Patriotic Alternative leafletting my home town. Help me out, radicals.

[danny la rouge]

I thought this was a really good piece:

Patriotic Alternative: The town fighting the far-right with Welsh cakes

When Patriotic Alternative started targeting a Welsh town, the community found a way to push back.

www.bbc.co.uk

Was just coming to post that.

 

[bendeus]

Amazing turnout from the counter protestors today. Fash are apparently here in small numbers and we're just trying to find out where they're skulking

 

[ddraig]

Live "reporting" from the shite Wales online here fwiw, just don't read the comments! Or do and counter them

Rival protests as small town torn over plan to house refugees

The pretty town of Llantwit Major on the Vale of Glamorgan coast has become a focal point for debate about how to house refugees

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[bendeus]

Allegedly about fifteen of them. Nowhere near the school site. En route now

 

[bendeus]

 

[bendeus]

 

[bendeus]

Totally outnumbered

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

PA now planning for a demo on St George’s day in the Long Eaton/Sandiacre area on the Notts Derbyshire border. See antifascist mobilisations 2023 thread on this forum. Hopefully they can again be successfully countered.

 

[bendeus]

Looks like they want another bite at the cherry

Far right extremist groups target second protest over refugee housing in Llantwit Major

Far right extremist groups are targeting a second protest in Llantwit Major over plans to house asylum seekers there, Nation.Cymru can reveal. Leaked messages from an anonymous source show that extreme far right groups are sharing an online flyer regarding a meeting involving members of the...

nation.cymru

 

[krink]

How the fuck do you stab someone twice and only get two years? When I was a vandal, my comrade in cans got 5 years for tagging trains? They wanted me to go down for 4 years but the judge accepted my guilty plea deal. So I could've knifed a fash twice and got less. Mental.

 

[MickiQ]

How the fuck do you stab someone twice and only get two years? When I was a vandal, my comrade in cans got 5 years for tagging trains? They wanted me to go down for 4 years but the judge accepted my guilty plea deal. So I could've knifed a fash twice and got less. Mental.

I suspect reading between the lines that the two guys he stabbed (or more likely slashed) were less than innocent in the altercation rather than he set upon a complete stranger but yes he did get off lightly.
I try not to judge people based on their appearance but seriously the photo in the article does him no favours he looks he ought to be jailed on the basis of that photo alone. It positively shouts "Wrong Un"

 

[Dystopiary]

More recently, the Barry born leader was jailed for assault after throwing a female protester down a flight of stairs – a crime for which the group created celebratory stickers.

 

[bellaozzydog]

How the fuck do you stab someone twice and only get two years? When I was a vandal, my comrade in cans got 5 years for tagging trains? They wanted me to go down for 4 years but the judge accepted my guilty plea deal. So I could've knifed a fash twice and got less. Mental.

It’s best to listen/read the judges summing up at sentencing, all the mitigations etc get explained

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Counter demo next Sunday:

 

[hitmouse]

Hope they get a warm scouse welcome on the 22nd.

 

[gawkrodger]

Well PA are currently having a good old split with whole branches leaving

 

[Sue]

Well PA are currently having a good old split with whole branches leaving

Well that's a shame.

 

[splonkydoo]

any good blogs or pages following the far right these days?

 

[hitmouse]

any good blogs or pages following the far right these days?

I was going to say that HNH are usually at least worthwhile for info, but then they seem to have not updated since the end of March so maybe not. Red Flare seem to not really write proper articles, but their social media's good for if you want updates about what PA are up to:

 

[Fozzie Bear]

They have Facebook and Instagram too Red Flare

Hope Not Hate’s podcast was also good for info but there’s not been one since March.

 

[ddraig]

Far Right Watch Wales

On May 7th Swansea is set to play host to a rogues gallery of the far right that it hasn't seen since Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists (pictured in Swansea in 1934 in attached pic) got...

facebook.com

 

[gawkrodger]

Just released - Red Flare initial report into Homeland, the new split from PA

https://redflare.info/Homeland_British_fascism_fractures-RF.pdf

 

[PR1Berske]

Well PA are currently having a good old split with whole branches leaving

Covered here:

Fascist Party Patriotic Alternative in Messy Break Up | Novara Media

Key activists have left Patriotic Alternative after becoming ‘exasperated’ with its leadership - and will now try and get a new fascist party registered by stealth.

novaramedia.com

 

[GarveyLives]

Patriotic Alternative leafletting my home town. Help me out, radicals.

One person who is unlikely to be bothering you for a while is Sam Melia of Pudsey, who stood as a candidate for the far-right For Britain party in the 2018 local elections, after previously marching with the neo-Nazi National Action in Darlington in November 2016. Later proscribed as a terrorist organisation and linked to numerous acts of violence, National Action caused outrage in Darlington by delivering a hate-filled speeches about “driving out the parasite class” of “hook-nosed bankers” while black-clad group members threw up Nazi salutes.

Most recently Sam Melia has been associated in a senior capacity with Patriotic Alternative, being Regional Organiser of their Yorkshire branch, husband to Deputy Leader Laura Towler and amongst its most regular public speakers and broadcasters.

(Source: as stated in image)​

Earlier today at Leeds Crown Court, Sam Melia was found guilty of publishing material designed to stir up racial hatred by running an online library of downloadable anti-immigration stickers, and of encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage.

Sam Melia was bailed until his sentencing hearing on 1 March 2024:

UK man with Hitler picture in home used sticker campaign to stir racial hatred, court told

Far-right organiser found guilty of spreading racial hatred

 

[hitmouse]

One person who is unlikely to be bothering you for a while is Sam Melia of Pudsey, who stood as a candidate for the far-right For Britain party in the 2018 local elections, after previously marching with the neo-Nazi National Action in Darlington in November 2016. Later proscribed as a terrorist organisation and linked to numerous acts of violence, National Action caused outrage in Darlington by delivering a hate-filled speeches about “driving out the parasite class” of “hook-nosed bankers” while black-clad group members threw up Nazi salutes.

Most recently Sam Melia has been associated in a senior capacity with Patriotic Alternative, being Regional Organiser of their Yorkshire branch, husband to Deputy Leader Laura Towler and amongst its most regular public speakers and broadcasters.

Earlier today at Leeds Crown Court, Sam Melia was found guilty of publishing material designed to stir up racial hatred by running an online library of downloadable anti-immigration stickers, and of encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage.

Ah, that's intreresting - Melia accused of being the man behind Hundred-Handers, which at the very least inspired and may have been directly linked to that shitty "White Rose" stuff that was everywhere during lockdown.

 

[Dystopiary]

Ah, that's intreresting - Melia accused of being the man behind Hundred-Handers, which at the very least inspired and may have been directly linked to that shitty "White Rose" stuff that was everywhere during lockdown.

I thought the name was a coincidence borne of ignorance, but perhaps not then.

 

[hitmouse]

I thought the name was a coincidence borne of ignorance, but perhaps not then.

Yeah. I mean, it's speculation and hard to prove anything either way, but the MO's pretty much identical. And that article does also mention "The stickers also contained a wealth of anti-BBC, anti-lockdown and anti-mask messages relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, including: “Live in fear, it makes you easier to control.”" So one to keep an eye on and see if more comes out, I suppose?

 

[PR1Berske]

Homeland, the electoral offshoot of PA, is now registered with the Electoral Commission and can stand in elections:

View registration - The Electoral Commission

 

[hitmouse]

Was meaning to find a thread to ask about this, and here'll do - anyone heard anything about the "National Housing Party"? Think they're meant to have been a bit active in places like Oldham, the list of slogans on their Electoral Commission registration kind of tells the story:

View registration - The Electoral Commission

Oh, and I absolutely promise I'm not AA returning under a new name, but on searching for them (and trying to find stuff that's not just their own to link to), just found this Martin Wright video:

 

[PR1Berske]

Was meaning to find a thread to ask about this, and here'll do - anyone heard anything about the "National Housing Party"? Think they're meant to have been a bit active in places like Oldham, the list of slogans on their Electoral Commission registration kind of tells the story:

View registration - The Electoral Commission

Oh, and I absolutely promise I'm not AA returning under a new name, but on searching for them (and trying to find stuff that's not just their own to link to), just found this Martin Wright video:

Hope Not Hate says that the registered leader of the Housing Party is ex-Britain First