‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right | Immigration and asylum

Bell Hotel in EPPING has seen a lot since it was built as a coaching inn in the 16th century, served to the historical Essex Market town and served London in 15 miles southwest. This was a crowded place with foreigners, even though they were not always welcome – the small green common contrast took the name. a sign Local stories structured To warn the invasion.

Now, although it has been wrapped in the extensions of the 1960s, which has been removed from anything that is approaching charm, it is an unexpected place to lead a potential political crisis – close to the modest building – close to the agricultural land and a crichet field.

However, this week, this week, this week, this is what the government may face after deciding that the home office use Bell Hotel to host asylum seekers to violate planning laws. After the EPPING Forest Zone Council became a glare point for the hotel, anti -refugee protests, a Syrian man was arrested for the sexual assault of a 14 -year -old girl and challenged the government after being accused.

Local protesters and conservative leader Council are joyful, but the effects of the removal of the hotel 140 men calm Places that are not yet known can be much more common. Some of the local authority, some of which are the focus of protests, think of similar legal difficulties that can throw the government’s asylum project into turmoil and leave the home office to “hug” this week.

This case may open the planning law, but there is much that thousands of people see this as a much greater victory after a fiery summer, in which the channel of thousands of channels are re -small on small boats, immigrant protests took place in more than 40 places, and the anti -nationalist and anti -refugee rhetorical, spectrum politicians embraced by politicians throughout the spectrum.

Last summer, there was no widespread rebellion, the murder of three girls in a dance class in Southport and fake rumors that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker. However, as communities were prepared for more widespread protests this weekend, the campaign to raise the flags of St George and Birlik Jack throughout the country gained momentum by declaring what others live in their villages or streets as a clear intimidation. According to Anti-Extremist groups I hope he won’t hate And stand against racism, apparently the spontaneous campaign was actually organized by the well -known far -right figures.

Uz We are for a dangerous moment, Lew Lewis Nielsen, an anti-fascist officer against racism. In the context of encouraging increasing extreme right protests and political rhetoric, he said, ırt Raise the colors of operations’ was never about flags, but about reassuring racists and fascists to aim to target refugees and immigrants. ”

The protests on Saturday were largely without incident. While the demonstrators and the police clashed in the places, there were no civil unrest scenes since last summer. However, refugee and even minority communities are experiencing real results with numerous small but horrific events. In North Yorkshire, Redcar, a black man playing with his white grandchildren was abused racially, and his short video clip was reinforced online by the extreme right activist Tommy Robinson and was wrongly called pedophile. In Eastern Belfast, a small group of wakes are looking for dark -skinned men to seek seeing identity documents or seeing identity documents.

Enver Solomon, General Manager of the Refugee Council, who wrote in Guardian on Friday, said that some food banks that needed before eliminating the perceived “foreigners”. He also said that he was afraid of leaving his accommodation-kolu, who was attacked by a group of men in Northeast England in his 60s.

This was shortly after saying that Keir Starmer said that there was a need for migration harsh sidewalks to prevent England from being the “foreign island”. Solomon wrote: “For decades, those who have worked with refugees for decades said that hostility is so strong and that the environment is so toxic.” Other refugee charities had to build safe rooms or even close their offices in response to death threats and sights.

Since then, Starmer said the word “Foreigners island” as “deep regret ,, but otherwise there is very few signs of the return of the discourse. This week, the spokesman presented a significant approval of the flag collection campaign and described the prime minister as a “patriotic” that believes that people should fly “absolutely” flags.

Meanwhile, conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, women He’s afraid of walking in parks Because he was afraid of being harassed by refugee men. Shadow Minister Robert Jenrick, who is seen as a potential successor as a party leader, was depicted in anti -immigrant rallies attended by the well -known members of the right. “Hate from England ”Councils ask them not to be connected to the street infrastructure. Reform British leader Nigel Farage, Common protests were called Apart from other hotels with new arrivals.

Paul Jackson, a professor of history at the University of Northampton, focuses on extreme right extremism: ık What I worried about, we have seen that it created an opportunity for the right to grow. We have seen that workers’ politicians turned to populist rights and supported them with the principles of concern about the protests.

“There is a lot of concern about the exclusion of the distant right and the limited sounds in the political mainstream. He is calling a different narrative around migration issues. It would be good to see a little more moral leadership instead of pandering.”

Jackson describes a number of factors behind the current situation, including the rise of Donald Trump in the United States. He says that a fundamental factor is a safe collapse of the government’s asylum and migration.

“In the last generation, we saw a safe casting of the government’s policy in the vicinity of migration, and I think this partly thanks to the fact that the mainstream politicians did not speak correctly.”

Sunder Katwala, Director of Thinktank British futureIt points to the lack of government voices that investigate the migration and national identity of the people and push against protests.

“The workers’ government is very quiet about racism this year, because she doesn’t want to sing as if they are criticizing people with legitimate concerns, or he says. “Main current has stopped calling the border call to the right and main center left, and I think reform, conservatives, and sometimes the government now cross the line because they don’t want to criticize what they say.”

Katwala emphasizes that last year’s violence was not repeated in the numerically small protests, and points to the vote showing that people believe that the similar proportions should accept less refugees as they should take less refugees (since the percentage of the welcomed has fallen since 2023, According to Yougov).

Politics may be right and the voices of those who oppose the migration may be higher, but Katwala says: “Long -term tendencies about tolerance to people in ethnic and belief lines in the British society are stronger than other places in Europe or the United States in the UK or the USA.

No sound was more striking than Bebe King’s family, one of the girls killed in Southport, and hit the most justified “inferiority” actions that yakan trying to make political profits from our tragedy ”. Speaking to Guardian at the beginning of this month, Bebe’s grandfather Michael Weston King called on the ministers to rethink the plans to change the law to give the suspects’ ethnic origin and “Kowtowing, which looks like farage and reform,, [which] Perhaps it is extremely disappointed, although not surprising ”.

Katwala says that an important silent majority is tolerant and the recruitment of refugees, but that the ongoing dysfunction in the asylum system is not helpful. “Chaos is not good for refugee protection advocates. So this discussion is definitely interested in the government that shows that it can control asylum while buying refugees, or he says.

“I think the government has to have a visible lack of control in the channel itself and in the towns where people live.