UK Far-right activist posted to serve on Trident submarine

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Source: The Observer

Far-right activist posted to serve on Trident submarine

Member of Identitarian Movement ‘due to start work on Navy’s nuclear Trident sub’

Mark Townsend
@townsendmark
Sat 24 Aug 2019 20.59 BST Last modified on Sun 25 Aug 2019 00.00 BST

Two members of the Royal Navy, including one who is due to start work on a Trident nuclear submarine, are members of a far-right group with links to a banned terrorist organisation, the Observer can reveal.

An undercover informant, who infiltrated the UK branch of the pan-European Identitarian Movement and had access to thousands of internal messages, met a Royal Navy sailor who revealed that he was about to take up a posting on a submarine armed with Trident nuclear missiles.

The meeting, involving an informant for anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, took place at the annual conference of Generation Identity UK in London on 27 July.

The Identitarian Movement, which is fiercely opposed to mass migration, has expanded rapidly in the past two years and has at least 63 “regional branches” of varying sizes across Europe.

The “great replacement” theory was cited as motivation by the mass shooters in the Christchurch mosque attacks, which killed 51 people in March, and the massacre in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month, in which 22 people died.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/far-right-groups-infiltrated-uk-nuclear-submarine-crew

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1. Not quite to the level of Oliver Cromwell shutting down the Rump Parliament.

But it seems like cheating to get his way and very Trumpian. I bet that the queen won't be amused.