Shockingly, a second police force has come under fire after a video emerged showing officers escorting and protecting, even joking with pro-migrant activists, to a protest outside an asylum seeker hotel. 

Officers from Hampshire police were filmed walking alongside anti-racism counter-protesters to Potters International Hotel in Aldershot, where migrants are staying. 

The footage, filmed on May 10, comes as Essex Police this week faced fierce criticism after a similar video showed officers escorting counter-protesters to the Bell Hotel in Epping, last week. 

The row led to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calling for Essex Police’s chief constable, BJ Harrington, to resign on Wednesday, something the senior officer has firmly rejected. 

Meanwhile, top police campaigners have warned that the violence that embroiled Epping could act as a signal flare for similar waves of chaos, which could spread across the UK this summer.  

The latest horrendous clip of police officers bussing’ counter-protesters saw one activist brandishing a placard supporting the campaign Stand Up to Racism, which is partly funded by trade unions and led by Labour MP, Diane Abbott. 

The group is already planning to mobilize scores of its supporters to take part in a series of planned counter-protests outside migrant hotels this weekend. 

But the presence of the left-wing activists has reportedly led to violence erupting at previous rallies, with anti-asylum seeker demonstrators in Epping saying it is what triggered the chaotic scenes of disorder in the Essex town on July 17. 

Police made 16 arrests and have so far charged five people with violent disorder, with officers accusing a small group of people of acting thuggishly and allegedly using the peaceful demonstration to commit criminal acts. 

Commenting on the footage from Hampshire, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative Party leader told the Telegraph: ‘It is simply not the police’s job to facilitate protest. It is their job to make sure there is peace on the streets.

‘If you come to counter protests, you’re asking for trouble, and it’s not the police’s job to enable that. By doing so, they run the risk of bringing people there who are out to cause trouble. It makes no sense at all.’

The latest video to emerge was filmed when Turning Point UK was demonstrating alongside local activists Rushmoor People First. 

Some of the far-left pro-migrant protesters were seen illegally wearing masks, glasses and hoodies to cover their faces. Others held banners saying ‘refugees welcome’.

While the anti-migrant protesters carried Union flags and plaques with slogans like ‘pensioners before migrants’, ‘illegals housed here’ and ‘house Brits on waiting lists’. These activists were not wearing face masks or attempting to hide their identity.   

A spokesman for Turning Point UK said it was growing increasingly appalled to see officers escorting far-Left agitators to protests. You can share this story on social media:

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