What happened in Portsmouth last night was extraordinary. Citizens waded into the bitter sea to try to prevent the arrival of foreign men who were all but ferried in by the authorities. Ordinary people stepped up as reluctant, unpaid border guards while actual border guards rolled out the red carpet for a hundred blokes from heaven knows where. Everyday Brits stood vigil over our shores while the state threw those shores open to all-comers.
How do we even define this? What do we call it? The media has reached for that small, familiar word “protest”, as if this were a mere outburst of public anger over government policy. It was so much more than that. This was ordinary men and women stepping into the breach left by the state’s desertion of our borders. It was working-class self-organisation in defence of our national sovereignty. It is unprecedented.
Danny Tommo walked straight up to Zia Yusuf in Portsmouth, on camera, and said what a lot of working people have been thinking.
“Don’t smear the men standing in the street. They’re not “disgusting.” They’re bricklayers, roofers and fathers who’ve had enough”. Patriot Platform…
— Benonwine (@benonwine) September 7, 2026
