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Does anyone know what's going on in Dover?

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YourWatermelonship · 05/09/2026 11:09

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmwyzxlzxpzgt
Hundreds of masked protesters dressed in black disrupting Dover port.

They bear an unfortunate resemblance to the blackshirts

Port of Dover delays: Miles of traffic as protesters block roads

Traffic is being stopped from going in and out of the port because of a demonstration by a large group of masked protesters, with ferry services operating with some delay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmwyzxlzxpzgt

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YourWatermelonship · 05/09/2026 13:12

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2026 12:36

Tommy Robinson's right hand man Danny Tommo recently has launched this group, a self-professed Christian “army of patriots” designed to “take control of the United Kingdom”

The are live streaming and TR is promoting it.

We need a gobsmacked reaction button!

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itsgettingweird · 05/09/2026 13:12

Yep. Trying to stop the boats.

Agree we’re not allowed to call them stupid - even though they’re stopping ferries going out and not the boats they mean coming in!

itsgettingweird · 05/09/2026 13:13

This is when I wish we used water cannons!

Plenty of water nearby!

Tunaboona · 05/09/2026 13:14

I feel for those poor people on the boats. Imagine getting to England, thinking it's the promised land, and then realising what a shithole Dover is.

bababamama · 05/09/2026 13:15

being disruptive idiots basically. If you want to stop the boats try protesting outside the embassies of repressive and disfunctional regimes whose actions drive their populations to flee and make dangerous expensive journeys using people traffickers to try and get a better life. Solve the problems in other parts of the world and people wouldn’t be trying to get here!

viques · 05/09/2026 13:15

PerkingFaintly · 05/09/2026 13:09

The masked men – still masked – have now left Dover.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmwyzxlzxpzgt?post=asset%3A77282010-c684-493c-be15-d86363881394#post
12:59
Protesters board train from Dover to Ramsgate
I'm still on Platform 1 at Dover Priory station and just witnessed at least 100 people boarding a train to Ramsgate. They were all dressed in black and wore black balaclavas.
When the train arrived, they got on board and it was completely full leaving the station. One of the group shouted "we are all leaving together, no-one will be left behind".
I also saw some other people trying to board the train but they couldn’t and they stood back to let the people dressed in black board.
All the protesters have left now from Dover Priory station.

Good to see they are all staying hydrated. Wouldn’t want anyone to feel faint or wobbly under their woolly hats.

likelysuspect · 05/09/2026 13:17

Why are they going to Ramsgate off all places?

St Marys bay near Dover is where the boats actually arrive in any case.

Contain4 · 05/09/2026 13:19

NoisyHiker · 05/09/2026 12:43

Erm... I'm afraid those are the 'wrong' boats chaps.

Unless they are just mad at sea transportation in general?

There have been multiple verbal attacks towards the RLNI because they’re ’saving lives of immigrants’ - even though they save multiple British people’s lives every day 🤦‍♀️

I think they must just be mad at anything in the sea.

SapphireSeptember · 05/09/2026 13:19

Bunch of wankers! (There's my highly intellectual contribution to the thread. 😅)

NoNameNoOne · 05/09/2026 13:20

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2026 13:03

If they would show the numbers, people could see they are falling

Now that would help with getting the facts out.

I didn't say I agreed with it. I just said that's what's on Instagram.

Contain4 · 05/09/2026 13:22

Just a thought - if they genuinely think this is going to help ‘stop the boats’ - then perhaps they should do this as a FT job in order to receive their benefits.

I wonder how many will still want to do it if they think that have to actually work and do something productive instead of criminal.

Contain4 · 05/09/2026 13:25

NoNameNoOne · 05/09/2026 12:57

I believe from looking on Instagram it's a group of people trying to "show numbers" in response to migrants entering the UK. The caption reads Protect Our Country! And more Importantly our women and children. This is our warning. That's just a direct quote from it for anyone that cannot view it.

It’s always to protect our women and children isn’t it.

How ironic when the majority of women can’t stand these men (which is why we’re not standing alongside them) and all of these men hate women.

This is the exact reason they’re hiding their faces because people will be able to identify them and their crimes, most likely of which are against women and children.

YourWatermelonship · 05/09/2026 13:27

PerkingFaintly · 05/09/2026 13:09

The masked men – still masked – have now left Dover.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmwyzxlzxpzgt?post=asset%3A77282010-c684-493c-be15-d86363881394#post
12:59
Protesters board train from Dover to Ramsgate
I'm still on Platform 1 at Dover Priory station and just witnessed at least 100 people boarding a train to Ramsgate. They were all dressed in black and wore black balaclavas.
When the train arrived, they got on board and it was completely full leaving the station. One of the group shouted "we are all leaving together, no-one will be left behind".
I also saw some other people trying to board the train but they couldn’t and they stood back to let the people dressed in black board.
All the protesters have left now from Dover Priory station.

Ugh that image! A large group of masked men dressed in black looks extremely intimidating. Imagine being in a car with your kids on your way to / from the ferry and being surrounded by them, not knowing who they are or what they are going to do.

Apart from that, if they got on the train, does it mean they weren't arrested on the spot? Did they all pay for their tickets and board in an orderly manner, sitting in their reserved seats? Will police be waiting for them at Ramsgate station? So many questions

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Middletoleft · 05/09/2026 13:27

crackofdoom · 05/09/2026 11:50

If I lived in the area I'd be encouraging people to put their brightest coloured clothes on and have a mini festival in the road next to them, with deliberately silly music like the Birdy Song, and dance the conga around the twats.

God yes. Baby shark on big speakers on repeat!

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2026 13:29

iloveanearlynight · 05/09/2026 13:06

This has come about because of the failure to stop the flood of illegal migrants. Many people are desperate about what is being allowed to happen in Britain. They are sick of being ignored and protests like this will only happen more. Our country is changing beyond recognition.

What has changed beyond recognition?

Roundabouts and lampposts?

Dappy777 · 05/09/2026 13:31

pointythings · 05/09/2026 11:47

They're trying to stop the boats, not realising that these are the wrong boats. Pretty typical of the Reform/Restore demographic. But we aren't allowed to call them stupid. I hope they're treated in the same way that the XR/Just Stop Oil lot were treated - arrest, sentence, jail.

And what about the people who block the deportation of illegal immigrants? For example, campaigners fought to stop the deportation of Anicet Mayela and won. No doubt they high-fived and felt all smug and morally superior. He is now in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl. And he's just one example.

The vast majority of these so-called 'refugees' are arrogant young men. And in many cases the only thing they are fleeing is the police in their home country.

Wednesday505 · 05/09/2026 13:32

Usual scum, they look and act like a terrorist organisation, so where are the armed police etc.

Chrysanthemumsinpots · 05/09/2026 13:32

DuncinToffee · 05/09/2026 12:30

Any examples?

here

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DuncinToffee · 05/09/2026 13:35

Chrysanthemumsinpots · 05/09/2026 13:32

here

Not quite the same uniform as the black clothes, hoods and balaclavas.

ColinOfficeTrolley · 05/09/2026 13:38

A large group of masked men dressed in black looks extremely intimidating. Imagine being in a car with your kids on your way to / from the ferry and being surrounded by them, not knowing who they are or what they are going to do

B b but they're protecting wimmen and kidz

olivepicanto · 05/09/2026 13:38

iloveanearlynight · 05/09/2026 13:06

This has come about because of the failure to stop the flood of illegal migrants. Many people are desperate about what is being allowed to happen in Britain. They are sick of being ignored and protests like this will only happen more. Our country is changing beyond recognition.

So you support these masked men?

SmallDFartyCarNRG · 05/09/2026 13:38

Tommy Robinson and chums being "alpha" in the way the SS used to...
They think we feel safer with these idiots hanging about in balaclavas - much as the Taliban did.

Whoopiedooo · 05/09/2026 13:41

Am I very very behind the times, or isn't it an offence to intentionally block the highway or people's access to it (it should be) and also wasn't there a law limiting the number of people gathered in public without prior permission on pain of instant arrest (not that I agree with that one, as I think the number was 3 people)?

Contain4 · 05/09/2026 13:41

iloveanearlynight · 05/09/2026 13:06

This has come about because of the failure to stop the flood of illegal migrants. Many people are desperate about what is being allowed to happen in Britain. They are sick of being ignored and protests like this will only happen more. Our country is changing beyond recognition.

How exactly is this helping solve the issue of illegal immigration?

Stop acting so desperate.
This won’t make men like you more.

SmallDFartyCarNRG · 05/09/2026 13:41

ColinOfficeTrolley · 05/09/2026 13:38

A large group of masked men dressed in black looks extremely intimidating. Imagine being in a car with your kids on your way to / from the ferry and being surrounded by them, not knowing who they are or what they are going to do

B b but they're protecting wimmen and kidz

Because THEY want to be the ones to harm them, how dare these immigrants come over and do similar crimes to their wimmin and kidz? It is only OK to do this when it is white men committing femicide and matricide. It is almost as if when they look around at other hooded men they don't see the long rap sheets for similar offences in the blank eyes looking back at them.

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