There must be a lot of sad, bored people in the North West. Hot on the heels of the avalanche of (manufactured) outrage over a small group of activists having a social drink in a pub in Oldham, comes another non-story involving the BM from Colne in Lancashire. Colne is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle which had a population of 17,943 in 2021 according to the census. The town is 6 miles northeast of Burnley.
Using the headline ‘British Movement propaganda slammed in Colne town centre’, the Lancashire Telegraph article described how ‘residents have been left “disgusted” after a spree of BM propaganda appeared in the town centre.’ The article, which was penned by a Mr. Jack Stott, a trainee digital reporter on the Telegraph, only managed to find one ‘resident’ who was offended, along with a local councillor who said that the issue “was multi-faceted and he did not want to see fly-posting across the town.”
The local resident was named Michael Leigh Williams, who had posted about the stickers on his Facebook account, telling his friends to take them down or scratch them off. He told the paper, “I was absolutely disgusted. There is no place for that rhetoric.
“There are always one or two that have taken it too far. They are all over the high street, and they are stuck to signposts and bus stops, and where they are congregating on the high street. You can’t ignore them.”
“Michael says he has recently been assaulted for questioning someone on their political views and fears that tensions in the area have continued to heat up. He said: “It is fascist, and it is so dangerous. It is genuinely getting worrying, and there is tension everywhere.”
Reading Williams’ do-it-yourself guide to removing/defacing any stickers he comes across and his rehash of the history of BM, leads me to conclude that Mr. Williams is of a left-wing persuasion. Selfies of himself on his Facebook page show a morbidly obese individual who, it would appear, is on first-name terms with the staff of his local fast-food takeaway and MacDonalds. Exercise and physical fitness are strangers to this fat fool.
The one thing that we would agree with Williams and the Telegraph on is that the BM is growing, especially after the publicity following the recent attack on our activists in the North West by Greater Manchester Police. A flood of enquiries has come in from across the region from men and women looking to find out more about British Movement and National Socialism.
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All Images: Michael Leigh Williams on Facebook.
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