Photo: Single figure turnout at Dover
Two separate anti-migrant demonstrations in Dover went off half-cocked and produced a single tiny demonstration.
From Searchlight
As we previously reported, different elements of the shambolic far-right ecosystem in Kent recently announced two separate and uncoordinated anti-migrant demonstrations in Dover last Saturday.
Both went off badly half-cocked and produced a single, embarrassingly tiny, demonstration.
Dover saw a small far-right gathering on 18 April, called by cross-Channel migrant-botherer and convicted kidnapper Danny Tommo.
Simultaneous protests
After attending this, east London Restore Britain supporter Shayne Wiskin announced, across multiple social-media channels, an ambitious suite of simultaneous protests in Dover, Ramsgate and Folkestone at midday on 23 May.
Wiskin is something of a Renaissance man. As well as holding down a job installing balconies, he is a tireless online promoter of conspiracy theories, a House music DJ / producer, a self-published author (of fiction and non-fiction) and the proprietor of an AI-slop virtual film studio.
He also stood on 7 May as an Independent candidate for Newham Council in Plaistow West and Canning Town East ward, coming bottom of the poll with a 1.7% vote share.
As Restore was not at that point registered as a political party he could not run as their official candidate.
All of this activity presumably explains why Wiskin never got round to promoting the demonstrations that he’d called along the Kent coast.
More shadowy
The organisers of the other mobilisation in Dover on 23 May, called for the unfeasibly early hour of 9am, are rather more shadowy.
This event was promoted online by (among others) the prolific far-right shitposter Chris (“Patriot Smithy”) Smithy – but the actual organisers were hidden behind the brand “South East Patriots”.
A bit of online sleuthing reveals that this outfit is apparently the creation of someone who goes by the name of “John Ri” on Facebook and is one of the “Horley Patriots” in Surrey, near Gatwick Airport (over 60 miles away from Dover).
Failed to show up
The Horley mob have not had an impressive track record. In December 2025, they called a protest in Croydon – and then failed to show up for it. And their most recent protest in Horley itself, in January 2026, was humiliatingly small, despite reinforcements from Croydon and Hampshire.
“John Ri”, like Shayne Wiskin, is clearly in the habit of biting off rather more than he can chew. The “South East Patriots” have also called a demonstration in Brighton (over 20 miles away from Horley) on Saturday 13 June. This has been the overwhelming focus of their online mobilising activities and, consequently, the Dover protest barely got a look in.
A Kent activist did step into the breach with some online publicity material for the Dover demonstration, but with limited effect. This character is yet another eccentric far-right personality with a bizarre backstory.
He is Jay Alexander S Mills (alias “Millzy”), a Christian nationalist, born in Wales and raised in London, who moved from south-east London to Ashford, Kent in 2025. He previously ran a family property company and claims to be the CEO of “Jay Alexander Estates” (of which Companies House has no record).
He is the grandson of Anwar Shaikh alias Anirudh Gyan Shikha (1928–2006), an Indian-born Muslim-turned-Hindu who married a Welsh woman and became a successful property developer in Wales.
Shaikh wrote several books attacking Islam, as a result of which he had a fatwa issued against him in the 1990s.
Visceral Islamophobia
Jay Mills cites Anwar Shaikh as the inspiration for his own visceral Islamophobia and retails copies of his grandfather’s book ‘Islam & Terrorism’ by mail order from his home in Ashford.
“Millzy” was among those who attended the Dover demonstration on 18 April. On Instagram, he sought to entice people to the 23 May protest by means of some hideous AI slop and a video in which, through oddly clenched teeth (reminiscent of the affliction known as “Cocaine Jaw”), he pleaded with “patriots” to attend.
Mills has declared himself a fan of Kent far-right activist Harry Hilden (or at least some bizarre AI lookalike version of him). On Friday, the day before the Dover demonstration, Hilden himself urged his many Facebook followers to attend – for which he was thanked by “John Ri”. Jodie Scott / “Missus Kent” obligingly followed suit soon after.
It was too little, too late, though. Saturday came and a pitifully small band of far-right activists pitched up at Dover’s Western Docks.
Thwarted by police
Video shot by participants, including Folkestone “auditor” Alfie Goodey, reveals a gaggle of fewer than a dozen protesters trying to reach the migrant reception facility at Western Jet Foil and finding their way barred by the police, just as happened at the demonstration in April.
Once again, the protest was confined to Lord Warden Square, where half-hearted attempts to obstruct coaches were easily thwarted by the police.
It didn’t occur to the hard-of-thinking far-right attendees that these vehicles might actually have had nothing to do with migrants and could well have been there to pick up and deliver passengers at the nearby Cruise Terminal.
The police, for their part, were unmoved when informed by a furious little chap called Jay Martin (of the “British Security Project”) that they were breaking section 3 the Treason Felony Act 1848 by inciting and encouraging foreigners to invade the UK. Plot twist: he may not have been a lawyer.
Lurking
Lurking in the background, as ever, was Chris Hauley from Sittingbourne. Jay Mills was present, with a purple-haired female friend; and “John Ri” seems to have turned up too.
Also there was Liam Tomsett, from Heathfield in East Sussex, who has been prominent in the recurring anti-migrant protests at Crowborough.
He was accompanied by Sharna McNicholas, a sometime aspiring pole-dancer from Crowborough who has been in a relationship with Tomsett (who is some 12 years older than her) since December.
The loved-up pair were also present at April’s Dover demonstration.
Overdoing it
Shayne Wiskin seems to have been present only in spirit on Instagram. Later in the day, he announced on his socials that he and the missus were off “on a well deserved break with no kids”.
Good idea – he’s clearly been overdoing it lately and stretched himself a bit too thin.
Harry Hilden stayed at home in Faversham, topping up his tan and inviting his online supporters to join his latest wheeze, a fitness club for combat training.
And “Missus Kent” wasn’t going anywhere in this heat, being six-months pregnant.
A proportionately small anti-racist protest, organised by activists from Thanet, Canterbury and Dover, and featuring a drummer, kept a dignified vigil in Dover Market Square.
Around 20 fascists were spotted wandering around the town centre in dribs and drabs – presumably struggling to find their own demonstration, so poor was the level of organisation. Attempts by some of these individuals to start trouble with the counter protest were easily rebuffed.
Counter protests
The far right really hadn’t chosen the best day to do this – the start of a sunny Bank Holiday weekend, with cross-Channel holiday traffic overwhelming the new EU digital border, forcing cars to queue for nearly four hours to get into Dover.
And it was so hot that even the most committed anti-migrant activist must have been tempted to skip the demo and head for the nearest Wetherspoons to sink a few cool pints.
But this demonstration was never going to be more than a token effort, of course, given the utter incompetence of those organising it.
“Patriots, we need numbers, when we do Dover”, lamented Liam Tomsett afterwards on Instagram.
Organisational genius Shayne Wiskin helpfully chipped in: “we need be there every weekend, I’m calling us to all sit down over call and put our heads together”.
Then he offered to organise a face-to-face meeting (fat chance that will ever happen).
Unfortunately for Dover, a clearly much better organised far-right event in the town is planned for Saturday 4 July.
Then, the Pink Ladies (UK Official faction), led by Deloitte consultant Orla Minihane from Essex, will be turning up.
And yet another anti-migrant event in Dover has been announced, for Saturday 25 July – this one, for a change, has actually been organised by local activists (including Dover-based Pink Ladies splinter group “Kezza’s Pink Patriots”).
It’s going to be a long, hot summer for anti-fascists on the Kent coast.
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