Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: Part One
by Karen Harradine, TCW:
THIS is not the first time I have expressed my concerns about the increasingly baleful influence of the registered ‘charity’, but in fact activist outfit, Hope Not Hate (HNH). Its original purpose in 2001 was to counter the rise of the British National Party (BNP). Its declared mission today is ‘to work tirelessly to expose and oppose far-right extremism’ as though that was the major threat to society today. Its undeclared but barely disguised mission, as I will argue in these articles, is to position itself as the definer of political discourse and arbiter of free speech.
This ideological thought control aim became clear in 2017 when HNH negatively associated Brexiteers (over half the adult population of this country) with racism and the ‘far right’. By 2019, they had totally lost their way, justifying their existence by extending and distorting their definition of far right to anyone to the right of Jeremy Corbyn. And just as day turns to night, they have subsequently raised the spectre of Tory ‘Islamophobia’ based on a naive embrace of Islamism and determination to classify any critique of the religion or its anti-democratic activists as ‘Islamophobic’, segueing neatly into a new definition of ‘far right’.
It’s a deceit that slipped the notice of both Tories and the newer Reform UK and making them a sitting duck for HNH’s favourite offence archaeology activities. Candidate selection has proved an easy target, with Labour alone apparently exempt. HNH has capitalised on the party’s amateurish mistake of not vetting all of its candidates properly but has also tarred others with perfectly legitimate views and concerns with the crime of wrongthink.
Gloating over these political scalps, HNH’s confidence has never been higher as they openly boast that they will be campaigning against political candidates who cross their ‘red lines’. How I wonder does that fit with being a charity?
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