GB News presenter Martin Daubney has offered an open invite for counter protesters to debate on his programme after storming an anti-immigration demonstration in Aldershot.
Individuals holding Socialist Workers Party signs were discovered travelling from London to the Hampshire town to clash with those gathered outside.
Speaking to a protester at the demonstration, Andy Purdy claimed that the counter protesters were using language including “racist” and “fascist” in their attacks on the Aldershot locals.
When pressed by GB News, the individuals holding the SWP signs did not deny the accusations, including that members had travelled from London to counter protest.
Martin Daubney has challenged Aldershot anti-protesters to ‘come and debate’ with him on GB News
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A spokesperson then went on to ask the GB News reporter “how he slept at night knowing that this channel had encouraged the riots”.
Reacting to the incident, Martin Daubney shut down the “outrageous accusation”, hitting out at their “unacceptable behaviour” in “calling people fascists, Nazis or racists when all they want is a safe community”.
Martin fumed: “It’s probably not a good idea to go to a military town and call people fascists and Nazis. Bear in mind, a lot of them have armed forces experience and their relatives died fighting actual fascists.
“Please come on the show Socialist Workers Party. Come and sit in this chair and let’s have a debate. While you think that is a good tactic, tell me why I’m wrong.
A peaceful anti-immigration demonstration in Aldershot was met with furious counter protesters
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“Come on this channel and let’s have this conversation. Man or woman, whatever. Let’s have this chat if you’ve got the guts.”
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Detailing the protests at the hotel, Aldershot local Andy Purdy told Martin: “They was using things like fascist, far right fascist and all that. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but there was an old boy there who was with us.
“He had his beret on and he was obviously an ex-military guy, and he said to me I don’t like them saying that – he’d lost two members of his family fighting the fascists in the war, and he said I find this very hurtful.”
When asked how he felt about the counter protesters, Purdy admitted he “didn’t feel intimidated”, but found some of their behaviour “strange”.
Purdy explained: “It was a wide range of people, some had posters up and some were in cars tooting their horns. I wasn’t intimidated at all, but quite a few of the people were wearing hoodies, masks or scarves to cover their faces, which to me is very strange.”
Aldershot local Andy Purdy described the behaviour of the counter protesters as ‘strange’
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Defending the protest of the Aldershot locals, Purdy denied that they are “far-right” and stressed that they are “simply not happy with what is going on”.
Purdy said: “The counter protesters, if they’re carrying Socialist Worker banners, are definitely far-left, they’re not middle of the road people.
“And I wouldn’t say we were far-right, we’re pretty much middle of the road people, and we’re just not happy with what’s going on.
“If people on the left are being shipped in, and the fact that they’ve all got very similar signs at all these different times, it would suggest that they are.”