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Cops ESCORTING lefties IN to Epping to battle angry locals protesting over migrant hotel proves two tier policing exists

Cops ESCORTING lefties IN to Epping to battle angry locals protesting over migrant hotel proves two tier policing exists

The Sun23-07-2025
JUST when you thought our police forces couldn't get any more inept and ludicrous, along comes Ben-Julian Harrington.
As you've probably seen, there has been a week of protests in Epping about the presence there of a hotel stuffed full of asylum seekers.
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One of the migrants has been up in court charged with sexually assaulting a child. Locals say they don't feel safe in their little village any more. They are sick to the back teeth of it.
And so they protested, as is their right.
However, the whole thing turned very nasty when a bunch of deluded morons from Stand Up To Racism arrived to oppose the views of the locals. A battle took place, likely instigated by the lefties.
A battle took place, instigated by the lefties. But it's now been revealed that the Stand Up to Racism rabble were escorted to the hotel where the demonstration was taking place. By the police.
At first the coppers lied and said they hadn't escorted the lefties. Then, when footage was revealed of the coppers marching alongside the Stand Up To Racism shower, they fessed up.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid action by the old bill. An action which also clearly showed a partisan approach by the police. They were on the side of the lefties.
Nigel Farage has described the decision to escort the dunderheads as 'absolutely disgraceful'. He has also called for the Chief Constable of Essex to resign.
The Chief Constable of Essex is the aforementioned Ben-Julian Harrington. This is the dimwit responsible for this dangerous, atrocious decision.
His first reaction to events was to refuse to resign.
Despite the fact that his force facilitated serious disorder on the streets of Epping. And enraged the locals who had been making their points peacefully.
Police swarm 4-star London hotel set to house asylum seekers as furious protesters gather outside
It is hard to credit, isn't it? They chaperoned people from outside the area into the trouble zone, seemingly to make things much, much worse.
And in doing so immediately conveyed the impression that they had taken sides in the dispute.
Can you imagine the coppers chaperoning Jews to a march being held by the Hamas groupies, for example? It just wouldn't happen.
Ben-Julian Harrington has denied that his force showed a partisan approach. But the evidence suggests that the reverse is the truth of the matter.
He should of course resign. And the people of Epping should be given an official apology for this incredible lapse in policing standards.
Because this all plays very easily into the notion — surely by now a fact — that we have two-tier policing in this country. Shout hatred about Jewish people while marching in London in your stupid keffiyeh and the police will look on indulgently.
Tweet something a bit nasty about setting fire to migrant hotels and you'll be banged up for 30 months.
Demonstrate about the enormous number of migrants living for nowt in hotels up and down the country and the coppers will brand you far right and send in the heavies to break up the demo.
But if you're on the other side of the argument, they'll actually give you a police escort and show you where the action is taking place.
What happened in Epping will infuriate millions of people a long way from the borders of Essex.
It is evidence once again that the authorities are not on the side of ordinary people. The police have become the politically correct upholders of injustice.
NO ONE GETS OK TO STAY
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ANGELA RAYNER has warned that we might be in for a summer of rioting.
This follows a week of disturbances outside a hotel for migrants in Epping, Essex, and some bother in the Norfolk town of Diss.
The Deputy PM has suggested this 'threatens social cohesion'.
Too right, Ange. But what are you going to do about it?
Nothing whatsoever is the answer. And then when the trouble does flare up, just blame it on the 'far-right'.
It's not the far right, Angela. It's the voice of the country. We have had enough. Never mind what stupid international laws we break.
Anybody who comes here illegally should be sent back. All of them. No exceptions. And no matter how grim their country of origin.
MORE than 100 ­people have died of starvation in Gaza, say Palestinian officials. Mass starvation is a real threat.
And yet Israel continues its policy of destruction.
Gradually the country is losing all the friends it had in the west. I am a huge supporter of the Middle East 's only proper democracy. And yes, Hamas should return the remaining hostages.
But enough is enough. You don't win wars by starving children.
TOUR DE FARCE
SO here's what happened when Holly Passmore returned from a short trip to Israel.
A few days later the plod came knocking at her door. They asked her why she had been to Israel. She told them to mind their own business.
Then the coppers came back with somebody from the Government's totally useless Prevent anti- terror team.
They tried to cross examine her again. Incredible. Israel is not a terror state. Going to Israel – which many people do every year – does not make you a terrorist. It makes you a TOURIST.
When are the police going to get real and sort out crimes that actually matter to people?
IT'S LAST CURTAIN FOR OZ
IT'S very sad to hear that Ozzy Osbourne has kicked the bucket.
But honestly, how the hell did he reach 76?
It's remarkable when you consider the legendary tales of excess.
Having been the dark lord of heavy metal in the 1970s, he ended up a kind of national institution.
Not bad going for a bloke who once sang: 'Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope?', and who bit the head off a bat – and, reputedly, a dove.
But he came across in later years as a rather loveable old Brummie.
Truth is, no matter how seriously some of the fans took it, heavy metal has always had a big dose of pantomime in it.
And Black ­Sabbath were probably more pantomime than most.
RIP Ozzy.
THE Government is to ­lower the voting age to include 16 and 17-year-olds.
It says it is doing this to be more democratic.
But it's really doing it because that age group is so dense they all vote Labour or Green.
In other words, it is gerrymandering. If it was down to me, I'd raise the voting age to 25. And the age at which you can drive a car too, come to that.
Two places we don't want 16-year-olds – in the polling booth and behind a steering wheel.
SPOT OF LUNACY
I'VE seen some hideous football strips in my time.
Dulwich Hamlet's pink and black outfit for a start.
Or there's Coventry City 's brown strip from the late 1970s.
Or Arsenal 's away kit from two seasons ago that made the players resemble zebras with jaundice.
But you'd have to go a long way to beat ­Forest Green's kit this season. It's kinda lime leopard print.
The fans hate it. The only person who seems to like it is club owner and eco-loon Dale Vince.
He reckons the shirts are eco-friendly. Probably made from chewed up and spat out bars of nougat.
TAKE PRIDE IN LIONESSES FOR SEEING SENSE
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WOW, you have to say this about the Lionesses. They are nothing if not tenacious.
Twice now they've been down and out. And then come back from the dead.
They're showing a bit of character politically, too.
They are now refusing to do that stupid, demeaning gesture of taking the knee.
It is astonishing that this ludicrous act of virtue- signalling is still being performed by football teams.
We long ago dropped any pretence that Black Lives Matter was anything other than a thoroughly nasty organisation.
So why continue with the gesture that made the group famous?
It makes no sense. And, as the Lionesses have said themselves, it does absolutely nothing to combat racism.
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