Following the illegal immigration protests, Farage has just announced in the Telegraph the Reform policy of banning those balaclavas and other face coverings - he calls the coverings a ‘menace’. A remarkably tone-deaf reaction to such effective peaceful protests. He says there will be those that ‘will inevitably bleat about civil liberties and personal freedom’. Yes. Yes, there will be. Because what will happen to a young working class lad who goes on one of these peaceful protests? He will get dragged out across social media, the mob will hound his place of work, he will have his life ruined. That’s not the worst case scenario, either. That is a knock on the door at 3am, and then prison. Unfairly locked up, for months and months. Farage has all the wealth anyone can want. He can protect himself when expressing his opinion. I can do the same. I know that. A young plumber? Bricklayer? Factory worker? They can’t. They have a wage packet they cannot afford to lose. It's their communities that have been bastardised, their streets colonised, their town overrun. I'll be honest. I don't witness the consequences in the same way as working class communities do. Neither does Farage. THAT is why these men are so pissed off. Rightly so. THEY are the ones who have to live with the decisions. Not us. Not the MPs. Them. Their families, and their communities. For them, anonymity may be the difference between exercising their democratic rights and staying at home through fear of losing their job. I don’t like face coverings. I hate seeing them. But I hate the invasion FAR more, and if new lawful methods manage to make progress where politicians have failed, then that is a price worth paying. We are living in a very different Britain now. That's just a fact. A peaceful protester should not be forced to surrender his anonymity merely because politicians dislike their lawful methods and it makes them feel a bit uncomfortable. Get over it, to be honest. Civil liberties and personal freedoms matter - they matter most when defending people without Farage’s money, platform or protection. Reform’s reaction to these protests has been arrogant and offensive. Farage labelled them ‘disgusting’, Tice said they were ‘disgraceful’ and Jenrick said the police need to be ‘as robust as possible’ against the protestors - if Reform were in power, the police would have been all over these men. That is EXACTLY why they covered their faces. Their concerns perfectly outlined by the Reform leadership. Farage says the coverings at the protests are ‘not the British way’. We tried that, and it didn’t work. Until an election, it won’t work. The protests worked. They did not stop the boats, but they worked. Galvanising a nation against the invasion that we all want to end. Face coverings are worn on every city street, every day. Yet it takes an illegal migrant protest for Farage to make a huge deal about the ban being Reform policy. These working class men and women have every right to lawfully make their voices heard, and Restore Britain stands with them. The right to peaceful protest cannot become a privilege reserved for people wealthy enough to survive being publicly identified. I will defend that right, and Restore Britain will defend that right.