Morning, just something first for the paid guys, there’s been a few new people joining recently who haven’t come in to the WhatsApp group. This may be because you’re not bothered about it, but I think some people just missed the link on their welcome email, so I’ll add a link to the bottom of today’s edition, it’s a good one today, worth the subscription.
OK so in a way we can pick up where we left off yesterday talking about NGOs and how governments use them to carry out their policy or nudge public opinion towards something they desire in a deniable manner.
We’ve spoken about Hope Not Hate a number of time on the Scroll and Horizon Scan, they’re an organisation primarily focussed on combating the ‘far right’. They receive funding from a variety of sources donated to a charitable trust in their name. This funding also comes from the UK Home Office Counter Extremism Unit. A couple of days ago they aired a documentary on UK TV about their work infiltrating far right groups, that documentary featured one of their staff going undercover, Harry Shukman. The above is a fake passport for Shukman in the name Christopher Charles Morton, which he used to travel around Europe meeting these far right groups. The question is how did he obtain this passport? There are only two ways. Hope Not Hate obtained it through a third party illegally, in which case there should be prosecutions brought against them and their charity status removed. Or they had the help of a party/parties within the Home Office and Security Services to do so. It is my view that it’s the second option and I will lay out a few reasons why based on what I’ve seen over the past few months. The government would have you believe that the ‘far right’ is the biggest threat to the UK, but we know this is untrue, upwards of 75% of the Security Services resources are focussed on Islamic Terrorism. There is no credible organised far right movement in the UK, or we’d have seen evidence of it - being the major threat we’re told it is the government wouldn’t even need to show us examples of it, it would be obvious, the way the Islamic extremist threat is - If you think the likes of Tommy Robinson and his fans are the far right and a genuine threat to the UK, you’ve yet to understand what astroturfed containment looks like - After the attack in Southport many members of the public had clearly had enough of these obvious examples and mounted protests that inevitably contained pockets of violence. These protests raised tensions around the country, particularly in areas containing immigrant populations, many of whom took to the streets in counter protests or to secure their area, we then saw the resulting violence. Much of the response has been blamed on misinformation and social media posts inflaming the situation, and there are now people serving prison sentences for these posts and for taking part in the protests.