‘Disrupt whenever possible’: police clash with protesters blocking bus to Bibby Stockholm

Hundreds of protesters prevented an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a south London hotel and transfer them to the Bibby Stockholm barge. The Guardian witnessed crowds blocking the bus and the road outside the Best Western hotel in Peckham before police were able to move in and break up the protest. The bus eventually left the area after seven hours, with no asylum seekers onboard
Subscribe to Guardian News on KZbin ► bit.ly/guardianwiressub
London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to Bibby Stockholm ► www.theguardian.com/uk-news/a...
The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► bit.ly/3uhA7zg
Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► theguardian.com/first-edition
Website ► www.theguardian.com
Facebook ► / theguardian
Twitter ► / guardian
Instagram ► / guardian
The Guardian on KZbin:
The Guardian ► bit.ly/guardiannewssubs
Guardian Australia ► bit.ly/guardianaussubs
Guardian Football ► bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs
Guardian Sport ► bit.ly/gdnsportsubs
Guardian Live ► bit.ly/guardianlivesubs
#bibbystockholm #migrants #refugees #asylumseekers #peckham #police #london #protest

[@user-ej1vv6bx1h]

We have no responsibility for these illegal immigrants.

[@garygallagher3428]

This country is an international laughing stock.

[@tonymccake3057]

I know, it started with Brexit only that particular joke is never going to end until all the knuckleheads who voted for it realise they've been gaslighted by the Tories, farage and Murdoch. This issue is a direct result of the Brexit con. Enjoy

[@miloandalfie5509]

@gary. Yes, since Brexshit.

[@abdell75roussos]

@@miloandalfie5509 Your people voted on brexit in part to secure your borders, this did not happen. The wider EU wants UK to fail, and France is purposly allowing crossing, why wouldnt they? France does not want to pay for this.

[@netcurtains]

No riot police there,like the st George's day gathering

[@anneankaspilling]

Yes all police in white caps are armed I was told ! 😢

[@mcirelandosharma7411]

​@@anneankaspillingpretty sure that's just a higher rank officer. Different hats so they can be seen easily in a crowd. Riot police would never be armed.

[@rogerhall3538]

Funny That

[@madmelwood3778]

Yep..100%

[@lordcharfield4529]

??? There wasn’t a riot! The police seemed to be managing perfectly well as they were…….

[@stan-mk8je]

To slash tyres you have to be in possession of a knife, yet no arrestes for knife carrying

[@eyesodd]

Might have been within the legal size requirement 😄

[@TG-ts3xn]

Why would the police arrest protected class leftists??

[@WhatYaL00kingAt]

@@eyesodd you need a blade that locks into place to apply enough pressure to puncture it. Regardless of size locking blades are illegal.

[@lordstevewilson1331]

You can let air out by removing a valve.

[@eyesodd]

@@WhatYaL00kingAt Swiss army knives are non locking and will easily puncture a vehicle tyre.

[@catalin4803]

Let me get that straight: are they protesting the deportation of the people who entered illegally in the country?

[@davemcshane6341]

No, they're protesting against the forced deportation of asylum seekers, neither you, nor anyone else in these comments have any idea whether or not some or all of them arrived legally or illegally.

[@nickim963]

The enter the country illegally because the Tories removed all legal routes into the country. They made every asylum seeker 'illegal' the minute they did that. This is why the gangs and people smugglers exist.

[@ppetal1]

Yes dopey. Straight enough?

[@englishbob9492]

No they are just moving them to a different facility.

[@Kushdeeskates]

Yes, they are straight up fools

[@user-vt2qe8hp1l]

If the protesters feel that strongly about this why don’t they take them into their own homes

[@aprilm287]

EXACTLY!

[@TheBladereddragon]

Ask any of these muppets the answer we have no room well ENGLAND has no room.

[@ryanm7097]

😂😂😂😂

[@grahambell4298]

At their own expense.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@@TheBladereddragontrue. We're pretty packed. Give em an inch, they'll take a mile.

[@AlphaGamer1981]

And I bet none of these people are willing to allow the asylum seekers to stay in their own homes.

[@jessrain3860]

They don't need to, their taxes are paying for the refugees to be here. They get a say I'm how their taxes are spent, this isn't Russia

[@SR-cz5yy]

Spot on!! Took the words out of my mouth 👏

[@tonymccake3057]

I know, especially when it makes much more sense to spend many millions to send people off to Africa.

[@sangeetprabhaker]

Wrong

[@SR-cz5yy]

@@sangeetprabhaker why?? Are you?

[@TheBladereddragon]

Police absolutely PATHETIC .

[@colinsmith1288]

You are being to polite.

[@terryreknaw6152]

Two tier policing. Very selective.

[@WhatYaL00kingAt]

Why not show the video of the protesters being violent?

[@kitcat4512]

It's the guardian of the left?

[@bigCyril]

One sided news from the Guardian.

[@fritzwrangle-clouder6033]

@@Hackney_Boy-DoesntReadReplies But there weren't any intelligent people among the protesters.

[@tonymccake3057]

Maybe because they aren't being violent?

[@ScottyBoy-ns2rt]

@@tonymccake3057 a gb news camerman was assaulted so yeah I’d say they were

[@HoldenCaulfields]

Haven't any of these protesters got jobs to go to?

[@TheBladereddragon]

Benefit eaters.

[@kevinkelly4680]

Maybe they care for something more than their Job, maybe they are sick of paying Taxes to fund wars.. go work.

[@TheBladereddragon]

@@kevinkelly4680 If they don't work then they are not paying tax muppet.

[@eyesodd]

This is their job, seriously. How have people not worked out that these mass protest groups are paid aggressors?

[@TG-ts3xn]

Paid by NGOs

[@MZig-rw7su]

Another day, Another embarrassment for our ineffective police who we pay wages for....

[@abb80759]

The mob won this, and honestly shouldn't have. These people came here illegally, and cost taxpayers literally millions of pounds every day to house and refuge. If it's refuge alone they seek and not a free ticket to the UK where the government pays £47bn on benefits every year then why not go to Rwanda? It's just as safe literally, it's just they want the best free meal they can get at our expense.

[@grateberk6435]

You are an absolute vile excuse for a human being. You were born in a safe country. Have some respect for people who are not.

[@bensims7501]

Maybe we could ask the protesters to pay more tax

[@cman5461]

@@bensims7501 Great idea. Why don't they set up a gofundme or something. That'll be very telling.

[@mcirelandosharma7411]

​@@bensims7501he problem is not that there's not enough tax. The problem is that 90% of tax collected is stolen by politicians.

[@user-hk8ix3nj4s]

Maybe these refugees come from countries affected by wars created by USA and UK? Why don t we stop engaging in wars that result in people having to flee their countries. Iraq Siria Libia Afghanistan and so on you name it!!

[@SpacedOdyssey]

Guardian readers, Like walking through a field Full of Cow Dung

[@johndaarteest]

Oh I wish I could like this comment more than once.

[@angr3819]

😂

[@jamesmc1272]

How did they all manage to get the day off work.

[@edgarfarrell8096]

Is the guardian literally saying disrupt wherever possible, this is not journalism this is radicalism from a news outlet.

[@abdell75roussos]

I try to read both sides of the news, but the left is unreadable. Its as if they live in a parallel universe where the adults never grow up and face reality.

[@nihilistlivesmatter5197]

No horses...no batons.

[@drhfuhruhurr4253]

No just kid gloves. Two tier policing.

[@tennysonfordblackbird2087]

Our country has come to this .😢

[@Arcadiabeckons]

A vicious cruel police state?

[@TG-ts3xn]

Full of foreign thieves?

[@Nedchilvs]

Labour and Tories have betrayed us all

[@papasmurf3024]

Our govt have brought the country to this

[@happyjonn9242]

Rwanda needs diversity and multiculturalism too

[@sHaRaTh-lc8ei]

Rwanda needs British women 😮

[@SilverbackMatt]

I wonder who told these protesters about this coach....something stinks here.

[@Kerry-ft2zf]

Interesting thought, so what you thinking? Someone in charge doesn't actually plan for any of these flights to take off

[@druidlx2674]

every one of those protesters should be sent to Rwanda

[@roberthughes8428]

Two tier policing at its finest

[@aprilm287]

Will this lot be happy that their kids or relatives or themselves, will be at the bottom of the housing list when it comes to these folk getting proper housing? Why don't they protest like this for their own countrys veterans who are on sleeping rough on the streets? Do they not care about their own fellow country folk either?!

[@andromedarising5764]

They act and think on emotion only which is why so many cant be reasoned with. The dont like discussion or debate. They are toddler like in mind. Lets be honest you could easily predict everyone of their political stances and opinions. Socialist/communists wannabes who really do wish to see the west fall

[@lynneharris7628]

Why aren't these people at work to pay taxes to keep the new friends here , housed, and fed .

[@maviskeegan7618]

Why does the stupid government advertise beforehand what they are going to do.

[@mcirelandosharma7411]

Probably because they planned all of this.

[@TG-ts3xn]

Govt wants this. The WEF have plans.

[@kitcat4512]

Educate, agitate, fund and organize, that's how the NGOs do it

[@cocos8903]

They're bringing them over and giving them badly paid work.

[@heathercooper6043]

yep and they are running the country it seems.

[@johndaarteest]

Vanguard and Blackrock.

[@cocos8903]

@@johndaarteest Yes.

[@stevenmakepeace2013]

Where’s the horses and riot gear like they had on St George’s day.? Oh sorry wrong crowd

[@GerardoMcCabe]

Why don't you show the footage where the GB news cameraman is assaulted??

[@paladin5163]

There are always do gooders who have to make a drama of everything. How is the law ever going to be enforced when these people keep getting in the way.

[@inhimwelive3951]

They shouldn't brake laws,stay in your country and make it better.

[@christopheuhlin7309]

The actions of the past make the present and shape the future. For a few hundred years and still doing it, rich North Western countries are plundering poorer countries, polluting their ecosystems, brought about climate change which is not so slowly making earth inhabitable( particularly in the southern emisphere), bringing about unstable countries in the process and here we wander why other fellow human beings want to try to have a better life elsewhere????? There are plenty of vacancies not being filled like in the NHS, in care, in teaching, in manuel labor ( think fruits and vegetables rotting in fields) etc.... We are being manipulated by a few very rich people who control medias and want things to stay the way they are. The truth is there are plenty of resources on earth to satisfy everyone. Greed is the problem.

[@ArenAurelius]

War has never come to your country ?!

[@inhimwelive3951]

@@ArenAurelius Which country?

[@123prestolee]

Where are the police horses?

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

The taste for protest is spreading, it seems.

[@colinsmith1288]

Election year. People seem to go a bit nuts near to one occuring.

[@christophersavill4785]

Thick sheep

[@eyesodd]

Paid aggressors, just like the just stop oil lot.

[@TG-ts3xn]

NGOs ramping up ahead of elections. The WEF have their mandate 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

@@eyesodd Paid by who?

[@leodoherty5304]

I despise these lucking luckers!

[@michaelfourie345]

Why?

[@mosquesock450]

Turkeys voting for Christmas 🎄🦃

[@netcurtains]

Eid

[@saxonmanwaring7723]

This country has a moral duty? So they can stay at your house ye?

[@duanetrivett750]

You Don't see this in Poland, I wonder why ?

[@williamsafari6437]

DWP should check who the protesters are & immigration

[@professormcclaine5738]

The weather in Rwanda is lovely at this time of the year.

[@joannastronach9107]

What an absolute shambles 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@TG-ts3xn]

Since 1997

[@soylentgreen9492]

What happened to the mace and clubs?

[@bigCyril]

Reserved for English people with St.George flags

[@b_tuber-ti8ep]

Where were the massive police horses?

[@tomatomi8041]

Has the white horse recovered from his injuries?

[@vickybrit87]

These people should be fined 30k each then let's see if they will block the buses.

[@Larsbor]

What happend to teargas and watercannons? And horses and battons.. this like kindergarten compared to St. Georges day.

[@jamesunsworth8468]

How about the illegal immigrants/asylum seekers go live with the protesters.

[@OtherworldlyYTP]

yall are crazy 💀

[@SneedFeedNSeed]

Seems a bit racist to think being taken in by Rwanda is such a bad thing

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

Shouldn't these people be at work?

[@johndaarteest]

They probably are at work, they are probably 'content creators' on a social media platform and they are recording themselves being holier than thou.

[@coneyisland4568]

If the people blocking the bus had been arrested and charged with public order offences, this type of nonsense would stop straightaway.

[@tomatomi8041]

So am I still far-right?

[@TG-ts3xn]

I am. Super far

[@jamesmc1272]

"They hate England and all it stands for" I'm with Melony

[@zsoltmolnar750]

Is UK a country where you can try to break the law like this? It's incredible!

[@marcusp905]

That poor e bike got dropped!!i am sure one of then had a avocado sandwich holding a yoga mat

[@GlitterandCrystals]

Empty vessels really do make the most noise…..

[@linistesipace6561]

You can’t talk about “moral duty” when you look like that

[@lorellemccall9944]

Why do we even pay for police now,they do nothing!

[@Justone372]

Go Great Britain !

[@TG-ts3xn]

Were nearly wiped out.

[@petercott1]

All middle-class posh kids .

[@miloandalfie5509]

@petercott. The educated class? Just not Gammonistas going puce because their level of literacy is The Sun, and colouring books of ww2 bombadeers 🤪

[@ZedChew]

@@miloandalfie5509RaRaRa champagne 🍾 anyone 😂

[@petercott1]

@@miloandalfie5509 I've touched a nerve there, me thinks 😏

[@user-zf6ob7sy4x]

How did the coach tyres get slashed?

[@menanampadi]

This is the voice of humanity. Nothing can stop the voice of humanity.

[@SenzoTanaka]

They cry out in pain whilst they strike you.

[@stevenbatley8666]

What is the Drum for!

[@AAaa-wu3el]

Where are all the USA and other foreign diplomats protecting human rights? Where are all the usual foreign and say Guardian correspondents' outcry?

[@fsogziewzxx]

increasingly common

[@lauraeastment7491]

In meantime police are stepping up patrols in the area not before having a health and safety assessment.

[@MKK520]

Why do you delete the comments? Google/You tube/ ccp/WEF?

[@toneschofield4609]

Tell the migrants they're going to Ireland and that bus will be full pronto

[@spaceboyrust]

I'm all for a protest that makes sense but what a waste of police resources.. the same people later complain the police aren't getting a hold of crime..

[@andrewcampbell7476]

Why are they allowed to hide their identity

[@papasmurf3024]

They are not according to Sunak.

[@timadsley9057]

Look at the comments! Its clear what people think... the bibby stockholm is a lot nicer than my university digs were.

[@neil5877]

I loathe the police in Britain and America and the politicians backing this move and taking away our human rights and the right of protest

[@abdell75roussos]

You could go to the Middle east and protest there? This is not a protest by naive childless, it is disruption of the law, and you wonder why you get poorer? Why are the left not housing and paying for these undocumented fighting aged men?

[@jerryoluwatobi7016]

If they are Ilegall, what are the issues????

[@garymolloy3575]

Now the police can arrested people for obstructing the highway. They could do it for the "just top oil" protests. They helped them.

[@yiabwstetienne7474]

Bring back the S.P.G.

[@adambaig6749]

Deport Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel all those that came up with this idea first to Rwanda.

[@DarkStar-wu9nq]

Look at Windrush 😂😂 The only people effected are the ones who refused to register as British 😂😂

[@mariehaverty8209]

And we laugh @ Donald when he suggested building a wall, how about we all live in our own country’s.

[@Fourleafclover9]

They come here on some sort of free holiday adventure we all know this.. Now the Holiday is OVER

[@enriquegarcia2612]

The only thing that they produce is multiple grievances to be manifested as well.

[@anthony342]

turkeys voting for xmas . silly fools

[@anneankaspilling]

Armed police as well- why ????

[@irajgoudarzi4517]

This îs a shame for england. Let the people free.

[@heathercooper6043]

Do you mean trying to remove these people is a shame on England? No it isn't. The shame is that England has been bludgeoned into believing it has to put everything right for everybody else at the expense of itself. We've taken people in over many years,. Well it's a big world out there and there are plenty of other places that could help those from within their geographical area and of their culture/belief system etc, but they are not interested. We've taken people in who now endlessly complain about our history, culture, humour and more besides. Enough.

[@TG-ts3xn]

Free criminals? Why bother working then??

[@irajgoudarzi4517]

@@TG-ts3xn Dear Sir, When England was in India,asia,Africa and did many many CRIMES, IT was nothing,IT was ok.but now which poor country people come to England for a better life they are criminals?

[@melodybrooke1376]

Police foot soldiers for corrupt tory party

[@tinfoilhatter5318]

Paid agitators.

[@MrCozzie28]

Keep the aliens send the childish protesters.

[@philippejoseph8604]

"They" are so jealous, their "komrads" will leave the "never ending rain land" to go to "eternal holidays in the sun Wakanda land". So hard to see.

[@user-cw3cz6xb4p]

what! how?

[@BanggaJastper]

What's no

[@kennyroman9589]

I Didn't like this guys speech and or statements filled with discrimination and hate!! Harrison Butker!! You should be thrown out've the Kansas City Chiefs for real!!

[@Shads187]

Why dont they show us thwir faces?

[@ghl3488]

Where are the riot police? Where are the horses? Where are the water cannon? Why are we putting up with this? I'm sick to the back teeth with this great unwashed rent a mob. More robust policing please.

[@zuzannanowicka6348]

Go therapy

[@davecooper3238]

Civilian use of water cannon is illegal in the U.K.

[@ghl3488]

@@zuzannanowicka6348 Labour or LibDem voter.

[@anthonyferris8912]

Carp band.

[@VioletBagpipeSack-xf3ke]

'police clash with protesters' facts clash with Guardian 'journalists'

[@alankerr8219]

Why didn't the Home Office do this at 3.00am in the morning rather than get the MET to confront the protestors mid morning?

[@angr3819]

Because they want to foment trouble. All wars ARE bankers wars. It's always they, their royal relatives and politician family members etc. Always.

[@terryreknaw6152]

Selective policing..

[@wurzel6155]

Can we not also send these protesters to Rwanda.

[@alishield5176]

Each country has the ability to do what any other country does. Everything good the uk does for human rights and medicine is being side tracked by over population and lack of exsternal support to the uk for economic stability and cultural growth. Screening processes should be set up like the TSA for the mind before allocation of citizenship.

[@TG-ts3xn]

Without England and its culture; the world will suffer

[@alishield5176]

@@TG-ts3xn without the worlds ability to share and compromise we wouldnt have any type of civilisation, which suffering is not crutial to build or find. The absance of an england or the general uk is a reality where the entirity of tyranical war and human violations are uncomprehendable in thier difference to our reality now. The facts of these matters here is that parliment has borrowed, stole and betrayed so many of thier brethren, constituants and other countries that if the uk isnt able to stabalise thier economy themselves considdering benifits, shares, public investments for housing, schools and hospitals ect. Then there isnt going to be a need to talk about the influences of england on anyone, considdering the uk will have a Geece moment.

[@h1pbs964]

Police very upset about people "wilfully obstructing the road". Any upset about Shell and others willfully destroying life on Earth as we know it? Worth putting a few resources into preventing that instead maybe?

[@Larsbor]

This country has s Moral duty … ..!

[@Chiara-fh4op]

Well, they got the publicity they shouldn't have been allowed to get away with tbud. Wedo not have any MORAL DUTY to look after just anyone.

[@markwright130]

Lost all respect for the police when they took the knee and ran away

[@JoanaJeff-yt1js]

ALL EU WILL FACE SAME PROBLEMS TOO.

[@Shads187]

Middle class hipsters 😂