The live-streamed call-to-arms that brought hundreds to Portsmouth

“Call everyone you know,” Daniel Thomas, a hard-Right activist, shouted to his YouTube followers as he ran towards a small beach just outside Portsmouth where dozens of migrants were about to be brought ashore.

Tensions had been running high across the south coast throughout the day after reports that a “mega-dinghy”, carrying 120, was making its way across the Channel, from a Normandy location previously unused by people smugglers.

Shortly after 3pm on Sunday, Portsmouth locals began posting videos in Facebook groups showing two RNLI boats carrying dozens of young men towards Eastney ferry landing.

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19 comments
  1. There's going to be a lot more of this unless the government gets serious about controlling our borders. It's all that's left

  2. Power to the People. Processing tents, clothes, coaches etc all magically appeared on Eastney Beach. It is the French and British Governments allowing this to happen, thousands of illegal scroungers, invading the British Isles. Third world mentality people committing savage acts on a daily basis, all paid for by the British tax payer ?

  3. The power to do this is growing. More and more are waking right up.
    And that was late on a Sunday evening. If that was Friday or Saturday night, there would have been many more show up at short notice.
    This will only grow fast now. About time.

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