Thread by @GregoryDavisHNH

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In our new report on Britain First, @HOPEnothate reveal that their #Wakefield candidate Ashlea Simon said "English people can't be black. English blood is white".

But Simon is claiming that her account was hacked or the comment was fake. So let's look in to that...

1/ You can see Simon's comment in context here. She was responding to another another Telegram user who asked for Britain First's ("BF") opinion on a recent tweet from former UKIP leader Gerard Batten.

3/ It was part of a string of comments posted by Simon that day responding to questions from other group members, none of which give any reason to believe the account was hacked:

4/ Since being confronted with the evidence by the Daily Mirror, Simon has gone back to delete the offensive message. But she didn't delete the other messages from that day, suggesting that those were not the work of a malevolent hacker.

5/ So if Ashlea Simon's Telegram account WAS hacked, it occurred for less than a minute between 23:31 and 23:32 in August 2020, happened while she was using her account, and the sole activity was to add one racist comment into an otherwise unremarkable conversation...🤔

Britain First reject any accusations of racism but, as our new report reveals, the group is riddled with extreme racism, violence and thuggery from the leadership down.

You can read the whole report here:

hopenothate.org.uk/2022/06/20/bri…

Having pretended that the quote is fake, Britain First are now hiding behind the costs of legal action to explain why they aren't suing us. But it's not like they haven't grifted their supporters for similar sums of money to fight fruitless legal battles in the past.