The protest wasn't racist...it was right

ANY hope Labour could snap out of this dreary, self-imposed doom loop over whether they need to change leaders ... and actually get on with trying to run the country?

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SO, THEY were right all along. The mums, dads, grandparents and locals who took to the streets to protest about a migrant sex pest - who had been placed in a hotel in their midst as part of the appallingly mismanaged asylum-seeking shambles that is plaguing too many areas across the country - were spot on.

Dismissed as racists by senior Labour politicians and deluded Left-wing commentators who will go to extraordinary lengths to cover up painful truths, the people of Epping in Essex and the surrounding area were totally justified in voicing their concerns.

But while supporting their efforts, let's make it plain that the actions of the ugly rent-a-mob crowd of assorted and largely masked professional rabble rousers and anarchists that pitched up on the scene outside the now-infamous Bell Hotel are to be roundly decried.

Craven politicians latched on to that unsupportable group's vile sentiments, seeing it as a perfect cover to attack a valid - and ultimately vindicated - outpouring of local fury.

Ethiopian Hadush Kebatu, 41, was jailed for 12 months at Chelmsford magistrates' court after being found guilty of sexual offences.