I think there is a concerted attempt to pull the wool over your eyes about what’s really going on, says Patrick Christys

One of the people whipping that up was the director of the hard-left Hope Not Hate group, who this morning tweeted: “Yes , this list was a hoax, but just look at the front pages of today's papers. An anti-racist message is being transmitted to millions of homes this morning.”

He later retracted this tweet.

Then this morning out strolls our Met Police Chief Mark Rowley, like the cat who got the cream.

Firstly, we can’t call what happened last night ‘counter-protests’…because there was nothing to protest. What was it? The ghost of the EDL?

Secondly - the country’s top crop has just given the green light to people to come out in force on the street and mob up.

There was a huge pro-Palestine presence - the same group of people who have been rampaging through towns and cities for months now causing all sorts of problems.

There have been 10 arrests in Croydon, and we’re told, don’t worry, that was nothing to do with any riots or protests, that was just ‘anti-social behaviour’…yeah alright…

So what happened last night appears to have been a massively exaggerated national threat, that brought loads of people out onto the streets with these placards appearing everywhere saying ‘refugees welcome’, the establishment media piles in behind it to make it look like the nation fought off the Nazis.

And today Sir Keir Starmer feels he can shamelessly ignore people’s concerns about immigration, and crack on.

The term gaslighting is defined as being: To manipulate people using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning.

I think we’re being gaslit, aren’t we?