Anti-immigration protesters clash with left-wing punks in Blackpool

Blackpool Gazette

Watch the moment when anti-immigration protesters clash with left-wing punks outside the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool.  Counter-protesters challenged some of the people who were demonstrating against illegal immigrants being housed in the Britannia-owned hotel on Blackpool Promenade.  Video Journalist, Lucinda Herbert, speaks to a couple of the protesters who express concerns about crime, safety, and the cost of housing illegal immigrants.

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00:00They've done nothing!

00:02They've done nothing!

00:04They've done nothing!

00:06They're all ready!

00:16Yes!

00:20It's a great position!

00:30We're not free!

00:40I know you!

00:42Okay!

00:44Better jump!

00:46Better jump!

00:48Better jump!

00:50Come to the dale where heaven you are!

00:52In shape of race with a lovely flower

00:56Helpful people, you can't take a bag

01:00Man and chow, man and chow, man and chow

01:04Human solid people, move my boy that way

01:09Oh, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

01:15Oh, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

01:21We're constantly putting our taxes up for what, do you know what I mean?

01:30I work 48 hours a week and barely Mike and Lizzie, do you know what I mean?

01:34It takes a bit of it, doesn't it, really?

01:37Have you felt this way for a long time or has he got more angry?

01:40She's just getting worse and it's just, I think each day the news just makes it worse, doesn't it?

01:46Do you know what I mean? Every day you watch the news and every day people seem to get a free ride

01:51It's just not there

01:52Children getting kidnapped and attacked and sex videos being made

01:57It's wrong, it's wrong

01:58I just don't agree with it, so I'll stand here in protest

02:02Silently, yeah

02:04So are you hoping it's going to be peaceful today?

02:07Yeah, I want peaceful, I don't want it to kick it

02:10As long as it's peaceful and we're just starting to be united

02:13There's a country, that's what we need to do

02:16They cut off my heating allowance last year at 300 quid

02:20They cut off my matey-two

02:22And it comes down here, along the side

02:25It was freezing there, my heat goes down

02:26You know, the wind is open there

02:28You know?

02:29They're taking the mick out of something

02:31I've actually seen something there, it was a couple of weeks ago

02:35Where the five bus stop was

02:36There was someone there and they must have been pinching perfumes and stuff

02:40They had them along the seat there at the bus thing, you know, I thought

02:44They broke it, broke it from all the bloody stuff that pinched

02:47It's nothing good, is it?

02:48Because they headed over there, they'd seen them going this way

02:52They were having a good laugh as well, like

02:54It's not on, is it?

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