Epping is far from only place where public anger is spilling over at £5.7m spent daily on migrant hotels
FROM festooning themselves in rainbow emblems at Pride events, to endless virtue-signalling diversity initiatives, our police leaders are never happier than when indulging in woke causes.
So with cops having allowed the pro-Palestinian mob to terrify Jews on the streets of London for two years, it was inevitable that Essex Police would give a helping hand to far-left activists who descended on a migrant hotel protest in Epping.
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At first the force denied any suggestions of assistance.
But once footage emerged, it had to admit officers had escorted masked and hooded demonstrators towards the demo already unfolding.
In fact, the cops couldn't have been more helpful if they'd been an easyJet crew offering speedy boarding to passengers at nearby Stansted Airport.
Clashes with racist far-right thugs already gathered outside The Bell hotel duly erupted.
Forgotten amid the mayhem were the ordinary mums, dads and grandparents waving placards spelling out genuine concerns after a migrant was arrested over sex offences against a teenage girl, within days of arriving on a small boat.
They remain angry that the Government has failed to protect our borders and is now bussing in young foreign men from deeply unfamiliar cultures.
And they are furious at police for failing to keep their town safe from appalling thuggery.
To their visible dismay, Epping is fast becoming a byword for all that is broken about Britain.
But it is far from the only place where public anger is spilling over at the insanity of £5.7million being wasted every day on migrant hotels.
Protests are unfolding outside the Britannia International in London's Canary Wharf, where asylum-seekers will soon be housed at a cost of at least £81 per night, per head.
Farage fury as cops admit ESCORTING pro-migrant protesters to Essex asylum hotel
The hotel's website boasts of restaurants, bars, en-suite bedrooms and 'spectacular' views over the Thames.
All available courtesy of law-abiding taxpayers.
What an utterly shameful fiasco.
Medicine balls
WITH breath-taking arrogance and shocking disregard for the sick, striking doctors insist any deaths that result from their five-day walkout will have nothing whatsoever to do with them.
It'll be down to the Government for not giving them a 29 per cent pay rise.
For good measure, slippery BMA union leaders claim it will be a 'dereliction of duty' for any non-striking doctor to step in and cover them.
Not only are they ripping up their duty to the unwell.
The Marxist medics want to intimidate their fellow health professionals.
Their naked greed is plain for all to see.
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