Jodie Scott, aka MissusKent, is calling on her followers across the country to disrupt council meetings in the way a meeting at Swale in Kent was disrupted before Xmas.

Scott, who has apparently realised it’s pointless trying to hide behind her “MissusKent” moniker now that everyone knows her real name, has posted online exhorting anti-migrant campaigners nationwide to attend their local council meetings and emulate the disorder that occurred at Swale Borough Council’s offices in Sittingbourne on 10 December 2025.

In a video apparently posted during a shopping trip she says:

“When we went down to the Sittingbourne council offices and we made a stand, they listened to us.

“They could see how much we didn’t want these people [asylum seekers] in our communities. We are the people and we will be heard.”

And she promises “We are going to be doing the same here in Kent!”

And it was echoed in a Facebook post:

Just to recap: this is how they made their “voices heard” at Swale, where the council was to discuss (amongst other things) a motion to join the ‘District of Sanctuary’ scheme: the meeting had to be abandoned, councillors were abused, toilets were trashed, a floor of the building was flooded and a lift was wrecked.

The council offices had to be closed to the public while the damage was repaired.

Two teenagers, aged 12 and 14, have since been arrested and both are on conditional bail. Police investigations are continuing.

Yet local anti‑migrant activists have seized on the arrests to cry that “smaller boys did it and ran away”, a playground defence that conveniently diverts attention from the adult agitators who organised and escalated the protest and the presence of masked men amongst the protestors in the council chamber.

Cllr Ben Martin, who was subjected to homophobic abuse during the meeting, has since received phone threats of violence and sexual violence. Police are investigating.

One of those present, it transpires, was Christopher Stansil, a committed anti-migrant activist who has posted material from far-right groups and has been posting half-baked conspiracy memes for over a decade.

In 2015 he was sentenced to a prison term of two years and two months for grievous bodily harm after he smashed a man in the head with a pint-glass at a bar in Hartlepool, County Durham, leaving his victim with brain damage. 

Stansil, who was then an apprentice roofer, had got drunk in the bar after attending a christening.

Teesside Crown Court heard that he had been “getting more and more wound up” as he drank and that “It is thought words were exchanged about homosexuality, before the attacker stood up with his pint glass to ‘swill’” his victim, a 37-year-old father-of-four who was recovering from meningitis and faced the possibility of never fully recovering from the injuries inflicted by Stansil.

Convicted criminals

It has become increasingly clear that the circle around Scott and her fellow organiser Harry Hilden contains more than its fair share of individuals with serious criminal pasts, often of a violent nature. With people like this in attendance at the demonstration, it’s surely unsurprising that events took the turn that they did.

Cllr Hannah Perkin, whose “district of sanctuary” motion triggered the protest, has pointed to online misinformation as a key factor in the mobilisation. Her motion would not have brought any new asylum‑seeker accommodation to Swale, a fact repeatedly ignored by those whipping up anger beforehand.

Limp satire

Across Facebook, the far‑right ecosystem has scrambled to rewrite events. The Swale flagger scene is pushing the narrative that the vandalism was solely the work of the two boys. The Faversham “Flag Crusaders” have attempted to laugh the incident off with limp satire.

More concerning is the activity within the Sheppey Pulse Network, run by charity founder Nicola (“Niquie”) Trower, whose posts after the meeting displayed clear bias in favour of the demonstrators and even accused the local MP of misleading Parliament.

Shifting blame

Comments beneath these posts reveal a disturbing belief that councillors were to blame for the abuse simply for tabling a motion some residents disliked. Others have blamed the council security staff.

Further afield, the incident has attracted obsessive commentary from Francess Kray, a UKIP member based in Southend, who has posted repeatedly in defence of those who disrupted the meeting. Her barrage of Facebook posts, some rambling, some conspiratorial, attempt to shield the aggressors while reframing victims as villains.