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No room for complacency over the far right
After years of humiliating defeats, Britain’s extreme right is rebuilding – using Covid and social despair in order to pose as ‘champions’ of forgotten communities, says WEYMAN BENNETT of Stand Up to Racism

TOMMY ROBINSON — ex-Nazi British National Party (BNP) member and former leader of the fascist English Defence League (EDL) — and 700-800 of his supporters gathered in the centre of Telford in Shropshire last Saturday.

It was a gathering whose core was made up of fascists and organised racists — some even giving the Hitler salute — that claimed to be standing up for the forgotten white working-class people of the town.

Patriotic Alternative had a banner at the event, as did the hardcore far-right football hooligans of the Chelsea Headhunters. Former members of the proscribed National Action group were also at the Robinson rally.

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