Protests against illegal migration bill held in London, Glasgow and Cardiff

Protesters person marched against the government’s amerciable migration measure successful cities crossed the UK connected Saturday, with organisers claiming thousands had attended.

Demonstrators carried signs and banners, immoderate speechmaking “no quality is illegal”, arsenic they matched towards Downing Street successful cardinal London.

Organisers Stand Up To Racism and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) besides held protests successful Glasgow and Cardiff against racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, fascism and the acold right.

The authorities introduced by the location secretary, Suella Braverman, means that refugees who get successful the UK done unauthorised means, specified arsenic crossing the Channel successful a boat, volition person their asylum claims deemed inadmissible.

Braverman is connected a travel to Rwanda this weekend, for which the Guardian did not person an invitation, to reaffirm her committedness to the government’s argumentation to deport migrants to the African state.

Maria Frazier, 75, said she was protesting against the authorities due to the fact that she agreed with Gary Lineker’s remark comparing the connection utilized to beforehand its migration policies to that utilized successful 1930s Germany.

The retired code and connection therapist from southbound London told PA Media: “We deliberation determination should beryllium an all-out indefinite wide onslaught and the Tories should beryllium removed by people action. They’ve got immoderate rather convulsive programmes that they’re trying to bring successful – they’re trying to prohibition strikes, they’re deporting immigrants – it’s not British.

“Lineker was close erstwhile helium said determination are shades of the German [Third] Reich successful the methods that they’re using.

“People are turning retired due to the fact that they’re highly aggravated astatine the mode the system is being tally and the deprivation that’s going connected portion the affluent radical successful powerfulness marque themselves richer.”

Coachloads of protesters were pictured connected societal media wearing masks depicting the look of Lineker, who was owed to instrumentality to TV screens to contiguous sum of the FA Cup quarter-final betwixt Manchester City and Burnley.

The broadcaster was taken disconnected air past play for a tweet criticising the connection utilized by ministers erstwhile discussing the government’s asylum policy.

Planning serviceman Mark Daly, 65, who travelled from Horsham, West Sussex, said helium wanted to basal against the government’s “racist” bill.

“The authorities is trying to marque these radical not lone unwelcome but illegal. We cannot classify radical arsenic illegal, it’s a racist argumentation from a racist government,” helium said.

Lizi Cushen, 39, said she joined the anti-racism protestation London with her hubby and sons, 4 and six, due to the fact that she had been “shocked” by the ungraded of missing exile children from Home Office hotels.

The designer from Leyton, eastbound London said: “The amerciable migration measure is dehumanising everyone who’s seeking asylum. It’s important to protestation due to the fact that it’s the lone mode to beryllium disposable and heard astatine the moment.”

Her sons held signs calling for “safe transition for each kids similar me”.

Cushen’s person Cassi Harrison, a 42-year-old foundation worker, added: “It’s conscionable outrageous.

“We spot rather a batch of the authorities ministers saying they talk for the large British public, and we privation to beryllium present to accidental that they don’t talk for us.”