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Far-Right Protests Fizzle Out as Tens of Thousands of Brits Crowd Streets to Silence The VIOLENT Rioters

THUGS who desperately try to save face by pretending '100 demo' plans were deliberate LIES to waste police time

UK Police Prepare For Far-Right Rallies With Biggest Mobilisation Since 2011 Riots. Over 100 Police Injured

MailOnline 8 AUG 2024






UK Riots: Thousands of Counter-Protesters Crowd Out & BLOCK Planned Far-Right Rallies





About 6,000 riot-trained officers will be on duty across the country, with worst disorder expected in north of England..






















Counter-protesters in Walthamstow - some of whom appear to be wearing stab vests






Far-right promises to turn up at immigration centres at 8pm vanished into thin air. The hate mobs were seemingly cowed by a swell of anti-racist protesters who turned out in force in cities across the UK - and by drizzly weather that hit southern parts of England on Wednesday night.

Undeterred, red-faced would-be protesters have taken to social media to row back on their claims - and now claim there was never a plan to target refugee centres in order to waste police time.

Thousands of anti-racist protesters have outnumbered far-right antagonists on the streets of Britain in a show of love over hate - as those behind gatherings targeting immigration centres tried to backpedal on the gatherings ever being planned.

Around 100 hate-fuelled protests were planned across the country tonight, many of which were planned in now-deleted far-right groups on apps such as Telegram, with police deployed in their biggest mobilisation of resources since the 2011 riots.

Thugs had been using now-banned channels on the app to threaten the lives of anti-racism campaigners, make sick slurs and exchange tips on how to 'hood up'. But their promises to turn up at immigration centres at 8pm vanished into thin air.

The hate mobs were seemingly cowed by a swell of up to 25,000 anti-racist activists who turned out in force in cities across the UK - and by drizzly weather that hit southern parts of England on Wednesday night.

Counter-protesters turned out in their thousands in several UK cities - outnumbering 'anti-immigration' protesters when they bothered to turn up - in order to send the clear message that Britain does not welcome hate.

Undeterred, red-faced would-be protesters have taken to social media to row back on their claims - and now claim there was never a plan to target refugee centres in order to waste police time.

But the Telegram group responsible for sharing an alleged hit list of refugee centres for thugs to target was taken down by the typically immovable team behind the encrypted messaging app - who said it breached their rules on inciting violence.

The demos came as scores of arrests and dozens of convictions were sealed in rapid time, following more than a week of unrest after three young girls were killed at a dance class in Southport on 29 July.


Police have also vowed to go after those sharing hate and inciting unrest online as:

GP and hospital appointments are cancelled while pubs and shops board up;
Protesters are hauled before the courts once again with 140 now charged;
Police forces across England mobilise 6,000 riot officers amid more protests;
A pubgoer attacked by a masked mob of Muslims in Birmingham suffered a torn liver
Footfall has dropped in UK high streets after shops were torched in the riots.






Bottles were thrown at police and objects dragged into the road after around 50 people gathered in the south London borough - but officers said it was 'pure anti-social behaviour' not linked to the protests.

Smaller groups of anti-racism protesters were gathered in backstreets in Sheffield, away from the main counter-demo.

One woman, whose face was obscured, said: ‘We’ve done a good job of scaring them away.’

In Accrington, pubgoers were seen embracing a group of Muslims walking past shortly before dusk fell. But the tension soon mounted as protesters holding ‘Stand Up To Racism’ placards faced off with a group chanting ‘stop the boats’.

Dozens of police rushed in to stop them getting close as they marched towards each other.

And around 200 counter-protesters gathered outside an immigration lawyer's office in Oldham as far-right agitators failed to turn up.

Four police riot vans guarded the area on the outskirts of the Greater Manchester town ahead of the proposed 8pm far-right protests.

Taxi driver Ali Shah, 43, said: 'It doesn't look like the far right are going to show. Maybe they've been put off by how many people are here.'





A counter-protester holds a sign that reads: 'When hate is loud, love must be louder' during a protest in Brentford, west London






Shops board up their windows today amid fears over planned demonstrations