UK minister Emma Reynolds has condemned hundreds of protesters who blocked streets in the English coastal city of Portsmouth late on Sunday to try to stop the arrival of migrants from France, calling them 'thuggish'.⁣ ⁣ The gathering was the second anti-migrant demonstration in two days, after masked men disrupted traffic in the port of Dover on Saturday, chanting 'Stop the boats', a reference to the vessels carrying asylum seekers across the English Channel.⁣ ⁣ The protesters, who were responding to calls from some far-right groups believed to be using messaging systems including Signal and Telegram, were reacting to the arrival of 140 migrants who had crossed to England.⁣ ⁣ Successive British governments have faced accusations from opposition parties and anti-migration activists of failing to curb the numbers of asylum seekers coming to Britain, often in overcrowded, inflatable boats.⁣ ⁣ #farright #portsmouth #protest #migration