If Brighton can protest peacefully so can the

You may not be aware, but I think it was 200 child refugees went missing from Brighton and Hove mostly girls, believed trafficked. We have our share of asylum seekers, illegal migrants etc

They are from Brighton. They're part of Antifa Brgton and TLF Brght*n (trying to avoid this thread being googled by them). Their social media pages contain some very unpleasant posts about women who dare try to speak out about single-sex spaces, or anyone else they disagree with. In my opinion, they are motivated by the same things the far-right are motivated by - primarily hatred and anger.

Exactly! The same goes for 'posh' Sussex towns Eastbourne and Hastings. Higher cost of living yet lower wages, underemployment is rife, as is homelessness. Sussex has it's share of oversaturated housing and job markets.

All these middle class folk who live in leafy suburbs welcoming immigrants, etc. They don’t have to deal with the real life consequences.

Totally agree. I grew up in an ethnically diverse and deprived area. I remember walking to school past the local Asian barber shop and being sexually harassed by the men. My mum went to speak with them and they just laughed at her. The police were called eventually.

TBH after last night with the against rascim protesters outnumbered them and all the ones who are being charged I think most won't bother. The one's in Blackpool last night on the roundabout looked pathetic.Don't know about anywhere else but it's wet and windy here and not very warm. So if it's like that anywhere else most should stay away.🥰

Exactly. I also live in Croydon and feel the same way.

Brighton has areas which are every bit as deprived as some parts of the north and midlands. Very much a place of two cities, so to speak.

That makes more sense. Thanks.

I work in Brighton.
There is a significant hard left violent 'Antifa' type presence and they will turn out for any cause that clashes with their leftist identity politics.

But how can you save the lives of children if you don't burn down a library and loot a Shoezone?

Agree. Why is it that TRAs caused such a fuss in Brighton when Kelly Jay Kean and Let Women Speak came? That was not civilised in the least bit and the women, and their desire to speak for female only spaces, were drowned out. Possibly the demonstrators were not from Brighton?

so do I.
obviously the posters saying this, just visit the lanes and seafront.

of course all people who live in Brighton are well off.
you obviously don't know the place.

Very well put.

The reason why Brighton can do this when so many other places cannot is that on the whole, Brighton is an affluent, pleasant place to be, people who live there are educated and privileged and have access to a variety of cultural and enriching experiences.

To put it bluntly, they don't experience a lot of the issue that a lot of other places do - both in terms of the right wing extremism AND mass immigration into communities, which inevitably changes the culture and feel of a place, and can make people feel threatened if people aren't given the support they need to integrate into communities.

To compare Brighton with areas of socioeconomic disadvantage/ deprivation, riddled with issues and segregation - you are not comparing like for like.

Of course Brighton can do this - people there are perfectly set up to be able to have the resilience and emotional resources to respond to things in a healthy way - but also, the issues they are responding to in Brighton are not as bad as they are elsewhere.

Last night the Argus were reporting one of the counter protesters had been arrested, along with a photo, which was pretty obviously a counter protester. However today they have amended it to ‘it was not clear’.

Also from the Argus today:

Half a dozen men were surrounded by Sussex Police last night after anti-immigration protesters set out to target a lawyer's office in Queens Road in Brighton.
The men were confined to a small space outside the BBC's office surrounded on all sides by activists, many wearing balaclavas or face coverings, who wanted to show they were not welcome.
Two of the five men separated from the crowd by Sussex Police have now said they were not protesters.
A man, who was wearing a white and green top, said he and his friend wearing a blue T-shirt "had nothing to do with any of the others standing by us".
He added: "The fact that police had surrounded us was because a group of black-hooded track-suited men with face masks kicked one of us. Which then escalated into the old school playground of ‘fight fight’.
"We were not arrested."

What about if you live in Croydon? Where you work, shop, go to school and spend your entire life mixing with people from all cultures?

Just because it wasn't a formal demonstration by a majority white middle-class demographic, that doesn't take away from the mix of people ready to make it clear that a bunch of racist twats would not be welcomed.

@WeAreManyUArefew
So if we can do it, without racist language,
Also You
gammon-faced racists

Let yourself down there.

But then would this be the same group that shouted abuse at women earlier in the year when the women had a non violent protest.

Similar happened here in Southampton last night.

50 Far Right "protesters", over 400 opposing them. 2 arrests, zero damage caused.

I've seen footage and the 50 twats look a bit.......embarrassed

I am glad Brighton was peaceful. Wish that had been the case when Let Women Speak was held there - that was not peaceful at all.

I live in the LB Croydon. We have our issues. It's also the location of the Home Office processing centre, Lunar House. I don't blame people of colour for the problems in London, or anywhere else. Stop excusing racists thugs.

I’m an honorary Brighton person - I have always had family there, and have lived and worked there in the past. I was there this last weekend in fact.

I was so proud of Brighton when I saw this!

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