Deputy Tory party chairman and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson says protestors are 'not far-right extremists'
The initial protest had been triggered by an allegation that a man had made inappropriate advances to a local teenage girl.
Several hotels in Skegness have since been boarded up ahead of a planned further protest against their use to house asylum seekers. "These are not far-right extremists, they are just normal family people from some of these towns and villages that are upset that overnight 200 to 300 young men have arrived.
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