Today, a group of activists decided to barricade a bus that was supposed to be transporting asylum seekers from a hotel in Peckham in London to the Bibby Stockholm.
They surrounded the vehicle, slashed its tyres and wedged bikes underneath.
The atmosphere was incredibly volatile and at times it was violent.
One thing that you’ll note is that despite the criminal damage that had taken place, the aggressive environment and the massive disruption that this was causing, there didn’t appear to be any police in riot gear, no horses, no real police action to speak of. But then things did escalate.
Patrick Christys details Protester attack on GB News staff
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So as we were filming there, a man came up behind my cameraman and slapped him on the back of the head, knocking his glasses off as well.
The police did not arrest that man. It appears that he got away.
Thankfully, my cameraman is fine and he was able to carry on filming, as more activists arrived and more police attended that scene as well.
So the Home Secretary tweeted this whilst I was on the scene, actually saying: “Housing markets and hotels cost the British taxpayer millions. We will not allow this small group of students posing for social media to deter us from doing this right for the British public.”
Unfortunately for Cleverly, though, the fact is that that small group of students did deter him from doing what’s right for this country.
And the fact is that this incident was policed completely differently from the way that the Saint George’s Day event was recently. It’s mob rule, isn’t it?
Now, I’ve been surprised by some of the reporting on this. The London Evening Standard said, “video taken on Thursday morning showed an apparently peaceful protest, with activists surrounding the coach with linked arms chanting say it loud, say it clear. Refugees are welcome here”.
Yeah, it also showed a lot of the stuff that I’ve just shown you that I didn’t hear. There was a report to that from the Guardian, who came over and said that he’d witnessed the assault on my cameraman and said that he thought it was awful. That incident has yet to make it into any Guardian articles that I’ve seen.
Anyway, the cameraman in question managed to get footage of the man who actually assaulted him.
Hopefully, he can be identified and actually brought to justice. That footage was just by coincidence, taken a little bit before the incident itself actually happened.
Now, in case you are wondering, the bus has now left the scene without any asylum seekers on board, and I think it’s fair to suggest that maybe the mob won.
