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TV commentator Narinder Kaur was escorted away by police after being confronted by right-wing protestors in central London. Footage shows the on-screen personality being led away by officers in Knightsbridge near Hyde Park at a counter-protest against the planned UKIP demonstration. Earlier this week, the Met had imposed restrictions on the UKIP demonstration, banning supporters from entering the borough of Tower Hamlets in a bid to prevent 'serious disorder' and instead directing them to Marble Arch. Left-wing counter-protesters were told to continue their protest as planned in Whitechapel and not enter areas of central London where the UKIP march would be taking place instead. Mrs Kaur told the Daily Mail: 'Almost instantly, I was surrounded, hoards of men closed in, shouting vile racist and sexual abuse, calling me a “P**i,” jeering if I had any knickers on and saying I should be “taken off the streets” and “remigrated.”' She added: 'The crowd kept growing and it became a tsunami of noise and pure rage, it was like being circled by a pack of angry wolves. 'I could see the hate in their eyes and for the first time in years, I genuinely felt unsafe on a British street.' The TV presenter said officers 'rushed over' as it 'became clear I was in danger'. 'I’d come as a peaceful observer, not an enemy,' she added. 'What happened today shows how fragile things have become in this country. Nobody should need police protection just to walk through a public street. 'But until this kind of hatred is challenged head on, it will only get louder.' She also claimed that protesters were chanting 'get Narinder Kaur off our streets'. Speaking at the demonstration, Mrs Kaur said: 'Tommy Robinson, Nic [Tenconi] from UKIP, they are causing divisiveness and hatefulness. 'Brown and black people feel unsafe right now. My parents came to this country, and they've contributed to this country. 'We're British, and if you're truly British, if you are patriotic, you want to bring peace and bring communities together. 'You don't want to cause division, and you want to say immigrants are welcome because Britain needs them.' In Whitechapel, a group of masked Muslim youth dressed in black, with hoods up and their faces covered, took to the streets as Bangladesh and Palestine flags were waved at the demonstration, where UKIP had originally intended to march. One protester at the Whitechapel demo took to a microphone promising to 'stand firm' in defending their community from far-right protesters. 'They came specifically targeting Islam,' he said. 'They said, "we are coming on a crusade", they said "we need to take back our streets". 'We stand firm to let them know if you come, we will stand firm and will be ready to defend our elders, to defend our women, to defend our community. 'We have never once said we were going on crusades or going into your areas to cause you problems. 'You are coming into our homes and you want to cause us problems. What is wrong with us standing up? 'Today is a day we unite,' he said to a crowd chanting a series of messages in Arabic. At the Marble Arch meeting four left-wing protesters believed to be supporters of campaign group Stand Up To Racism were arrested by Met Police officers in Hyde Park Corner after defying the police ban in an attempt to confront UKIP protesters. Elsewhere, outside the London Oratory, a Catholic church in Kensington, 75 UKIP activists gathered at 1pm before their march towards Marble Arch, with many holding Union Jacks, crosses and signs reading 'Islamist invaders not welcome in Britain'. They were led by UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, carrying a banner which read 'Islamist invaders not welcome in Britain' while others at the protest carried wooden crosses. They could be heard chanting, 'hail the nation, deportation” and “send them home,' as well as 'who's the King of Britain? Christ is King!'. Tenconi also rejected allegations of fascism, telling protestors that his grandparents had fled fascist Italy. A wedding guest was also left irritated by the demonstration due to marchers 'massively disrupt[ing] proceedings' outside a church. 'The bride is just shattered,' he added. UKIP protest attendee Martin Ponting, 45, said the march was about 'sending a clear message'. 'We live in a two-tier country. Why couldn’t we be in east London?,' he said. 'But we’re here instead and we’ve had enough.' A Met Police officer told the Daily Mail that the turnout for the protest was much smaller than expected. The protest finished with a speech by Tenconi under Marble Arch, where he called for a 'ninth crusade' against Islamism and Communism. During the speech, a man wearing a keffiyeh, a type of scarf commonly associated with the pro-Palestine movement, entered the area. Police were forced to quickly intervene during the confrontation, as the man was chased across Oxford Street. It is unclear whether the man was a counter-protester or had entered the area unintentionally. Earlier this week, Met imposed Public Order Act conditions on UKIP demonstrators, preventing them from holding the protest anywhere in the borough of Tower Hamlets on Tuesday. Previously, the force banned the demonstration from its planned site in Whitechapel, an area with a large Muslim population, with officers saying there was 'realistic prospect of serious disorder'. The march is part of a series of events taking place across the UK which were promoted as a 'mass deportations tour', with organisers calling on attendees to 'reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists', UKIP's X profile said. The counter-protest, organised by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) and other local groups, amassed from 12pm in Whitechapel, east London. A spokesperson for the force said: 'Four counter protesters who appeared along the route in breach of the conditions in place and refused to leave have been arrested.' UKIP leader Nick Marcel Tenconi said earlier this week on X: 'We will confront the communists at Hyde Park Corner. 'We will march to Marble Arch and I will give my historic address with the communists and Islamists flaying in the background outraged that we have once and for all finally stood up to them. 'They will be met with Christian courage and it will be glorious. Patriots, this is just the beginning. Saturday the 25th of October (tomorrow). The Crusade begins. Commander Nick John, who is in charge of public order policing in London this weekend, said: 'Our role in relation to the policing of protest is to ensure that they take place peacefully, that offences are dealt with, that they do not cause excessive disruption to the ordinary lives of local residents, visitors and businesses and to ensure that where there is a prospect of disorder we take action to prevent it. 'The risk of such disorder can be elevated if groups with clearly opposing views are allowed to gather in close proximity to each other, particularly if they do so in the heart of a residential area at a time when tensions and fears in relation to hate crime and similar offences are heightened. 'We intervened earlier this week to use our powers under the Public Order Act to prevent a protest taking place in Whitechapel due to the prospect of serious disorder. 'This was not a "ban" as it has been described in some coverage and commentary, but a requirement for the protest to move if it was to go ahead. 'We have used the same power on many occasions over the past two years when policing demonstrations by various groups.' Public Order Act conditions also ban members of the UKIP march from protesting before 1pm or after 4.30pm. Mr John urged people planning to attend either protest to familiarise themselves with the conditions, warning that anyone breaching them, or encouraging others to do so, could be arrested. Elsewhere, the Jewish community welcomed the news of the march restrictions. Demonstrations previously broke out in Whitechapel in what is now known as the Battle of Cable Street in 1939. Local Jews, communists, trade unionists and anti-fascist protesters banded together to face off against fascism.
