{"id":649179,"date":"2026-06-20T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:59:08","slug":"hundreds-turn-out-to-counter-birmingham-britain-first-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649179\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds turn out to counter Birmingham Britain First demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At one point, a small group of counter-protesters had attempted to break police lines, said the force. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were kept back and reminded that we are keeping the groups apart in the interests of public safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flag-carrying Britain First supporters were seen letting off smoke flares, and chanting anti-government messages before being addressed on a stage by the group&#8217;s leader, Paul Golding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;march for remigration&#8221; was calling for &#8220;mass deportations of foreigners,&#8221; he told the crowd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, said the group was not welcome in the city, saying residents did not share their &#8220;divisive and dangerous rhetoric&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one point, a small group of counter-protesters had attempted to break police lines, said the force. &#8220;They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}