on the Wessex Flag bears a remarkable resemblance to the Chinese golden dragons. The Chinese depict dragons in a much more accurate way, in my view, because they honour dragons as powerful benevolent beings, and depict them in a much more friendly way. The Western depictions of dragons are much more ugly and fierce, like some horror movie. Not accurate at all.
Christian heritage. There is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian”, as any honest Jewish rabbi will tell you. It is a term which was only invented a few decades ago for political purposes, which I only found out recently myself.
Good question.
I would be tempted by “So what?”.
Anyway one doubts that everyone using that slogan even believes in Jesus either as a historical figure and even less likely as the Son of God.
“The meaning of SOCIALISM is any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.”
Doesn’t seem to be reflected in any of the words in the New Testament… whereas according to Wikipedia: “19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as “the soul of soulless conditions” or the “opium of the people”. According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress. In other words, religion continues to survive because of oppressive social conditions.”
Unless you are going to allow the ‘not the right kind of socialism’ excuse.
““For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
I’m sure your average Socialist would agree with that 🙂
And how about Matthew 2:23 which relates the story that the Holy Family took temporary refuge in Egypt because Herod was killing first-born sons, but they returned to Israel when Herod had died and it was safe.
That’s a nice lesson for all those who have sought asylum in the UK: when it’s safe you GO BACK. The criminal migrants are not refugees, they’re economic migrants and should be immediately returned …. either to their own country or France. https://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/2.htm
Ah yes, one of the many stories about the Nativity told to the Apostles by the Impostor calling herself “The Virgin Mary”, the Liar, the Baby Thief who stole Newborn Jesus from his mother Elizabeth and his twin brother John the Baptist at Ein Karem where they were born, then persuaded Herod to Massacre the Innocents, hoping that both Elizabeth and John the Baptist would be slaughtered in the melee, while the Impostor smuggled her Stolen Child Jesus away to Egypt to raise him there for seven years. Before she left, the Impostor Mary also ensured the death of Zacharias, who refused to tell Herod’s soldiers where his wife and son had gone, and was killed for it. When she brought seven-year-old Jesus back after the new Herod took the throne, she was angry to find out that Elizabeth and her other twin son John the Baptist were still alive and hiding in the wilderness. So she went to the new Herod, using her old Temple connections, and persuaded him to send soldiers with a pack of hounds into the wilderness to hunt down and kill Elizabeth and John. When Elizabeth knew that they could not escape from the hounds hunting… Read more »
Jesus was a practising Jew who was born, lived and died in the Roman province of Judea, so not an immigrant. He believed in individuality, not collectivism according to the gospel accounts, so not a “Socialist”.
Ethnically he was a Semite with (would have had) features typical of Middle Eastern populations—dark hair, olive or brown skin, and dark eyes.
On the incompatibility of Islam with Western culture; ”Fortunately, most modern faiths have had some kind of reform or have at least dropped the more fanatical aspects of their religion to fit into a modern Western liberal democracy. However, there is one religion which has not, and is still just as backwards as it was before. Islam. Whereas Christianity had the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, which pioneered, liberal values of tolerance and secular thinking. Islam remains stuck in its past and is wholly incompatible with the values of the West. The West is a bastion of tolerance, technological and economic growth, scientific advancement, and increasingly progressive values. Whereas Islam is stagnant, insular, regressive, dogmatic and violent. The Middle East is a place that is bad for any free-thinking individual who is not Muslim, straight and male, and as we import these people into the West, our nations become increasingly illiberal. Islam is anathema to Western liberal democracy. Free speech is a value cherished in the West up until most recently, but the intolerant left aside, it was understood we live in a free country and you can say what you want. Even, Christians, who have perhaps the bloodiest past of all, accepted this… Read more »
Having just watched Lucy Connolly’s splendid interview with Dan Wooton, I am puzzled as to why all the Patriots of the West feel obliged to keep saying they aren’t “racist”, or “racist thugs”, or “far-right”, or “not racist, not racist, not racist”, as if being “racist” is a criminal act in itself!!!
It isn’t a criminal act, anywhere in the world. It is just normal, natural, universal tribalism, which has helped humanity survive for thousands of years.
Saying “You’re a racist!” is equivalent to saying “You’re human!”
As for “racist thug”, that word “thug” comes from this in the Etymology Dictionary:
“1810, “member of a gang of murderers and robbers in India who strangled their victims,” from Marathi thag, thak “cheat, swindler,” Hindi thag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga-s “cunning, fraudulent,” from sthagayati “(he) covers, conceals,” from PIE root *(s)teg- “to cover.””
“The thugs roamed about the country in bands of from 10 to 100, usually in the disguise of peddlers or pilgrims, gaining the confidence of other travelers, whom they strangled, when a favorable opportunity presented itself, with a handkerchief, an unwound turban, or a noosed cord. The shedding of blood was seldom resorted to. The motive of the thugs was not so much lust of plunder as a certain religious fanaticism. The bodies of their victims were hidden in graves dug with a consecrated pickax, and of their spoil one third was devoted to the goddess Kali, whom they worshiped. [Century Dictionary]”
The Thuggee Murder Gangs of India, including separate gangs of Muslims, Hindus & Sikhs, were finally suppressed by the British Army campaigns led by the heroic Englishman Major-General Sir William Henry Sleeman of Cornwall.
“Refugees are fleeing crime, not causing it”, which only a hard-core Lefty denialist would say. As I’ve said previously, if you were a genuine asylum seeker, grateful for the opportunity to live freely in a safe country, you’d nail the basics and adhere to the laws, respecting our cultures. I think many of these migrants are already criminals in their homelands and they should all be treated as possible criminals here, not left to roam freely as they please. This story was awful because it’s perfectly normal to cycle home after a night out here, but also because she rang the police to say she was being followed but before they could get to her he stabbed her in the neck and killed her. I’m just amazed they’ve stated he’s a migrant as they never normally do that; “An asylum seeker has been arrested for the suspected murder of 17-year-old Lisa, who is believed to have been fatally stabbed as she cycled home from a night out in Amsterdam in the early hours of Wednesday. At a press conference in Amsterdam, the head of public prosecution René de Beukelaer announced that a 22-year-old man, resident at COA asylum centre in the… Read more »
Geert Wilders would put an end to all these atrocities, but many people like yourself say they would refuse to vote for him, and don’t want him to be the Dutch Prime Minister.
RTSC
7 months ago
Two-Tier/Labour setting himself and his Party up against the people.
There will only be one winner here. He should ask Sunak.
Alan M
7 months ago
I heard someone yesterday saying that we should welcome them because they are escaping war, famine and persecution. They came from France.
Increasing the population of this country without limit will require additional water supplies by resorting to energy-hungry desalination, thus scuppering any chances of achieving “net zero”. What will the Climate Change Committee do about that?
Gezza England
7 months ago
The government is going to appeal the exclusion of the Home Office from the High Court decision as it was not party to the decision it cannot appeal it. The judge also ruled there can be no appeal on his ruling but that decision can be subject to appeal. The hotel owners are also going to appeal the blocking of an appeal. So lots of court action but none of these cases will rule on whether planning permission is required to use a hotel as a hostel for illegal immigrants. The government may not want to rush this as if it loses it is in big trouble.
It’s about culture not race. Culture is not defined by race.
The Establishment previously was successful at conflating race with culture so as to vilify and prosecute those who objected to cultural erasure as racist, but now the public are not buying it, won’t be intimidated, won’t be silenced.
“The migrants have been staying in homes of multiple occupation (HMO) – not council housing.”
We used to call such arrangements slums with multiple families sharing one lavatory.
Multiple occupation apartments and houses was also feature of Communist Russia.
Richard
7 months ago
If the hotels are closed there will be no central point of protest anymore. End of daily protests, problem disbursed and burried within local communties. No focal point for right wing action, victory for the left. So do the readers of this right wing paper actually want the hotels closed?
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Hate not Hope will have to increase their day rate if there continues to be an increase in Patriot protests.
Well this must be one hell of an exclusive and a very interesting watch. And she’s even meeting the Trump admin tomorrow! I just knew this would all blow up in Starmer’s face and Lucy will have the last laugh;
”BREAKING: Lucy Connolly reveals she was Keir Starmer’s political prisoner & is now planning legal action against the police, as she prepares to meet with Trump administration officials tomorrow to blow whistle on UK free speech crackdown.
Watch her Outspoken first interview.”
https://www.youtube.com/live/1lzi7ZslXnI
https://x.com/danwootton/status/1958916333296656884
I hope she’s well advised this time. Connoly was sentenced to 31 months prison and is out on licence after 40% of that time. If she can be found to have broken the terms of her licence she could be sent back to serve the other 60% of her sentence. (I do think there’d be serious trouble if she was sent back inside).
I hope they’ve joined the Free Speech Union.
Thanks for the link. I’m almost lost for words, it’s way, way worse than I thought possible.
1) They’ve got the Wrong Slogan: “Born in England, Live in England, Die in England” could be said by any Pakistani Muslim, African Birth Tourist or Third World Parasite.
It might be better to say something like “England, the Ancestral Homeland of the English”.
Or “Where were your ancestors 500 years ago? Mine were right here!”
2) Why do the Communist Thugs only ever demonstrate in response to British Patriots, and never organize their own separate protests?
3) Why do the police allow both groups to march at the same time, then complain that they haven’t enough police officers to cope, instead of telling them to protest at different times on DIFFERENT DAYS?
The “communists” are the government’s agents, and they are deployed only in order to attack and destroy our people.
England for the English.
It’s amazing how many MILLIONS OF PEOPLE hate England & the English, but choose to live in England!
… Pay human traffickers huge amounts of money to help them live in England.
… Prattle on about the Great Celtic Alliance Against the English,
but choose to live in England.
… Scream & shriek about how they are Oppressed by the White Englishman,
but choose to live in England, and bring their entire family with them.
Why is that?
They, like the Scot, hate England but like our money.
But the Scots & Germans & Russians & Poles & Dutch & Swedes & Spaniards, etc. are all our Ethnic European brethren, with a common Christian heritage, and as The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, we must stick together in order to survive. “No More Brother Wars” as some say.
Angelcynn – the people of England.
So-named by King Alfred Rex Angul-Saxonum.
King Alfred the Great is one of my heroes, especially after reading Justin Pollard’s biography of him, called “Alfred the Great: The Man Who Made England”.
That’s why I like Cotfordtags’ suggestion of the Wessex Flag as the Flag of England. The Golden Wyvern on the Wessex Flag bears a remarkable resemblance to the Chinese golden dragons. The Chinese depict dragons in a much more accurate way, in my view, because they honour dragons as powerful benevolent beings, and depict them in a much more friendly way. The Western depictions of dragons are much more ugly and fierce, like some horror movie. Not accurate at all.
Anglo-Saxon-Celt, Judeo-Christian heritage.
Christian heritage. There is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian”, as any honest Jewish rabbi will tell you. It is a term which was only invented a few decades ago for political purposes, which I only found out recently myself.
“JESUS WAS A BROWN-SKINNED, MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIALIST MIGRANT”
Where, just where, tell me where, do you start with that one?!
Good question.
I would be tempted by “So what?”.
Anyway one doubts that everyone using that slogan even believes in Jesus either as a historical figure and even less likely as the Son of God.
According to the Merriam Webster dictionary:
“The meaning of SOCIALISM is any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.”
Doesn’t seem to be reflected in any of the words in the New Testament… whereas according to Wikipedia:
“19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as “the soul of soulless conditions” or the “opium of the people”. According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress. In other words, religion continues to survive because of oppressive social conditions.”
Unless you are going to allow the ‘not the right kind of socialism’ excuse.
Born in Israel, Lived in Israel (parents moved to Egypt for a few years, then came back. Proper refugees from evil dictatorship), Died in Israel.
How about 2 Thessalonians 3:10:
““For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
I’m sure your average Socialist would agree with that 🙂
And how about Matthew 2:23 which relates the story that the Holy Family took temporary refuge in Egypt because Herod was killing first-born sons, but they returned to Israel when Herod had died and it was safe.
That’s a nice lesson for all those who have sought asylum in the UK: when it’s safe you GO BACK. The criminal migrants are not refugees, they’re economic migrants and should be immediately returned …. either to their own country or France.
https://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/2.htm
Ah yes, one of the many stories about the Nativity told to the Apostles by the Impostor calling herself “The Virgin Mary”, the Liar, the Baby Thief who stole Newborn Jesus from his mother Elizabeth and his twin brother John the Baptist at Ein Karem where they were born, then persuaded Herod to Massacre the Innocents, hoping that both Elizabeth and John the Baptist would be slaughtered in the melee, while the Impostor smuggled her Stolen Child Jesus away to Egypt to raise him there for seven years. Before she left, the Impostor Mary also ensured the death of Zacharias, who refused to tell Herod’s soldiers where his wife and son had gone, and was killed for it. When she brought seven-year-old Jesus back after the new Herod took the throne, she was angry to find out that Elizabeth and her other twin son John the Baptist were still alive and hiding in the wilderness. So she went to the new Herod, using her old Temple connections, and persuaded him to send soldiers with a pack of hounds into the wilderness to hunt down and kill Elizabeth and John. When Elizabeth knew that they could not escape from the hounds hunting… Read more »
Jesus was a practising Jew who was born, lived and died in the Roman province of Judea, so not an immigrant. He believed in individuality, not collectivism according to the gospel accounts, so not a “Socialist”.
Ethnically he was a Semite with (would have had) features typical of Middle Eastern populations—dark hair, olive or brown skin, and dark eyes.
Socialists are atheists.
wasn’t he jew? Migrant?
On the incompatibility of Islam with Western culture; ”Fortunately, most modern faiths have had some kind of reform or have at least dropped the more fanatical aspects of their religion to fit into a modern Western liberal democracy. However, there is one religion which has not, and is still just as backwards as it was before. Islam. Whereas Christianity had the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, which pioneered, liberal values of tolerance and secular thinking. Islam remains stuck in its past and is wholly incompatible with the values of the West. The West is a bastion of tolerance, technological and economic growth, scientific advancement, and increasingly progressive values. Whereas Islam is stagnant, insular, regressive, dogmatic and violent. The Middle East is a place that is bad for any free-thinking individual who is not Muslim, straight and male, and as we import these people into the West, our nations become increasingly illiberal. Islam is anathema to Western liberal democracy. Free speech is a value cherished in the West up until most recently, but the intolerant left aside, it was understood we live in a free country and you can say what you want. Even, Christians, who have perhaps the bloodiest past of all, accepted this… Read more »
Islam is not compatible with living in England.
As the Norwegian blogger Fjordman once said,
“Islam must be expelled from the West.”
https://youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?si=hFz36dckf-jzA2v0
I think we know who will be arrtested and who will be escorted by police to get a cup of tea.
Who are these morons with their refugees welcome signs?
They should all be forced to take at least 2 illegals home with them. No excuses allowed. You’re so keen on them YOU live with them.
Fantastic idea! Fair’s fair.
https://youtu.be/va6nPu-1auE?si=stL3-7CxMmo1QWWB
Nar na nar!
ENGLAND! FOREVER!
Having just watched Lucy Connolly’s splendid interview with Dan Wooton, I am puzzled as to why all the Patriots of the West feel obliged to keep saying they aren’t “racist”, or “racist thugs”, or “far-right”, or “not racist, not racist, not racist”, as if being “racist” is a criminal act in itself!!!
It isn’t a criminal act, anywhere in the world. It is just normal, natural, universal tribalism, which has helped humanity survive for thousands of years.
Saying “You’re a racist!” is equivalent to saying “You’re human!”
As for “racist thug”, that word “thug” comes from this in the Etymology Dictionary:
“1810, “member of a gang of murderers and robbers in India who strangled their victims,” from Marathi thag, thak “cheat, swindler,” Hindi thag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga-s “cunning, fraudulent,” from sthagayati “(he) covers, conceals,” from PIE root *(s)teg- “to cover.””
“The thugs roamed about the country in bands of from 10 to 100, usually in the disguise of peddlers or pilgrims, gaining the confidence of other travelers, whom they strangled, when a favorable opportunity presented itself, with a handkerchief, an unwound turban, or a noosed cord. The shedding of blood was seldom resorted to. The motive of the thugs was not so much lust of plunder as a certain religious fanaticism. The bodies of their victims were hidden in graves dug with a consecrated pickax, and of their spoil one third was devoted to the goddess Kali, whom they worshiped. [Century Dictionary]”
Search ‘thug’ on etymonline
The Thuggee Murder Gangs of India, including separate gangs of Muslims, Hindus & Sikhs, were finally suppressed by the British Army campaigns led by the heroic Englishman Major-General Sir William Henry Sleeman of Cornwall.
“Refugees are fleeing crime, not causing it”, which only a hard-core Lefty denialist would say. As I’ve said previously, if you were a genuine asylum seeker, grateful for the opportunity to live freely in a safe country, you’d nail the basics and adhere to the laws, respecting our cultures. I think many of these migrants are already criminals in their homelands and they should all be treated as possible criminals here, not left to roam freely as they please. This story was awful because it’s perfectly normal to cycle home after a night out here, but also because she rang the police to say she was being followed but before they could get to her he stabbed her in the neck and killed her. I’m just amazed they’ve stated he’s a migrant as they never normally do that; “An asylum seeker has been arrested for the suspected murder of 17-year-old Lisa, who is believed to have been fatally stabbed as she cycled home from a night out in Amsterdam in the early hours of Wednesday. At a press conference in Amsterdam, the head of public prosecution René de Beukelaer announced that a 22-year-old man, resident at COA asylum centre in the… Read more »
Geert Wilders would put an end to all these atrocities, but many people like yourself say they would refuse to vote for him, and don’t want him to be the Dutch Prime Minister.
Two-Tier/Labour setting himself and his Party up against the people.
There will only be one winner here. He should ask Sunak.
I heard someone yesterday saying that we should welcome them because they are escaping war, famine and persecution. They came from France.
Not France. ‘War-torn France’
Increasing the population of this country without limit will require additional water supplies by resorting to energy-hungry desalination, thus scuppering any chances of achieving “net zero”. What will the Climate Change Committee do about that?
The government is going to appeal the exclusion of the Home Office from the High Court decision as it was not party to the decision it cannot appeal it. The judge also ruled there can be no appeal on his ruling but that decision can be subject to appeal. The hotel owners are also going to appeal the blocking of an appeal. So lots of court action but none of these cases will rule on whether planning permission is required to use a hotel as a hostel for illegal immigrants. The government may not want to rush this as if it loses it is in big trouble.
It’s about culture not race. Culture is not defined by race.
The Establishment previously was successful at conflating race with culture so as to vilify and prosecute those who objected to cultural erasure as racist, but now the public are not buying it, won’t be intimidated, won’t be silenced.
“The migrants have been staying in homes of multiple occupation (HMO) – not council housing.”
We used to call such arrangements slums with multiple families sharing one lavatory.
Multiple occupation apartments and houses was also feature of Communist Russia.
If the hotels are closed there will be no central point of protest anymore. End of daily protests, problem disbursed and burried within local communties. No focal point for right wing action, victory for the left. So do the readers of this right wing paper actually want the hotels closed?
“Right Wing” just means “Conservative” in the English dictionary.
“Far-Right” just means “Very Conservative”.
I don’t recall anyone at the Free Speech Union or the Daily Sceptic ever binding themselves to a particular political party viewpoint. Do you?