There is a nationwide campaign to Boycott Barclays Bank because Barclays now invests over £2 billion in, and provides financial services worth £6.1 billion to, companies arming Israel. 40 years ago Barclays was investing heavily in Apartheid in South Africa so nothing much has changed. Barclays is and always has been a racist bank.

It is therefore not surprising that supporters of the openly White Supremacist Unite the Kingdom should seek to mount a counter-protest, albeit only 3 of them, to demonstrate their support for a ‘British’ bank.

I went along to the picket in North Street, Brighton and noticed after a while a Union Jack with 2 women on either end of it side by side with our own banners, so I thought it would be a friendly thing to go and talk to them.

I asked one of them why it is that fascists are such ardent supporters of Zionism and Genocide and why they were opposing our picket. The woman I spoke to didn’t seem able to answer my question. Instead she insisted that I should get out of her private space which seemed to extend well beyond her rancid features.

She then pushed me in the chest so I pushed her at which point the other woman came and tried to attack me. I parried her flailing arms and then the male minder with a Hitler moustache joined in as did a load of protesters and the Police.

They made a bogus complaint of assault but the Police could see it was a case of much ado about nothing and apart from taking my details weren’t inclined to do anything. Meanwhile these creeps had lost their place on the wall besides other protestors and the police told them to go onto a side street out of the way which meant that no one could see their patriotic mugs. Mission accomplished.