{"id":760854,"date":"2026-09-05T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:18:13","slug":"port-of-dover-delays-disruption-as-masked-stop-the-boats-protesters-block-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760854\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked &#8216;stop the boats&#8217; protesters block roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I was there for three hours &#8211; it was absolute chaos&#8217;published at 14:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:00 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8de1622b-968a-4b64-bf38-75ff48894f2b.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Andr\u00e9e Massiah<br \/>BBC Your Voice<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A London tour guide says he was at the port to meet a group of tourists at Dover cruise terminal when &#8220;hooded protesters arrived en masse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rafael Pittman says the tour group were unable to disembark and he was unable to enter the terminal as it was blocked by freight trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He describes seeing the protesters heading towards the cruise terminal followed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They looked quite frightening, but I approached them and when I spoke to them, they were friendly-ish,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They told me they were protesting against illegal immigration, and I passed on the information to the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was no violence&#8230;as far as I could see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was there for three hours, and it was absolute chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A purple banner displays the words 'your voice'\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d7d4648c-c79f-44f5-a126-7ec8de3b44a9.png.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"316\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was there for three hours &#8211; it was absolute chaos&#8217;published at 14:00 BST 14:00 BST Andr\u00e9e MassiahBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760854","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\/760854","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=760854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}