FAR-RIGHT SPEAKERS
“Today is the spark of a cultural revolution in Great Britain, this is our moment,” Robinson said in an address to supporters, saying they had shown “a tidal wave of patriotism”.
In a video link to the rally, US billionaire Elon Musk, who has intervened in British politics to support Robinson and other far-right figures, called for a change of government in Britain. He said the British public are scared to exercise their free speech.
Other attendees, who included women and young people, said they were more worried about migration.
“It’s an invasion,” 28-year-old Ritchie, who only gave his first name, said of the record levels of UK immigration in recent years, including tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving annually on small boats across the Channel.
“They don’t understand we want our country back,” he said of the ruling centre-left Labour government and its Conservative predecessors, calling Robinson “a hero”.
“DANGEROUS” LIES
At the anti-racism event, veteran Labour lawmaker Diane Abbott accused Robinson and his allies of spreading “nonsense” and “dangerous” lies that asylum seekers were a threat.
“We need to be in solidarity with asylum seekers, and we need to show that we are united,” she told Sky News.
London police, who drafted in officers from other forces to manage the crowds, placed conditions on the protest routes and timings, insisting they end at different times and that both conclude by evening.
Some at Robinson’s event attached to their placards photos of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing American activist and ally of Donald Trump, who was shot to death this week.
Other signs included slogans like “stop the boats” and derided Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
