Growth of new Patriotic Alternative group suggests ‘shift towards more openly racial politics’

Posted by DanielS on Monday, 17 August 2020 18:15.

Mark Collett and Laura Towler

British far right ‘becoming more racist’ after Black Lives Matter protests, report finds

Independent 16 Aug 2020:

Exclusive: Growth of new Patriotic Alternative group suggests ‘shift towards more openly racial politics’

The British far right is becoming more openly racist in the wake of a backlash against international Black Lives Matter protests, experts have warned.

A report by Hope Not Hate, seen exclusively by The Independent before its release, said that years of dominance by Tommy Robinson and other figures focused on Muslims was giving way to rising white nationalism.

It found that the growth of the new Patriotic Alternative group, which openly calls for non-whites to be ejected from the UK, suggests a “shift towards more openly racial politics”.

Author Simon Murdoch said far-right activists were becoming “much more extreme ideologically”.

He said the increase in migrant boat crossings over the English Channel and anger over so-called “cancel culture” had an impact.

“The biggest backlash has been to the Black Lives Matter movement,” the researcher added. “There is more willingness to discuss race generally across the far right now.”

Large protests following the police killing of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May sparked a deluge of racism and anger on far-right social media networks.

Claims that demonstrators were to target the statue of Winston Churchill and other monuments in London, after a slave trader’s figure was torn down in Bristol, culminated in a violent protest by groups claiming to “defend” them.

Police and journalists were attacked and some protesters appeared to perform Nazi salutes, following smaller clashes elsewhere in the UK where demonstrators were filmed making “white power” gestures and shouting: “Why don’t you go back to Africa?”

Mr Murdoch said that dominant groups and activists in the British far right, such as Robinson, have focused on Islam in recent years and left overt racism to the “extreme fascists” like banned terrorist group National Action.

But the rise of the Europe-wide Identitarian movement and spread of a conspiracy theory claiming that white people are being “replaced” by non-whites has influenced extremists in the UK.

“There’s this move from people previously focused on other topics like Islam, and alongside that is a contingent of the young British far right who have been embracing more extreme and traditionally fascist, white nationalist and antisemitic ideas,” Mr Murdoch said.

He warned that the younger group are active in online networks that have greater reach than the “old guard” of National Front and British National Party (BNP) supporters.

Patriotic Alternative was formed last year by the BNP’s former director of publicity, Mark Collett, and has been attracting activists from across the far-right spectrum.

Its growth has sparked concerns it may unite competing factions from the fractured extreme right-wing scene in Britain.

Last weekend, it held publicity stunts displaying “white lives matter” banners across the UK to to tie in with the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and leaders are planning a third national conference in September.

On its website, Patriotic Alternative claims that “native British” people are being eradicated and proposes extreme measures to protect “the indigenous peoples of the United Kingdom”.

It says it would call a “complete halt” to immigration and pay people “of immigrant descent … to return to their ancestral homelands”.

Patriotic Alternative claims that children are being exposed to pro-LGBT and anti-white “propaganda” and advocates home-schooling using its own package of hateful material on “history and culture”.

Patriotic Alternative’s website calls for non-whites to ‘return to their ancestral homelands’

Mr Murdoch said the group had attracted support from figures previously active in neo-Nazi groups, but also those with backgrounds in “more moderate” movements.

He warned that Patriotic Alternative was “trying to give the friendliest possible face to extremely fascist ideas” by using veiled terminology.

But Hope Not Hate’s report found that private online chats between members were “awash with extreme racism, Holocaust denial and open veneration of fascism”.

It said Patriotic Alternative had “antisemitism at its core” and played into conspiracy theories claiming Jews are orchestrating the “replacement” of white Britons.

One post by a supporter seen by The Independent reads: “British people are white. They aren’t brown, black, Asian or Jew.”

Hope Not Hate also found Patriotic Alternative had links with the UK-based Hundred Handers group, which incites people to spread racist stickers around the world with slogans including “Western civilisation is white civilisation” and “Stop immigration, start repatriation”.

Mr Murdoch said it appeared to be capitalising on a “sense of rootlessness” in the British far right during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Black Lives Matter, the anti-government elements of coronavirus and the economic downturn are grist to the mill for them but they’ve lacked a sense of direction,” he added.

“Despite grossly exaggerating their size and influence, Patriotic Alternative could be the group that unites the fractured, ageing UK far right, injecting it with young activists.

“They could present a real threat given their extreme views.”

Comments:

Posted by James Goddard / Mark Collett: Live on Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:57 | #

James Goddard With Mark Collett: Politics, News & Nationalism

Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:37 | #

In fact, the Conservative government’s new immigration policy will begin on 1st January 2021, at the moment, we are still in the ‘interim period’ with free movement within the EU.

... flooding the country with cheap foreign workers who are coming in at a rate of 15,000 a day..
(Mark Collett)

We know about the 15,000 a day, arriving by air, because they were not being quarantined on arrival. What we don’t know is why they were coming to Britain. However we do know where many of them were from - northern Italy, Spain and the United States. There was also a handful of flights from Wuhan and Tokyo and passengers on those flights were put into quarantine.

Patel had wanted to close the borders sooner but the Foreign Office wanted to keep the channels open to help repatriate British citizens from abroad, who would otherwise be stranded.

I can never get through a full stream featuring Collett, whose cavalier treatment of facts and disinformation might play well with a young audience but when I hear bullshit I just want to turn off.

Posted by Glorious Dead on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:14 | #

Posted by Patriotic Alternative: Are We The Bad Guys? on Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:28 | #

Are We The Bad Guys? Feat. Laura Towler, Mark Collett, The Ayatollah and Horus

Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:42 | #

Laura the tea lady gives ‘a personal update’...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0kzWQAUQk

Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:44 | #

‘Hitler Youths’. Collett, Dangerfield, cited here. I believe “The Telegraph” is running with this.

https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HnH_Hitler-Youths-report_2020-09-v2.pdf

Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:52 | #

In fact it’s The Times who are running with it.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:40 | #

From your link, Manc:

Far right recruiting children on YouTube

Extremist far-right groups are using livestreaming events on YouTube to recruit children as young as 12 to spread their message.

Counterterrorism experts say that a growing number of “extremely young” British teenagers are being drawn towards neo-Nazi and fascist ideologies by groups targeting them online.

Tactics include live interviews on YouTube with teenagers who are considered rising stars of the far right, livestreamed chats aimed at the “Gen Z” age group born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, and the exploitation of computer-gaming platforms.

Groups using such tactics include the Patriotic Alternative, a fascist organisation founded last year by Mark Collett, 40, the British National Party’s former director of publicity. The group calls for anyone who is not white to be ejected from the UK. It has encouraged a 16-year-old, whom The Times is not naming, to run “Zoomer Night”, a regular livestreamed event as part of its “Patriotic Talk” series.

... Police believe that the far right constitutes the fastest-growing terrorist threat to Britain and have foiled a spate of attacks in recent months.

Last week a 17-year-old was found guilty of planning a terrorist attack after he became obsessed with Nazis and white supremacists and began researching converted firearms so that he could emulate the Christchurch massacre.

Last month, Harry Vaughan, 18, a pupil at Tiffin School, a grammar in Kingston, southwest London, admitted sharing bomb-making manuals online after police found neo-Nazi material on his computer.

The leader of a neo-Nazi group called The British Hand that threatened to carry out an atrocity in the UK to eclipse the Christchurch mosque shootings is also believed to be a 15-year-old British boy.

... Laura Towler, deputy leader of Patriotic Alternative, said: “It is not our intention to ‘recruit’ anybody because our way of thinking is already widespread. It is simply our intention to provide a voice for the millions of people who already agree with us.”

YouTube said: “We have strict policies that prohibit hate speech. We terminate channels that repeatedly or egregiously violate our policies. After updating our guidelines to better address supremacist content, we saw a fivefold spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels .”

So the Establishment line is HnH + all the usual self-proving hate-labels + the reification of a “terror threat” of angry early teens + the therefore “justified” social media attack on nationalists advocating online. That’s the best they can come up with. No attempt to rebut PA’s political message and, of course, absolutely no attempt to understand why any of this dissent is happening. The presumption for multiracial inevitability cuts that off.

The Establishment is seeking to justify the unjustifiable through dehumanising dissent to it. They are upping the existential ante continually, and that’s not a sustainable strategy.

Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:23 | #

HnH in particular have been running a manipulative campaign to camouflage Muslim extremism by claiming the biggest threat to the country is coming from the “far right”. For their part, government needs a supposed threat from “white extremists” it can clamp down on to demonstrate to Muslims that they are not being “Islamophobic” when dealing with the very real and deadly threat of Islamist terrorism.

Posted by mancinblack on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:14 | #

‘The Danger of a Cashless Society’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8uNPCXqI-w

Laura Towler explains the difficulties she and Mark Collett have recently encountered with the banking system.

Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:44 | #

Gavin Boby on ‘Mark Collett and Laura Towler bank cancellation’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyP-nQ8sAM

Posted by Manc on Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:29 | #

Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism.

Parkin is to be reviewed along with other local favourites like Yorkshire Tea over their potentially problematic ingredients.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/20/parkin-probed-council-links-cake-colonialism/

lol Yorkshire Tea = Imperialist Bastards.

Parkin is traditionally eaten on Bonfire Night. Where’s Guy Fawkes when you need him ?

Posted by Manc on Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:48 | #

Tim Willis, Conservative councillor for Worthing,, has been suspended over his support for PA. HnH making a meal of it…

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/conservative-councillor-suspended-after-he-is-revealed-to-be-a-supporter-of-a-fascist-group-1.521126

Posted by Al Ross on Sat, 09 Oct 2021 03:36 | #

Parkin is traditionally eaten on Bonfire Night : Lucky Molly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Parkin

Posted by Al Ross on Sat, 09 Oct 2021 03:39 | #

I prefer Ted Willis , or at least his vision of London’s East End and by extension , England , when he created Dixon of Dock Green

Posted by Manc on Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:25 | #

Welcome to the Twilight Zone….

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/piers-corbyn-appears-on-neo-nazi-s-show-and-discusses-the-jewish-question-1.521991

Posted by Manc on Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:14 | #

A little light reading for a long winter night.

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2021/11/26/patriotic-alternative-britains-fascist-threat/

Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:55 | #

Got to put something on the fire now that wood-burning is set to be illegal.

Posted by Manc on Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:36 | #

Yes, well, PA will burn faster than Zip firelighters I suppose.

Posted by Al Ross on Sat, 11 Dec 2021 02:33 | #

That may be correct , PA’s capital is now so Black and Woke that the Liberty Bell may soon be melted down and made into costume jewellery for the Congoid lovers of American Democracy.

Posted by Al Ross on Sat, 11 Dec 2021 02:44 | #

Mea Culpa : Harrisburg is PA’s capital . It had its own Three Mile Island melt down.