From ‘activist lawyers’ to ‘no go zones’, extremist ideas have become a part of our political discourse, says Joe Mulhall of Hope not Hate
From ‘activist lawyers’ to ‘no go zones’, extremist ideas have become a part of our political discourseAnti-migrant protesters demonstrate in Dover, 5 September 2020.Last modified on Thu 10 Feb 2022 06.01 GMTwrongly accused Keir Starmer of having failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile, many people reacted with a slight sense of bemusement. However, for those of us who research and monitor the far right, it was instantly recognisable.
The best recent example of this has been some of Priti Patel’s rhetoric around cross-Channel migration. In early 2020, the organisation I work for, Hope not Hate, began to closely monitor a small group of far-right activists who spent their days on the beaches and at lookout points around the port of Dover.
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