File:A small number of right wing anti-immigration protesters, escorted by police, take an afternoon stroll along Dover's seafront. (27039383230).jpg

Sorry - there's only one reasonable photo of the right wing rally as, a few moments after taking it, a gentleman from the police force said it would be better I didn't continue photographing because my photography was provoking the protesters and added that some of them had complained that "I looked left wing" and, possibly concerned for my own safety, he encouraged me to consider calling it a day.

"Looking left wing" ?!

Probably it was down to either my scruffy jacket or to my relatively modest sized camera equipment which set me apart from the mainstream photojournalists with their bulging telephoto lenses. I certainly wasn't wearing any badges and I was not affiliated to or acting as any sort of agent for any political group or party, but yet someone had somehow guessed correctly that some of my political views ( none of which I expressed while photographing ) might be labelled "left wing".

However my perceived political views should not prevent me taking photographs and in later writing captions to those photos with a political bias based on my own personal beliefs and values. We do, I hope, still live in a democracy after all.

I should stress however that the police officer did not order me to stop photographing, nor did he threaten to arrest me and he was also polite and courteous and presumably was prioritizing immediate public safety ( including presumably my own ) above anything else and I am in that sense grateful to him

Anyway I am not complaining about the police who by and large, including the officer concerned, seemed to be focused on doing their best to conduct a professional operation.

However, what should be worrying all of us is that a growing number of British people feel that immigration and the refugee crisis are to blame for the increasingly precarious position of many workers in Britain.

This despite figures from the UNHCR and other sources which show that the number of refugees in the United Kingdom is much smaller than in other European countries and far lower than the number in Turkey and other much poorer developing nations.

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However while It's fairly complicated to explain job insecurity in terms of the growing power and greed of large corporations and the neo-liberal control of the economy, it seems much easier to blame it on Britain's economy being overwhelmed by what some of the papers have termed a "floods" of immigrants and refugees.

This does ignore some facts - such as that tax contributions from EU immigrants exceed the total amount of benefits they receive and if we are talking about refugees - then we've only received something like 1 per cent of the number that Turkey has over the last three years and we are a much much richer country.

I think also some of us don't fully appreciate the total desperation of millions of people in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain, Libya and elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East having to leave everything behind them to flee corrupt and barbaric regimes, some of which Britain still maintains diplomatic relations with and some to which the U.K still sells arms (such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt.)

But even while our multinationals strike deals and profit from these corrupt regimes to the tune of billions, some of us become angry instead about accepting just a tiny fraction of the refugees fleeing the persecution and injustice of those same regimes which we prop up and profit from.