Far-right demonstrators were met with noise and numbers in Wolverhampton yesterday when anti-fascists turned out to confront a protest at a hotel formerly used to house refugee families.
Around 45 far-right activists gathered at the empty building, only to find themselves outnumbered and outmanoeuvred.
Some 50 counter-protesters from Wolverhampton Together, Wolverhampton TUC and Stand up to Racism drowned them out with vuvuzelas throughout.
It was the fifth far-right demonstration called at a Wolverhampton hotel over recent months.
The first two attracted no one at all. In November, Patriotic Alternative and Raise the Colours ran the show. By March, only Raise the Colours remained.
Today’s turnout, called by ‘Wolverhampton Patriots’, was a ragbag of unknowns, with just one local face, Garry Bennett, identified among them.
The only figures of wider note were the ubiquitous former Chelsea Headhunter turned Youtube streamer ‘Brexit’ Brian Stovell, and Ryan Ferguson, the self-proclaimed neo-Nazi from Liverpool.
He recently appeared in court alongside far-right streamer Harry Jackson over an incident at a Liverpool hotel.
In Wolverhampton, at least, the far right’s trajectory is clearly downward.
