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Dover unrest exposes serious flaws in Britain’s handling of far-right extremism

Yet to the police and the rest of the UK's intelligence apparatus, the arrival of the men chanting "stop the boats" was a surprise, despite the fact that residents of a village 18 miles away tried to report that dozens of men were congregating there on the Friday, threatening to go to Dover and "attack Muslims".

Dover unrest exposes serious flaws in Britain’s handling of far-right extremism

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Yet to the police and the rest of the UK's intelligence apparatus, the arrival of the men chanting "stop the boats" was a surprise, despite the fact that residents of a village 18 miles away tried to report...

Authorities were caught off guard by the disruption, which they labelled a 'protest' despite mass intimidation tactics To anybody watching the videos of a group of masked men, all wearing black, descending...

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Yet to the police and the rest of the UK's intelligence apparatus, the arrival of the men chanting "stop the boats" was a surprise, despite the fact that residents of a village 18 miles away tried to report that dozens of men were congregating there on the Friday, threatening to go to Dover and "attack Muslims".

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Yet to the police and the rest of the UK's intelligence apparatus, the arrival of the men chanting "stop the boats" was a surprise, despite the fact that residents of a village 18 miles away tried to report that dozens of men were congregating there on the Friday, threatening to go to Dover and "attack Muslims".

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