Riot police deployed as opposing demonstrations march through central London ahead of Tuesday’s parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s deal 1.57pm GMT A march by a group called the Mersey Nationalists was due to take place in Liverpool today in support of Tommy Robinson’s Brexit Betrayal march in London but it failed to materialise, the Liverpool Echo reports. It said:They had insisted the march would be to protest against the government’s ‘Brexit Betrayal’ – but anti-fascism campaigners said the group were about ‘whipping up racism’.And more than a hundred people with anti-racism flags and placards gathered in the city centre to show their opposition to the group… 1.48pm GMT This is awful to see.Here at the ‘Brexit betrayal’ march is a man holding a noose. He gave his name as Laukan Creasey, from Stevenage. I asked why he was carrying it. ‘That’s what the traitor May deserves. That’s what treasonous people get,’ he said. pic.twitter.com/ModEM8bj4h Continue reading…
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