Masked black-clad protesters block Port of Dover roads
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate News5Double standard policing. Climate protestors trying to save our lives? Arrested before even blocking traffic. Fascists trying to burn us all down? Nothing @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @davidrvetter.bsky.social
Jane 🏊♀️🚴🏻🏃♀️🌻3From now on all my protest signs will include the words "legitimate concerns"
Paul Carnahan2I'm sure all the 'two-tier policing' guys will have plenty to say about this...
Tony Tagliatelle1We should all stop pretending that Andy Burnham, for all that he doesn't wear the badge and does remember Britpop, is anything but just another fascist.
We have reached the fascist militia stage of mainstreaming and this emboldening is a direct consequence of mainstream elite treating far-right politics as "legitimate grievance" rather than tackling them head on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Miles12"...when it's not clear why they're there..." It's very clear why they're there: to frighten and intimidate, or to "terrorise", if you will
Lady Macbeth9The dangerous bit isn’t just the balaclavas. It’s how quickly ‘masked men in black blocking a major port’ gets translated into ‘legitimate grievance’. That euphemism is doing a hell of a lot of work.
Jelmer Evers4Same thing happening in the Netherlands. Dutch media is not good (putting it nicely)
joczechowska.bsky.social3Treat them like they would treat Just Stop Oil
David Kuhne2‘A group called Patriot Platform, which styles itself as having “a fierce love for our homeland”’ Homeland is a Nazi word. It’s bad when Americans use it. It’s bad when cowardly masked British thugs use it
Person 232I don't often find myself sympathising with the police, but I'd imagine negotiating with people who've no actual thoughts will be immensely taxing.
So Mayer50Also note the bit of this article where the Guardian simply allow the Reform spokesfascist to UNCHALLENGED make a spurious slide from "Women in town feel threatened by this group of masked fascists" to an equivalence that makes refugees responsible for both the threat AND the protest against them.
Richy Craven7Ah yes, the famous white plaintiffs of Dover.
Where Seagulls Dare4All I'm saying is, the kindly Vladimir Ilyich would know what to do.
Luke Parks2Good thing they're not elderly vicars holding placards or they'd be looking at 14 years inside.
Presumably they will all be charged with terrorism offences. Or is that just for pro-Palestinians and climate protestors? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Carlton Reid30Police are just “engaging” with Nazis? Yesterday police raided the home of 84-year-old climate protestor and retired priest Reverend Sue Parfitt. www.facebook.com/JustStopOil/...
Nick Langley4This is Kent remember. From my experience of opposing NF marches in the 1970s, the police would have been lined up beside them, using their truncheons against the counter-protest.
