Anti-migrant hotel 'Pink Protest' in Parliament Square as counter-protesters gather

Evening Standard

Protesters dubbed the “Pink Ladies” are converging on Westminster in a demonstration against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.The “Pink Protest” is taking placing between 10am and 2pm, with counter-protesters from campaign group Stand Up to Racism gathering near Downing Street.

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00:00I mean we're grandmothers so it's about women and children it's getting out of

00:11hands we don't know who these immigrants are they're undocumented they're being

00:16put in our hotels and their worry is they're just being let out to walk

00:21around they should build detention centers anybody breaking into our

00:27country goes straight into a detention center and it's not allowed out until

00:32they are until they manage to deport well the pink ladies have hijacked the

00:51suffragette flag which is a green white and purple a flag and that is an insult

00:58to everyone of the suffragette and the suffragist movement who fought for the

01:04right for women to vote if they were here today they would have gone over there and

01:08taken that fag they've weaponized it it's an absolute absolute appalling thing to do

01:15they're worried for the safety of their family they're not people that go on

01:19every single demonstration like the lot over there they're people that care

01:24about their community I support them a hundred percent

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