The claim that protestors outside asylum hotels are all just ‘concerned citizens’ is a lie.

Concerned citizens don’t perform Nazi salutes, as happened at protests in Falkirk. Concerned citizens don’t unfurl banners reading ‘Kill ‘em all’, as happened during the same Falkirk protest.

Concerned citizens don’t set light to hotels with other humans inside as happened during anti-immigration protests in England. Concerned citizens don’t attack police, as we’ve seen repeatedly.

Such actions are the behaviour of far-right extremists at best, or Neo-Nazis at worst.

Anyone standing alongside such people besmirches themselves. If you’re in the same group as those performing Nazi salutes, inciting murder, or trying to kill people in arson attacks, then you’ll be tarred with the same brush, and judged by association.

Read More:

A Reform councillor shared the spotlight with a far-right extremist in Falkirk. Claire Mackie-Brown, who quit the Tories to join Reform, was there, as was Richard McFarlane, from Patriotic Alternative, deemed ‘a fascist organisation’.

McFarlane told the crowd: “Keep Britain white”. The event was organised by Connor Graham who has a conviction for assaulting a police officer.

Tory shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick, recently attended an anti-immigrant rally. In one of the pictures he shared, is Eddy Butler. He was a key British National Party strategist, and former National Front member.

Butler boasted on social media that he was “riding shotgun for Robert Jenrick, pretender to the Tory leadership”.

Butler established a BNP ‘stewards’ group, comprised of skinheads and hooligans to act as ‘security’. This........

© Herald Scotland