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People taking part in a protest organised by far-right group Patriotic Alternative, face a counterprotest organised by anti-fascists from Cornwall Resists, outside the Beresford Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall
UNIONS accused Tory ministers today of being complicit in far-right violence outside hotels housing vulnerable asylum-seekers.
A joint statement signed by 14 trade union leaders pointed to MPs peddling “anti-migrant politics of attempting to divide working-class people against each other.”
The public criticism, co-ordinated by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), came after Tory Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson said last week that he had “sympathy” with anti-migrant protesters targeting hotels providing refuge for those fleeing war and persecution.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
