At around eight on Saturday evening a friend called and told me to switch on Sky News to watch its coverage of the demonstration in Dover, where more than 100 men – dressed in black and wearing balaclavas – could be seen marching through the streets to protest against illegal migration, the only sound an occasional chant of ‘Stop the boats’.
As it happens, I had already seen the footage she was referring to but I was shocked by her reaction to it: ‘At last, someone is finally speaking out for us.’
The reason I was taken aback is that she’s a mum of three in her fifties who runs her own successful hair salon – someone I’d never describe as a Right-wing head banger, or a racist, or any of the other terms the Left uses to condemn anyone who supports such protests.
