Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
Anti-immigration protesters gathered outside a Portsmouth hotel were forced to cancel their demonstration after discovering the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team rather than a group of asylum seekers were staying there.
Portsmouth had been the site of a large protest on Sunday following the arrival of a large dinghy containing an estimated 140 asylum seekers at the city’s Eastney harbour. A black-clad vigilante group attempted to block the streets around the port to stop the arrivals from leaving the
A spokesperson for the prime minister, Andy Burnham, condemned the demonstrators’ “intimidating and thuggish behaviour”, while Burnham pledged to stop the “politics of poison seeping into our streets”. That protest ended in the early hours of Monday morning after police obtained a dispersal order and threatened arrests.
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who didn’t see this racist crap coming?