Sandego.net – Two consecutive days of confrontations between masked demonstrators and police have turned southern England’s coastline into a stage for one of the sharpest clashes yet over migration policy. On Saturday, groups of men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas linked arms across a main road in the Kent port town of Dover, chanting “stop the boats” and blocking routes to the ferry terminals that connect England with France. By Sunday night, a second wave of similar protests erupted in the Hampshire coastal city of Portsmouth, where hundreds of masked agitators clashed with officers after a small vessel carrying migrants made landfall. The standoff in Portsmouth stretched into the early hours of Monday morning, with no arrests ultimately made by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, though an investigation was opened into assaults on officers, criminal damage to vehicles, and other offences.

The Dover protest on Saturday morning…