Bell Hotel protestors claim to care about women and girls

Rioting, inciting hatred and threatening violence is the way to protect women and girls in Britain today, apparently.

Well, that’s what I deduce from the fact that Epping Forest District Council has been granted a temporary High Court injunction blocking the Home Office from housing migrants at The Bell Hotel – a recent epicentre for anti-migration protests that have been mischaracterised as concerned parents speaking up for their kids.

In my view, it sets a grim precedent – and does nothing to protect women and girls from the real epidemic of violence against them in the UK.

Because it was never truly about that for these protestors.

While many are celebrating the hotel’s closure, we need to be honest about what we are seeing here.

Not only in the true colours of right-wing politicia