It was a pretty impressive campaign from @hopenothate. Very targeted, very focused, designed to prevent a criminal extremist getting elected. And it worked. #EUelections2019
Carl Benjamin did enormous damage to UKIP, as did Gerard Batten and his Muslim obsessions and cosying up to extremists. They paid the price too.
Notably Farage didn’t have to talk immigration much this time, but he has an open door - ‘Brexit, betrayal etc’ - notably light on detail (no policies) and still less overall than all the pro-Remain parties. Let’s see where things go now...
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Are we winning the battle against extremism? Or are we losing it? That's the BIG question posed by the new @hopenothate magazine, out later this week. hopenothate.org.uk/magazine/extre…
It's the latest in the revamped editions of @hopenothate magazine, each one asking major themed 'questions' (fear & lies during the pandemic, post-Brexit Britain, and climate scepticism & denial meets the far right) 👇 hopenothate.org.uk/magazine
How should we tackle the threat of rising extremism? Whether from rapidly spreading dangerous conspiracies such as QAnon or posed by teenage terror-advocating gangs using regular social media platforms? It's a question @lowles_nick and I ask. hopenothate.org.uk/2020/09/27/ext…
More evidence of the mistreatment of the Uyghurs in this @nytimes report — Chinese companies used forced Uyghur labour to produce face masks nytimes.com/2020/07/19/wor…
These really are incredible times, but for POTUS it all seems to be about some burn-bridges-at-all-costs desire to win re-election, while cops kill black Americans.
It’s been said before, but anyone else feel Rome end-days right now?
Four teens linked to the group were jailed last year. Bizarrely, I once met the O9A’s leader, for my book ‘HOMELAND’. #StateOfHate bbc.co.uk/news/uk-516827…
You can also get a FREE copy of the magazine – 68 pages rammed with information, investigations and analysis – if you join the @hopenothate HOPE Action Fund.