{"id":36045,"date":"2026-05-14T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:14:36","slug":"far-right-oxfordshire-group-to-protest-alongside-tommy-robinson-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36045\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Oxfordshire group to protest alongside Tommy Robinson in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Oxfordshire far-right group is set to protest alongside Tommy Robinson in London this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8216;Raise the Colours Oxfordshire&#8217; is one of many right wing groups attending this Saturday&#8217;s protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A &#8220;Unite the Kingdom, Unite the West&#8221; rally, publicly supported by Tommy Robinson, is scheduled to proceed through the capital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a speech on Monday morning, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that his Labour government will block far-right agitators from travelling to Britain for the &#8216;Unite the Kingdom protest due to take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a Facebook post the group declared their involvement in the protests inviting other far-right Oxfordshire residents to join them in London and &#8216;connect and walk together&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE: Union criticised for inviting Sudanese prime minister to speak in Oxford<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In March, the group were issued with a legal notice by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk?ref=au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Oxfordshire County Council;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oxfordshire County Council&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oxfordshire County Council<\/a> to stop putting England flags up across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite this legal notice, the group continue to replace flags taken down by the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group claim on social media to have overnight &#8216;patrols&#8217; to protect flags put up, in which they also claim to have &#8216;in reserve&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In one Facebook post, active member Trudy Wells, said: &#8220;Every area that the council took down last night will be back up by lunchtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One active member of the group, who wishes to stay anonymous, said: &#8220;There are many who will be making the trip to London on Saturday for another great day out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post on Facebook last week the group appeared to celebrate the Reform Party &#8216;results&#8217; of the local elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes after Reform won no seats in Oxford City Council, and no majority on any district councils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oxfordshire far-right group is set to protest alongside Tommy Robinson in London this weekend. &#8216;Raise the Colours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[94,27,1749,16776,34,1723],"class_list":{"0":"post-36045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-keir-starmer","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-oxfordshire","11":"tag-oxfordshire-county-council","12":"tag-protest","13":"tag-tommy-robinson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116572170639537355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}