Night fell, and hundreds of men, clad in black and masked with balaclavas, emerged from various parts of England, targeting the ports in the south.
On the morning of September 5, around 200 of these men took control of the roads leading to Dover, the busiest port in the UK, located in Kent.
Their presence was unexpected, catching police off guard. For four hours, they obstructed the highway to London, unsettling the vital connection between England and the European continent.
The following evening, they appeared in Southsea, close to the Royal Navy base in Portsmouth, just after a British lifeboat brought ashore a large group of 140 illegal immigrants who had crossed the English Channel from France. In a related protest, locals blocked the buses the government was using to transport these immigrants to hotels, while the masked group confronted riot police into the early hours.
They returned to the coast of Hampshire on September 21, compelling rescue boats to land back in Dover.
The next day, their leader, Danny “Tommo” Thomas, and a small group set out to intercept two dinghies carrying illegal immigrants.
“This is England!” Tommo cried out as he slashed a dinghy with a knife.
These individuals refer to themselves as the Patriot Platform, a form of next-generation English vigilantes.
Once again, England’s ports have become battlegrounds against what some perceive as an invasion. The immigrants, who are arriving illegally from France and Belgium, are seen as victims of global trafficking rings.
Rather than sending them back, the British government accommodates these individuals. This scenario is, I think, sowing seeds of distrust among ordinary Britons towards their government, nudging them closer to extremist groups like the Patriot Platform.
The state provides these newcomers with welfare, housing, and lawyers who assist them in navigating the asylum process. However, it remains tight-lipped about data that reveals, similar to trends in other parts of Europe, immigrants often disproportionately feature in serious crime statistics.
Many illegal entrants ditch their passports in the Channel prior to claiming asylum under fake identities. The analysis of their asylum requests can stretch for years, during which they are free to leave state accommodations.
It feels like the British government is complicit with organized crime, forcing taxpayers to subsidize a perceived invasion and putting up with concerning crimes under the banner of diversity.
In many ways, the state seems to have reneged on the social contract, neglecting essential obligations inherent in a democratic government.
It has yielded its borders to international regulations and effectively handed over immigration policy to activist legal minds. A crisis of immigrant-related crime has emerged, but the government remains silent on this issue.
There’s a perceivable “two-tier” approach to policing; authorities seem to overlook the violence from one faction while penalizing the law-abiding populace for voicing concerns as they watch traditional English life slip away.
The outcome is distressingly predictable: disorder escalates, accompanied by emerging ethnic and extremist alliances.
It’s not too dissimilar from what’s been observed in certain parts of America, where masked groups on the streets include both Antifa and Islamist factions, disrupting the peace while chanting slogans.
What I gather from this is that identity politics is now a two-sided coin. The Patriot Platform, it seems, represents a portion of the native English rising to express their grievances.
Leading the Patriot Platform is Danny “Tommo” Thomas, a 37-year-old father of four and a former tank driver with the King’s Royal Hussars who experienced prison time for being involved in a botched armed kidnapping of a drug dealer. After his release, he found faith while incarcerated.
Once out, he found common ground with other English nationalists, including the notable Tommy Robinson, and launched the Patriot Platform in June.
According to the group’s website, “The time for polite silence is over.” They urge individuals to unite with those who refuse to watch Britain decline.
The Patriot Platform appears to leverage tactics from both radical Left and extremist groups to further its white identity agenda. Tommo claims about 40,000 members in a decentralized structure, which employs online secrecy and spontaneous gatherings to avoid police intervention.
Previous nationalist movements like Robinson’s English Defence League lacked cohesion. In contrast, the Patriot Platform shares characteristics with both the Islamists and Antifa, opposing substance abuse while adopting a paramilitary flair and calling upon coordinated lawful actions.
Tommo envisions building the “practical infrastructure” needed to confront governmental complicity in illegal immigration.
This situation mirrors something we haven’t seen in Britain since the 1930s with Oswald Mosley and his “blackshirts.”
It’s a scenario Britain’s security services have dreaded for years.
In Hampshire, the men led by Tommo managed to confront law enforcement effectively. Local police commissioner Donna Jones remarked that the demands on her officers are now “unsustainable,” prompting calls for action from the Home Secretary in London to prevent further landings.
The next flashpoint is expected near Oxford, where the government intends to place over 1,250 illegal immigrants in a repurposed military facility adjacent to a small village.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has asserted that she will utilize “the full force of the law” should the Patriot Platform decide to mobilize in Piddington. However, one can’t help but wonder if she truly grasps the implications of ethnic mobilization—after all, how else did she secure her seat in Parliament?
