When anti-asylum demonstrations have so much support from the mainstream, a smarter, more tailored message is needed, says campaigner and barrister David Renton
Most of the people who turned out at the anti-asylum demonstrations in my city would have been equally at home fighting a rival band of football hooligans. There were a few bitter oldies of the sort who loudly proclaim their fealty to whatever Farage’s current vanity-project party is called, but most of them are young men looking to threaten and hurt people.
It may not be diplomatic to call them fascists, but that’s what nearly all of them are, knowingly or not.
Most of the people who turned out at the anti-asylum demonstrations in my city would have been equally at home fighting a rival band of football hooligans. There were a few bitter oldies of the sort who loudly proclaim their fealty to whatever Farage’s current vanity-project party is called, but most of them are young men looking to threaten and hurt people.
It may not be diplomatic to call them fascists, but that’s what nearly all of them are, knowingly or not.
Hooligan or thug is not synonymous with fascist though? Or what are you saying?