Cannydc wrote:Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel tweet support for offshoot of US group accused of anti-Islam views.....
A number of Conservative MPs have praised the work of a new UK rightwing youth pressure group that is said to have links to far-right conspiracy theorists, and has in the US been accused of anti-Islam views and connections to racism.
On Sunday, MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel tweeted supportive messages for Turning Point UK, the offshoot of a controversial organisation established in the US.
The UK outpost is headed by George Farmer, a Conservative donor and son of a Tory peer, who has been pictured socialising with Paul Joseph Watson, a senior editor at the far-right conspiracy theory website Infowars, and frequently retweets him. Watson has also praised Turning Point.
Infowars has argued the 7 July 2005 attacks in London and the 2012 Sandy Hook primary school
massacre were faked. Its founder, Alex Jones, is being sued by bereaved Sandy Hook parents.
UK Jewish groups have previously criticised UKIP for allying with Watson and Infowars over concerns and allegations that the website also spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Farmer has also used Twitter to question Islam and call Jeremy Corbyn “Jew-hating Jeremy”. Other messages called the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, a “Grade A twat” and a “virtue signalling cuck”, and called two US Democratic politicians “retards”.
On Islam, Farmer tweeted: “Can anyone explain to me why you need so much protection when you convert out of the religion of peace? Asking for a friend.”
Farmer, whose father is Michael Farmer, a multimillionaire financier and longtime Tory donor, has also given money to the party, and attended fundraising events.
Several Conservative MPs have approvingly retweeted the group’s initial message. “This could be huge,” said Steve Baker. Patel, a former international development secretary, said: “A new generation standing up for political & economic freedoms & Conservative values & beliefs. Fantastic!”
Another MP, Bernard Jenkin, said: “This is the future”; while Rees-Mogg said: “The left has no monopoly on the ‘young’.”
Among other people to praise the establishment of Turning Point UK was For Britain, the anti-Islam party set up by the former Ukip leadership contender Anne Marie Waters, which said it hoped to support the group.
Always nice to see who Tory MPs support, who funds them, and to get a good idea where the 'Labour and Corbyn are anti-Semites' garbage comes from.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... g-point-uk