National Front protest Wakefield Asylum Centre 7th September 2013

Around 60 members and supporters of the National Front turned out on Sat 7th September for a day of action in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield.

Wakefield Council have recently opened a large centre for Asylum seekers, named the “Angel Lodge Immigration Centre.”

We met at lunchtime outside Wakefield Railway station and several times the Police helicopter hovered above us, I thought it was going to be one of those days where we were limited to what we could do because of heavy handed Policing  but on the day only about 4 officers turned up.

We left the railway station and held our first demo outside Angel Lodge immigration Centre.

Daz who organised the day had had a great banner made about the centre so we unveiled the flags and banners, the staff came out and locked the gates so we took photos and moved on as this was not a place where  the public could see us.

We went into the town centre and held our main demo outside the Cathedral,  both Daz Lumb and myself made speeches that were very well received by the public, we also handed out 1500 leaflets that we had made about the Immigration centre. The public were very interested and happily stopped to talk to us, the general feeling was that the people of Wakefield have had enough.

The only opposition we had was shorted lived when some mouthy red  stood on a wall shouting “everyone is equal and everyone has a right to live in our country” no one paid him any attention and he soon left.

We held our demo for about 2 hours and then we left and went on to a local venue to hold a meeting. It was an excellent venue with friendly staff, several locals came into the meeting which we held in a private room.

Daz Lumb Chaired the meeting and also gave a speech, Greater Manchester Organiser Kev McMahon then gave a short speech from the heart and i ended the day with a half hour speech.

This was a fantastic day that left everyone in high spirits.

I would like to thank Mark Freeman and the lads from Kent for driving 290 miles to join us and also Biggsy and the crew  who made the journey from Newcastle.

And I would like to thank Daz for organising the day and everyone that turned up and helped put the National Front well and truly back on the map in West Yorkshire.

Well done to all

Kev Bryan