The Far Right 'Hate Marchers' Whipped Up By Suella Braverman
It turned out that the real threat to Remembrance came from the very far-right thugs legitimised by the Home Secretary
So after days of Suella Braverman handwringing about ‘Hate Marchers’ threatening the sanctity of the Remembrance weekend, the real threat to it came from the very far-right mob she personally helped to whip up.
The Metropolitan Police on Saturday faced repeated violence from what they described as “counter protesters”, but which were in reality far-right thugs.
These thugs, which initially gathered in Whitehall to “protect” the cenotaph from a march that was never planned to pass it in the first place, quickly turned their attention to the very police officers who Braverman just days ago accused of “playing favourites” with the left.
“There is a remembrance event underway at the Cenotaph,” the Met Police tweeted on Saturday afternoon.
“Officers have… faced unacceptable violence, including people throwing missiles and a metal barrier.
"Those using violence made no effort to use the pavement, which is open along the full length of Whitehall on one side, in order to watch the event taking place. They were solely intent on confronting officers.”
The violence also spilled out across central London, with Met officers coming under repeated attack from far-right groups and football hooligans chanting “England til I die”.
All of this was highly predictable, and indeed was widely predicted from the very moment that the Home Secretary first sought to create a moral panic over the latest protest conducted by pro-Palestinian marchers.
So how did we get here and what, if any, consequences will there be for the violent scenes seen in London today?
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