Neo Nazi protest foiled in Liverpool by counter protest.

A group of around fifty Neo Nazis were prevented from marching through Liverpool today due to the size of the counter demonstration which greeted them. Mayor Joe Anderson spoke at a rally as another group consisting of Activists confronted the Neo Nazis. The members of the far right group National Action had planned to march through Liverpool today. But due to the hostile nature of the counter protest, consisting of hundreds of people, which was waiting for them near Liverpool's Lime Street station Police held the Neo Nazis inside the station for their own safety.

There were two groups of protestors, one was led by the Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson and made up of union members and some members of the public. Another protest consisted mainly of activists, this protest met the far right group head on, it took around fifty Police officers to form a barrier between the Neo Nazis and the activists inside and outside of the Lime Street station.  

Once the protestors had realised the far right group was inside the station they stormed inside where the police had formed a cordon. A stand off ensued and bottles of urine, milk, coke and water were thrown at the Neo Nazis, along with bananas and eggs. 

Some of the far right group made a run for it out of a side exit from the station and were chased by a small group of the counter protestors, rushing past two Police officers who were caught slightly off-guard. The activists managed to get close enough to one of them and pushed him over, he hit his head on the way down and was stunned, he was eventually taken to hospital by Paramedics. 

Six arrests were made during the course of the day. 

Occupy Liverpool Love Activists Peace Camp during Cunard's birthday weekend.

   As over a million people converged on Liverpool's dockside to watch Cunard's Three Queens flagships float down the Mersey, under the Red Arrows fly past and to the sound of the pop music blaring out of the P.A speakers set up around the area, a small group of around thirty protestors sit in a camp on the Pier Head area just across the road from the Cunard Building itself.

The "Liverpool Love Activists" occupied the Bank of England branch in Liverpool last month and were part of a recent occupancy of McDonald's in Manchester. The activists are protesting about the Conservative austerity drive and it's impact on the homeless. Some of the members of the camp are ex-servicemen who have become homeless due to current government policy. They claim that homeless people in Liverpool are treated badly by the local police force, some times with violence. I asked her if they had complained, she said that "We had tried but nothing ever seemed to be done about it." Speaking to the Liverpool Echo the groups leader Juliet Edgar said "...Joe Anderson (Mayor of Liverpool) has been shoo-ing homeless people out of Liverpool for the Three Queens. It's out of order!"

Juliet told me the group had no plans of ending their occupancy until they are forcibly removed, she said "They came down about 8 O'clock last night (Sunday) threatening us with a court order, which they said they had obtained, but they didn't come back so they can't have had one in the first place."

Whilst I was with them I saw a handful of people asking the activists why they were spoiling everyone's fun, which seemed ironic as some of the younger activists were dancing along to the music coming from the P.A's. An onlooker I spoke to said to me "It's ironic isn't it! These people protesting in the middle of all this money being wasted. This country is a state."

N.B. By the way Liverpool Love Activists thanks for your hospitality and the sausage sandwich!

  

Liverpool; Cunard's Three Queens and Red Arrows celebrate companies 175th birthday.