London anti-immigration protest planned as 'patriots' urged to gather in Trafalgar Square
Anti-immigration protesters are due to gather in Trafalgar Square next weekend according to a poster circulating on social media. The protest is due to happen on Saturday, September 28, from 1pm and the poster ominously tells participants to "Bring duct tape + flags!"
It also encourages people, referred to on the poster as 'patriots', to gather at local government buildings, not just in London but across the UK. The Met Police are 'aware of the event', a spokesperson told MyLondon. When asked what steps Scotland Yard would take to maintain law and order at the events they said there would be a 'proportionate policing plan in place'.
More details may be released next week about the Met's plan to deal with the protest. They also said that it could prompt them to enforce conditions on the marches which has been done at many similar events in the past.
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This usually comes in the form of keeping protests to a certain designated area and rules about when crowds must disband under the Public Order Act. At the end of July and beginning of August, there were far-right anti-immigration across the country, triggered by the Southport mass stabbings in which three children were killed. Disinformation around the nationality of the person alleged to be responsible fuelled a tidal wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, which the government believed may have been deliberately stoked by hostile governments intending to cause unrest in the UK.
Following this, there were further anti-immigration demonstrations proposed at several immigration centres across the UK, several being in London. Instead of them gaining any support, thousands of anti-racist counter-protestors showed up instead with little to no right-wing presence to be seen in the capital nor many other towns and cities in the country.
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