‘We are facing a long, hot summer’, warned a report social cohesion on Tuesday, ‘with a powder keg of tensions left largely unaddressed from last year that could easily ignite once again’. It only took two days for the first sign of this grim prediction coming true.
This time, though, the expression of public fury at migration failures was not in ‘left-behind’ northern towns like Hull or Hartlepool – or even like last month in Ballymena, where tight-knit loyalist communities have a history of kicking off to defend their interests. Thursday’s protests – and later clashes – at an asylum hotel were in the quiet Essex market town of Epping, population 12,000, mentioned in the Domesday Book and a well-heeled part of the London commuter belt at the terminus of the Central Line.
Essex police clearly saw this protestor in Epping & deliberately ran him over.
The gloves are firmly on when it's Palestine protestors & Just Stop Oil protesters. Why are they off when it's the white working class?pic.twitter.com/w6wQAMtY7p
— Major Gowen (@MajorGowen_) July 18, 2025
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m DEEPLY uncomfortable with the footage from the Epping Hotel protest that appears to show @EssexPoliceUK bussing in counter protestors.
This looks REALLY bad.
We need to demand answers. pic.twitter.com/5jKhdo98A8— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) July 18, 2025
I’ve a suspicion the Epping violence was manufactured, like in Southport. The govt knows how angry we are trying to discredit protestors.
Look no further as @MartinGauci‘s video as the Antifa types are “bussed” to the station.
Are you going to come clean @EssexPoliceUK? pic.twitter.com/h5N1WB8WzW
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) July 19, 2025
