The new tactics of Britain’s far right
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, what's emboldening Britain's far right? |
| 0:22.0 | The far right in Britain have always had the same aim to spread fear. |
| 0:27.0 | We're currently capitalising on local opposition to refugees and trying to co-opt anti-immigrant campaigns. |
| 0:33.0 | Fear of migrants, fear of queerness, fear of feminism, fear of anyone who divests from their vision of Britishness. |
| 0:42.0 | White, straight, Christian and hypermasculine. |
| 0:46.0 | We were campaigning to shelter children from a corrupting rainbow of poison. |
| 0:53.0 | In recent years, they've mobilised mainly online, using both mainstream social media and closed chat groups to share the most bigoted views. |
| 1:04.0 | But in recent months, they've been emboldened and they're back on the streets. |
| 1:09.0 | Outside a hotel giving refuge to asylum seekers, the message from protesters is clear. You're not welcome here. |
| 1:16.0 | They've protested outside hotels across the country where people seeking asylum are staying. |
| 1:22.0 | All men, no women and children, whole hotel is completely packed with illegal migrants. |
| 1:28.0 | Merzy sides are system-cheap, constable labelling the night's destruction as dangerous and disgraceful. |
| 1:35.0 | In London, they've picketed Drag Queen's story hour, a storytelling event for kids. |
| 1:40.0 | They claim that Drag Queen's are grooming children. |
| 1:44.0 | And then protesters gathered outside, they were very upset about it. Some of those protesters quite unpleasant. |
| 1:49.0 | Some of them probably have reasonable objections, but there's a lot of misunderstanding. |
| 1:53.0 | In Oxford this weekend, they joined a protest against the introduction of environmental measures, saying they amounted to a climate lockdown. |
| 2:02.0 | Which has to be consistent to the U. Stand up for your race, stop being profit, not the government. |
| 2:10.0 | And the same day, outside a hotel in Rotterdam, two people were arrested for their part in threatening the asylum seekers inside. |
| 2:22.0 | I'm not here for cremts, I'm not here for war, I'm not here to do something illegal. |
| 2:28.0 | Because if I do these things, why did I come from my country to this country? |
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