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I’m applying for German renationalisation. Like other British Jews, Brexit has put my safety in danger
17/03/2019
We won’t even be close to becoming German by 29 March, but what’s driving me is the same reason my family became British in the 1930s: survival.
'Nigel Farage is far too left-wing for my dad': Caller blames pro-Brexit father for failure of his business [5 mins]
07/02/2023
This caller blames his pro-Brexit father for the "crash" of his business after leaving the single market. / "After Brexit, my contacts gradually dried up, dried up, and dried up so I wasn't getting any more work in Europe."
‘Happy Brexit Day’ sign at Norwich flats said foreign tongues would not be tolerated.
A YouTuber Standing As A UKIP Candidate Invited Supporters To A Gaming Community That Has Chatrooms Filled With White Supremacist And Anti-Semitic Content
15/04/2019
The private gaming community used by a YouTube star-turned-UKIP-candidate to recruit supporters for his European election campaign is rife with white supremacism, anti-Semitism, support for the Christchurch mosque terrorist, and discussions about murdering members of the European parliament.
Andrew Sabisky resigns over eugenics remarks - but Downing Street refuses to condemn comments
17/02/2020
Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky has announced his resignation amid criticism for his past comments which suggested enforcing the uptake of contraception to stop unplanned pregnancies 'creating a permanent underclass'.
Campaign group Tell MAMA said it received 38 reports of anti-Muslim incidents in the week after the now-PM compared veiled women to 'letterboxes' and 'bank robbers'.
The new party has already run into controversy after two figures stepped down over racist social media posts
Areas of UK where more people voted 'remain' saw smaller increases in hate crimes following historic Brexit vote
06/10/2022
Parts of the UK that were against Brexit experienced less of a spike in hate crimes after the vote compared to leave areas, research from Cardiff University shows.
(NOTE: Each of the stories below is sourced from mainstream media, audio or video
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Boris Johnson brings in Iain Duncan Smith and PR guru who ran ‘Islamophobic’ campaign for Zac Goldsmith
26/06/2019
The move has been interpreted as a sign that Mr Johnson is toughening his stance on Brexit.
Boris Johnson published a poem joking about the 'extermination' of the 'verminous' Scottish people
15/06/2019
However, when Johnson was editor of the Spectator magazine in 2004, he sparked outrage in one part of the UK, when he authorised the publication of an apparently satirical poem describing Scottish people as "a verminous race" who should be exterminated.
Boris Johnson apologised again over race issues today after he was accused of condoning an article that claimed black people have a lower IQ.
With the xenophobic fervour they believe Has awakened In The UK ‘Brexit refugees’, who have chosen to leave Britain for Ireland, talk to Simon Carswell.
Racism and race-related hate crime has increased since the 2016 Brexit referendum, with officers appointed to deal with resultant "tensions".
Brexit after Boris
31/07/2022
Boris Johnson became prime minister on the promise that Brexit would bring prosperity and pride. Did it?
Brexit and Donald Trump have left world most divided for 50 years according to St Andrews researchers
08/12/2021
Political divisions across the world are deeper than at any time in the last 50 years, a new St Andrews University-led study has found.
Brexit campaign group Leave.EU has become embroiled in a row over allegations of antisemitism in its promotional materials. / Conservative MP Maria Caulfield has contacted her lawyer over the 'deeply offensive' poster.
The picture of Ms Merkel carried the caption, 'We didn't win two world wars to be pushed around by a Kraut'.
Activist in key target seat of Hartlepool said Muslims are 'outbreeding us' and 'live like animals' - boasting he tried to bury a pig’s head under a mosque.
The Brexit Party has expelled a local councillor and dismissed a part-time official after they were filmed making racist comments.
Brexit Party supporters heckle British-Asian MEP with shouts of 'Go home' during her acceptance speech following re-election to European Parliament
28/05/2019
An MEP of Asian origin was heckled with shouts of “Go home” by Brexit Party supporters during her acceptance speech following her re-election to the European Parliament.
Brexiteer jailed for inciting racial hatred
27/09/2019
A far-right activist and Brexit supporter has been jailed for inciting racial hatred at a series of marches where he branded immigrants and refugees as rapists.
Caller slams Tories for bringing 'horrendous mist of anger' to UK through Brexit [4 mins]
07/03/2023
This caller told James O'Brien the UK is going through a "midlife crisis" and he doesn't want his children to grow up "in this atmosphere".
Conservative Brexiteer pushes far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of 'cultural Marxism' used by Anders Breivik
26/03/2019
A former Brexit minister and leading Conservative MP has been accused of pushing a "far-right" anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the spread of "cultural Marxism" in the UK.
Fazila Loonat says she was racially abused in street after Danny Lockwood’s column.
Former MP says campaign of abuse has intensified after EU referendum ‘allowed things to come to the surface’. / London mayor Sadiq Khan has round-the-clock police protection after receiving a deluge of death threats.
Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. ... An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany.
DOWNING Street has refused to condemn comments from an adviser who once suggested enforcing the uptake of contraception to stop unplanned pregnancies “creating a permanent underclass”.
HOPE not hate can reveal that three Brexit Party candidates in Doncaster are active members of the private Facebook group “Doncaster Brexit Party Supporters Group”, in which racist and conspiracy theorist posts, including claims of an Islamic “invasion” and racist abuse aimed at Labour MP Diane Abbott, are prevalent.
Far Right Flock to the Brexit Party
18/10/2019
In the first instalment of a new series, we look at some of the far right support for the Brexit Party, and ask: what it is about Farage’s ventures that seem to attract so many racists?
Avaaz uncovers 500 accounts using fake news to spread white supremacy message. / A web of far-right Facebook accounts spreading fake news and hate speech to millions of people across Europe has been uncovered by the campaign group Avaaz.
Far-right groups threaten to riot at London protests as Boris Johnson warned over language
06/09/2019
‘It’s time to f*** s*** up,’ extremists threaten after parliament moves to block no-deal Brexit.
Far-right racist admits stabbing Bulgarian man in Tesco car park after shouting he wanted to ‘kill Muslims’
16/08/2019
An alleged far-right terrorist has admitted stabbing a Bulgarian teenager after shouting that he wanted to “kill Muslims”.
Catherine Blaiklock, who co-founded new pro-Brexit party, warned of ‘Muslim enclaves’.
Brexit party leader gave at least six long interviews to Rick Wiles on the TruNews network.
Brexit party leader tells evangelical Christian TV channel of threat from ‘globalists’ and mass migration.
Farage’s fascist past? Nigel boasted about his NF initials and sang ‘gas them all’, claims schoolfriend
11/08/2016
Nigel Farage was proud at the height of Britain’s far right movement that his initials NF also stood for National Front, according to a close school friend who after years of silence says he now wants the public to understand more about the man.
On the heels of her election defeat, Anne Marie Waters has moved to create a new far right party to join the British political landscape.
A 17-year-old German exchange student is in a serious condition in hospital after he was attacked by a group of teenagers, leaving him with severe head injuries that required emergency surgery.
Lewis Silkin LLP partner Brinsley Dresden explains why brands should be careful of using nationalism to try to sell products.
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
Since the Brexit vote in 2016, Ukip is no longer primarily concerned with attacking the EU. Now led by Gerard Batten, the party has started to normalise far-right ideas and has given roles to figures including Tommy Robinson.
Police are investigating a possible anti-Semitic attack after a giant swastika was painted on the side of a business owned by Brexit Party candidate Lance Forman.
This former NHS doctor told LBC that after years of austerity, it was patients' post-Brexit opinion on immigrants that made him leave the profession.
The SNP’s Westminister leader Ian Blackford refused to back down after calling Boris Johnson “racist”, which caused uproar during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
Linda Green’s new novel arose from the racial abuse and hatred she observed after the EU referendum. It’s a Romeo and Juliet for our times.
Irish barrister working in London warns of ‘rising anti-Irish rhetoric in the UK’ in the aftermath of Brexit
22/07/2022
Caoilfhionn Gallagher, an international human rights lawyer in London, has warned of what she fears is rising anti-Irish sentiment in Britain after being subjected to death threats and a personal assault in her chambers.
European election is our chance to confront racism and xenophobia with our vote.
Share your story if you’ve noticed an increase in anti-Irish abuse since Brexit or if British people are supportive of the Irish community.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative MP, has said he feels “very silly” for speaking at a black tie dinner hosted by a man who advocates the repatriation of "non-indigenous" Britons, despite being warned of the group’s far-Right links.
Brexit party leader has given a number of interviews that draw on far-right conspiracy theories.
Catherine Blaiklock sent racist posts and retweeted those of far-right figures before joining Brexit party.
Richard Braine accused of stoking tensions after also saying there are no ‘moderate Muslims’.
Even though immigration from Muslim countries has nothing to do with the EU.
Text calls on member states to tackle discrimination against people of African descent.
Police raid of Dean Morrice’s home found stockpile of chemicals and cache of terrorism manuals.
New Video Shows Nigel Farage Courting Fringe Right-Wing Figures At A Private Tea Party Hosted At The Ritz
21/05/2019
Farage was a guest at the event alongside people who have praised Putin and spread far-right memes. The Brexit Party leader asked them for money and “all the help we can get”.
Brexit Party leader ridicules 'overweight' Queen Mother in speech — and adds that Prince Harry has 'fallen off a cliff' by wedding Meghan.
Boris Johnson’s spokesman has refused to say whether the prime minister thinks black people have lower IQs on average, or agrees with eugenics, after No 10 hired an adviser with highly controversial views.
Amid a spike in hate crimes, Brits reveal what it’s like to be told to leave the country.
The press watchdog has rejected a complaint from Tory MEP Daniel Hannan that the Daily Mirror had distorted his views on race.
A pensioner who told a black woman “when Brexit comes you will be gone” has been fined £600.
Police brace for disorder after far-right protesters threaten to riot on what would have been Brexit day
28/03/2019
Ukip, Tommy Robinson, the UK “yellow vests”, Democratic Football Lads Alliance and Leave Means Leave campaign are holding rallies in the capital, on the day Britain was due to leave the EU.
The “breakaway Brexit idea has fallen apart” leaving Britain without a national narrative – Andrew Marr. / As economic conditions in the UK worsen, Marr argues there is a “very uneasy and angry condition” which could potentially lead to the return of the “racist politics” of the 1970s.
Video found of James Goddard, part of group who barracked Anna Soubry, arguing Islam should be banned from west.
Racism in key Brexit Party campaign
09/12/2019
Undercover filming inside the Brexit Party reveals racism and bigotry from two officials fighting for key Hartlepool seat.
Ethnic minorities in Britain are facing rising and increasingly overt racism, with levels of discrimination and abuse continuing to grow in the wake of the Brexit referendum, nationwide research reveals.
Simone James, who moved to Britain 20 years ago, said she was 'following instructions' and moving back to the European Union
Romanian couple claim Brexit-related hate crime has soared in days leading up to UK’s EU departure
31/01/2020
Dragos and Mirabela Robatzchi who run a cab firm say they have suffered increased vandalism.
By ending the free movement of people between the UK and Europe, Britain has unexpectedly created a record flow of migrant workers from lower-income countries.
The Brexit Party’s Most Senior Election Official Says Tommy Robinson Has Been “Persecuted” And Islamophobia Is “Made Up”
13/05/2019
The Brexit Party has distanced itself from its most senior election official after BuzzFeed News found he had defended Tommy Robinson and repeatedly mocked the concept of Islamophobia.
Assuming a new pose as defender of the people, Liddle rages against liberal remainers and the ‘establishment’ – and is as untroubled by facts as by logic.
Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen?
Tommy Robinson condemned by anti-racism campaigners as he announces plans to stand as MEP
25/04/2019
The announcement was condemned by anti-racism groups who said it was 'just another way for Lennon to line his pockets'.
Tory candidate in Wakefield by-election said Brexit ‘built on lies’ and regretted voting for it
15/06/2022
Nadeem Ahmed also warned leaving EU had triggered racist attacks and backed second referendum, in embarrassment for Boris Johnson.
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel tweet support for offshoot of US group accused of anti-Islam views.
Parts of AfD have been put under state surveillance in Germany for neo-Nazi links. / Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has caused consternation after approvingly quoting the leader of a German far-right party whose senior figures have called for refugees to be shot.
Two thirds of Tory members believe UK areas 'under Sharia law', as poll reveals scale of Islamophobia in party
24/06/2019
Two thirds of Conservative Party members believe that parts of Britain “operate under Sharia law”, a new poll has shown amid a mounting Islamophobia scandal.
Hate-filled platform has no restrictions on antisemitic, misogynist or racist content. / Leading figures on the far right, including Ukip candidates in the upcoming European elections, are encouraging their followers to join a new hate-filled social media platform. The network, called Gab, has no restrictions on antisemitic, misogynist or racist content, and has been used to promote terrorism.
UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad) has produced a disgusting, “deliberately offensive” slur-ridden video.
Ukip leader Richard Braine says he is 'getting a bit fed up with all this dickbraine stuff'
14/08/2019
Ukip’s new leader, Richard Braine, has said he is “getting a bit fed up” with people making fun of his name.
"I moved to England because of its tolerance and open-mindedness. So when I started to see the posters on the windows, when I started to hear Nigel Farage demonising the foreigners, the hatred and racism that was now in plain sight, I started to feel uncomfortable."
Study finds children in England and Scotland experiencing rising racism and prejudice in public after Brexit vote.
‘Happy Brexit Day’ poster telling residents to speak English being investigated as racially motivated incident
02/01/2020
'We are now our own country again and the the Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here', notes say.
Government report on post-Brexit recruitment finds staff citing no health and safety equipment, racism and unsafe accommodation.
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