‘It sent a message’: anti-migrant feeling pervades Hampshire town where hundreds protested

Far-right posters go up around Gosport, but some residents say there’s ‘another side’ to life in the town Alan Dale was in two minds as he gazed across at Portsmouth harbour in the late September sunshine and reflected on the latest show of force by far-right activists on the south coast against a supposed disembarkation of asylum seekers.

A stone’s throw away, masked followers of the anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas had been cheered on Tuesday night by hundreds, many of them local, who had gathered after social media rumours that authorities planned to land the migrants in the Hampshire town of Gosport.

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