{"id":9939,"date":"2025-07-20T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9939\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:36:07","slug":"anti-immigration-protest-descends-on-dovers-seafront-as-hundreds-of-union-jacks-flown-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/9939\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-immigration protest descends on Dover’s seafront as hundreds of Union Jacks flown | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sea of Union Jack and England flags took over Dover\u2019s seafront on Saturday for the \u201cGreat British National Protest\u201d. Swathes of demonstrators took over the town in Kent on the first weekend of the summer holidays, holding up placards which read: \u201cAsylum frauds out\u201d, \u201cNot racist, Not far-right, Not being listened to!\u201d and \u201cStop the boats now!\u201d<\/p>\n

The group of patriotic-protesters chose the location where many small boats first touch British soil<\/a> to express their frustration with the soaring arrivals of illegal Channel-migrants<\/a>. Numerous flags and banners were waved high into the sky, as chants of \u201cstop the boats\u201d and \u201cKeir Starmer<\/a>\u2019s a w*****\u201d could be heard.<\/p>\n

People gathered in a circle on the beachfront while different speakers took turns to share their personal stories, as well as their grievances with the Labour government.<\/p>\n

A number of police vehicles were present at the demonstration, with officers scattered around the town.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman told KentOnline<\/a>: \u201cKent Police is aware of a planned protest expected in Dover on Saturday, July 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe force is liaising with local partner agencies and those involved in the event have been reminded of their obligations to ensure the protest remains peaceful, lawful and that disruption to the local area is kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers will be monitoring the situation and sufficient resources will be in place to deliver a proportionate police response.\u201d<\/p>\n

The demonstration had been planned for months, which was linked to other \u201cGreat British National Protests\u201d held across the country this year.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the event, the protest group posted on X: \u201cI have decided that phase 3 is going to be very different. We are on the brink of civil-war. The recent announcements involving the cover ups of the ‘Afghan refugees’<\/a> have only exacerbated things.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started this, I promised to up the anti. I promised to hold the government to account. Countless protests don\u2019t do this. Dover beach will go ahead this Saturday at 12pm.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protest also attracted one self-proclaimed far-right protester who has been pictured holding the flag of Patriotic Alternative – a party led by ex-BNP official Mark Collette.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a unite the right demo but there are a number of issues – we\u2019re all concerned citizens. We all come here together, my platform will be different to the next person but not too different,\u201d Jason Withey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sea of Union Jack and England flags took over Dover\u2019s seafront on Saturday for the \u201cGreat British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6394,6396,6393,287,59,57,58,2795,50,3283,56,6395,54,55],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-anti-immigration","tag-channel-migrants","tag-dover-protest","tag-english-channel-migrant-crossings","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-uk","tag-union-jack","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","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=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}