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Over the course of a year, a BBC journalist went undercover as Dan Jones, a member of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA). During this time, he attended protests, a summer camp filled with families, a secretive conference, and even received job offers from the group. The journalist recorded conversations that talked about a race war, threats of violence against migrants, and planning to arm themselves. The evidence he gathered led to calls for a police investigation and separate calls to change the law and ban the group.
The journalist chose a fake name and practised his backstory, stating that he was a sofa-surfing delivery rider who had been through a bad break-up, before sending his details to PA. Joe Marsh, the PA’s organiser in Wales and veteran member of the far-right, responded to his message less than 24 hours later. The journalist attended a protest against drag queens in Swansea, where Marsh invited him to meet him for breakfast. After a few hours, Marsh sent the journalist messages on social media.
The group consisted of well-educated individuals, not who the journalist expected PA members to be. Civil servants and NHS workers make up some of the group’s members, and they have leaders in charge of groups throughout every region of Britain, with a centralised leader in Mark Collett. PA has attempted to register as a political party, and it plans to engage in “local activism” to win people’s trust.
After the journalist revealed the evidence he had recorded, calls were made to investigate PA members for inciting racial hatred, and there were demands for the law to change to ban groups that spread hate. PA leader Mark Collett insisted they were not extremists, did not promote violence, and peacefully supported the rights of indigenous British people. The journalist believes that even if PA is banned, groups like them will continue to find ways to spread hate, highlighting the importance of exposing the individuals behind these groups to the public
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