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Today, on the ground from Stockport to central London.

Has the far right become a mass movement?

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Do you know where people are going?

You're just following?

It's an overcast Saturday morning at the very end of August, two weeks before Tommy Robinson is planning what he is calling the biggest free speech rally in British history.

And I'm on some playing fields in Stockport, near where I live in Greater Manchester.

Normally this is a part where kids play football, but today I'm surrounded by people in

Union Jack outfits.

One woman, her face painted in the red and white of a St George's flag, is holding a sign

that says, not far right, just a concerned parent.

Do you know where they're going?

I wouldn't tell a news reporter, though.

Okay.

It gets old what I put on to the news on. Don't be silly. Why do you think I'm here to find out what's

going on? Yeah, you're glad I don't know if you tell the tree from. I followed the crowd down

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