If you’ve read our piece on the mickey mouse Border Force vigilante ‘Active Patriot’, you might recall that we described how in June 2020, he “partially relocated to a BnB in Dover whose owner is sympathetic to the far right” in order to pursue his “migrant hunter” grift. This photo may remind you: This is the First & Last Pub and Adventure Backpackers Hostel, East Cliff in Dover. Active Patriot, …
When we posted an article on ‘The money grabbing ‘Migrant Hunters’‘ a few days ago, we focused on some of their methods, narratives and tactics that these particular British grifters use to exploit the refugee crisis for reputational and/or financial gain. Today, we discuss some of these ‘migrant hunter’ characters in detail – their backgrounds, their views and their activity within the far right. As we already wrote extensively on …
The grifters introduced in this article call themselves the ‘migrant hunters’. These activists aim to capitalise on the nationalist ‘migrant invasion’ conspiracy by ‘exposing the problem’. This consists of showcasing footage of people coming to Dover by boat and the accommodation they stay in, then casting themselves as the hero by harassing ‘migrants’ and hotel staff. The purpose is twofold: to get their footage in the mainstream news and the …
Let’s talk about Alan Leggett, aka ‘Active Patriot UK’. Leggett is currently a leading figure of the far right, and the man lauded by all factions of the far right as ‘exposing an illegal invasion’. As of February 2021, Leggett has some serious online reach – his YouTube account has 51.6k subscribers, his back up YouTube channel has 9k subscribers, and his twitter account has 15.9k followers. But who is …
CW: Racism, homophobia, islamophobia, Covid-19 hoax conspiracies. Following Kent Antifascists’ tweet on Steve Laws, perhaps it’s time to talk a little bit more about him. Meet Steve Laws, a 29 year old “citizen journalist” living in Folkestone who claims to seek to “expose the truth” on the recent increase in refugees landing on UK shores, which mainly involves lurking around Dover with a pair of binoculars for his Youtube livestreams, shoving his camera …