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 …
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 …