From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 8 Sep 2025 at 16:13:28 BST, "JNugent"  wrote: 
  
 > On 08/09/2025 10:30 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 > 
 >> On 2025-09-08, Spike  wrote: 
 > 
 >>> Whoever is going to take any notice of two or three neighbours 
 >>> protesting about the safety of women and girls, in the manner that has 
 >>> so exercised the government that they had to bus-in the far left to 
 >>> stir up trouble with their chants of Nazis! and that hackneyed word 
 >>> Racists!? 
 >> 
 >> I'm curious as to why you keep claiming that variously the government 
 >> or the police are "bussing in" anti-fascist protestors. 
 >> 
 > Quetion to CoPilot: 
 > 
 > Q: "Did the Essex police recently facilitate the arrival of 
 > "anti-racism" protestors who were there to challenge the local residents 
 > protesting against the use of a local hotel to house asylum seekers?" 
 > 
 > A: Essex Police did not facilitate or €€€bus in€€€ anti-racism protestors 
 to 
 > the Bell Hotel in Epping, despite claims circulating online. The force 
 > explicitly denied these allegations, stating that they provided a foot 
 > cordon for counter-protesters walking to the site, and later escorted 
 > some individuals away from the area by vehicle for safety reasons. 
 > 
 > So, no "bussing-in", at least, not in those precide terms (hence the 
 > wording of the question above). But the police did facilitate the 
 > arrival of the far left group (by protecting them from whatever threat 
 > was imagined) when they could easily have better ensured public order 
 > and safety by simply keeping them away from the area. 
  
 Which would have been to ignore their right to protest and favouring one 
 side; 
  which is what the police did in the 1930s to protect Moseley's blackshirts, 
 and was not a good look even then. 
  
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 Roger Hayter 
  
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