Where Is the Political and Media Challenge to Britain’s New Far-Right Movement?

The Government endorses flags, while mainstream politicians join asylum hotel protests, and the media refuses to confront why migration has again become the dominant narrative in British politics. It is a dangerous path, writes Adam Bienkov

Hundreds of far-right activists have been threatening to attack hotels housing refugees at events – partly organised by far-right and neo-Nazi groups – which have been attended by opposition politicians. Some of these elected representatives have suggested that the inhabitants of the hotels pose a threat to their daughters.

It is a situation that has affected an entirely innocent British black man and his family, who are living in fear for their lives, after he was falsely labelled a paedophile on a far-right website, still used by ministers. A video of Olajuwon Ayeni playing in a park with his white granddaughters was shared with millions by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (‘Tommy Robinson’), alongside the caption “wtf is even going on here? Where are the parents?!”

The rise of this new, well-organised far-right is facing little serious opposition from the country’s established media- political class.

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