It’s Time to Expose the People Behind Hope Not Hate
It’s time to expose who’s behind Hope Not Hate, the powerful ‘non-sectarian’ campaign group that hounds Right-of-centre politicians, says Toby in the Spectator. And not just because one of its ‘political organisers’ turned out to be a paedophile. Here’s an excerpt.
A couple of weeks ago, Hope Not Hate called for my “association with Epstein’s circle” to be “scrutinised” because I sent a couple of emails to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 and 2002, long before Jeffrey Epstein was accused of being a paedophile. That attempt to smear me was quite bold because it has since emerged that a “political organiser” for Hope Not Hate, a former Labour councillor called Liron Velleman, pleaded guilty to child sexual offences last year. According to the BBC, he sent a police officer posing as a 13 year-old girl online a video of his penis and asked to see pictures of her in her underwear.
I’m not the only Spectator contributor to be targeted by this “non-sectarian” lobby group. In his 2023 review of Prevent, Sir William Shawcross revealed that counter-extremism officials were shown material from a Hope Not Hate dossier on Britain’s “extreme Right-wing” that identified Rod Liddle, Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray as journalists guilty of “mainstreaming” far-Right ideas. Douglas later revealed that after he wrote something criticising the organisation, it got in touch and offered to remove his name from its latest hit-list if he took down his piece.
Not that its transparent animus towards anyone to the Right of Ed Miliband has stopped Hope Not Hate embedding itself in Whitehall. [Chief Executive] Nick Lowles was a member of the Home Office’s Commission for Countering Extremism and has given evidence to the Intelligence and Security Committee on far-Right terrorism and testified to various Home Office departments about trends in “online hate”. In 2022, Liron Velleman appeared as a witness on behalf of the group before a Parliamentary committee scrutinising the Online Safety Bill, warning about the risks of anonymity on the internet. He should know, I guess.
Since the 2024 General Election, Hope Not Hate has become even more enmeshed with the Labour party, with one of its former directors, Baroness Anderson, becoming a Government whip. Another Minister with close ties to the organisation is Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, who became friends with Nick Lowles when they both worked with Searchlight, an “anti-fascist” group which Hope Not Hate emerged from.
Holier-than-thou Lefties like Jolyon Maugham often complain about the ‘Tufton Street mafia’, a reference to centre-Right thinktanks. They claim these sinister organisations should be more transparent about who their donors are. But none of them can hold a candle to Hope Not Hate when it comes to wielding influence in the corridors of power. It’s time we learned more about who funds it – apart from the taxpayer, of course.
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“Non sectarian”
The left has pulled off a great trick – to portray what they purport to believe as just normal, sensible, kind, right thinking that nobody decent could possibly disagree with – and that this is NOT politics. Politics only happens when some far right extremists dare to question any of this. They have achieved the removal of a great deal from the sphere of what is considered legitimately debatable. A lot of the middle class have fallen for this.
They pulled an even better trick before that.
Basically, after WWII they took the stinking turd that was nationalist socialism, called it far right and have since then proceeded to call anything they don’t like far right. As the nationalist socialists and fascists of the 30s were evil, and supposedly also far right, then everything far right is evil.
It’s an amazing trick, which has ensured since then that anything that isn’t socialism is evil. After decades of indoctrination, pretty much everyone is a socialist now.
If you try to explain that the Nazi’s and Fascists of the 30s were socialists, you just get a very confused, blank look. If you ask where free market libertarians sit on the political spectrum you get an Error 404.
Yeah I know very few free market
libertarians in real life, maybe none
actually. A friend of mine who is interested in politics described Meloni
as “far right”. I asked him what that meant and he was unable to explain. He has two university degrees- which is two more than me. He was just repeating what he had read.
Liberalism and democracy are left-wing ideologies German right-wingers of the 1920s considered to be forced onto them by foreign powers seeking the undoing of Germany.
A university degree, or two, does not mean you will not come second to two short lengths of wood.
Intellectual laziness
I’ve always likened politics to a clock face with the centre at 12 o’clock and totalitarianism at 6. If you start at 12, no matter which way you go, left or right, socialist/communist/ national socialist or conservative – openly fascist, if you go far enough, you end with totalitarianism.
As COVID should have amply demonstrated, totalitarianism is a method of government readily employed by anyone who seeks to go against the truth for his own benefit and anyone obviously includes almost all of our so-called democratic politicians.
I think it’s less complicated than that, essentially libertarians are of the right as they want to have the smallest government possible and allow people to make their own decisions and live their own lives.
The left, who are essentially fascist, want everything to come from the state and people to do as they’re told.
This marks them as an extreme form of liberals and hence, they belong to the far left end of the politial spectrum. Especially considering that their goal is eerily similar to Marx’s idea of communism established on earth. BTW, here’s a Wikipedia article about how democratic governance is supposed to work in socialist states according to Lenin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism Short version: A committee based bottom-up system. The committees (“soviets”) at the lowest level are elected by the people themselves and each committee elects some of its members to the next higher committee and so on, with the central committee (of the party) being the top of the hierarchy. This central committee elects members of the political bureau and a general secretary presiding over that which handle day-to-day politics. Another important principle is that each committee can also withdraw its present delegates to the next higher committee and replace them with others, again by voting accordingly. That’s not always how this works out in practice but its firmly rooted in the left-wing idea to trust in intelligently laid-out institutions and not people and on voting by majority. That’s a un-fascist¹ as anything can possibly be. ¹ A fascist state is a top-down… Read more »
In the 1920s, Hitler was what would today be called a right-wing populist. He even wrote about “seeking to provoke the left” with the specific way public gatherings of the NSDAP were announced in public in Munich. Alfons Hugenberg from the DNVP (German Nationalist People’s Party, reactionary monarchists) invested huge sums into the 1932 election campaign of the NSDAP which – among other things – enabled Hitler to tour all major German cities in person via airplane transport. In 1933, Paul v. Hindenburg, former imperial general field marshall, legendary war hero of Tannenberg 1914 and president of the Reich at that time appointed Hitler on recommendation of Franz v. Papen (DNVP) as head of a NSDAP – DNVP minority government where the DNVP held a majority of the ministerial posts.
All of these people, including Hitler and the NSDAP, were sworn enemies of the German socialists, by that time composed of the reformist SPD and the revolutionary KPD.
^^ Alfred Hugenberg.
Lefties and nonces go together like chips and butties.
Lefties have been engaged in thuggery for years, the biggest being the trades union. I worked in a closed shop years ago, you either did what you were told, if not you would be kicked out, lose your job and be reduced to poverty. It was their MO in the 50s to 70s. They caused strike after strike and were complicit with the socialists in destroying industry. I found myself at odds with them so I told them to shove it and resigned before I was pushed. Best thing I ever did and I still feel sorry for my old mates who had no choices.
I visited the National Coal Mining Museum some years back, 2020 I think, with my two children. They’re all retired miners taking you down, giving the tours. With the exception of one old miner, who was very cheerful and evidently loved recounting several very interesting and amusing tales, they were all bitter, angry, miserable blokes. And they all seemed bitter, angry and miserable with each other, not just the visitors.
I think it had dawned on them – far too late – that the very organisation purporting to represent their interests had, in fact, done the opposite, and intentionally so. And that the aim of “getting rid of nasty Maggie” had all been a distraction technique. And they had realised that they had all fallen for it, perhaps having denied it to themselves and each other for many, many years.
Yes, I heard someone from up north saying something similar years ago. He said Thatcher offered them good terms and the unions just hanged on for the sake of it. In the end he said he got enough money to eventually buy his own house. It’s hearsay but that’s what I understood.
Norman Tebbit said that when they got into Downing Street they had to turf out the Trades Union people who were still trying to dictate matters. The damage these people did is monumental and they are still at it.
Did the unions have KGB backing?
Nb Milliband is doing the same job now, different method, same end point.
Most of the big leaders were more at home in Moscow than London.
Probably, there were always suspicions, probably well-founded.
In the late 1960s I was a very young member of the local Musicians Union committee. The district organiser, who had a day job as shop steward in a Coventry car plant, was regally entertained to an annual holiday in (presumably a Potemkin area) of East Germany.
Hate Not Hope is a madleft anti-white and anglophobic organisation dedicated to The Great Replacement. In other words, It supports and promotes white genocide. This is why it targets the opponents of white genocide with the lying designation “far right”.
I genuinely struggle to understand these people. They’re like someone who sets fire to the downstairs flat, to smoke out the people in the upstairs flat, apparently not realising they too are living in the same building… utter madness.
It’s this eternal dichotomy in politics. The left scream continuously about political violence and to prove their case, they hold up the tragic murder of an MP by someone who was obviously deranged but spouted right wing propaganda. In truth it was always the Conservative party conference and now the Reform conference that is targeted with violence. I have never seen a protective covering needed at the entrance to a Labour conference like was needed at the Tory meetings to stop projectiles raining down on visitors, nor effigies hanging from railway bridges. It was the Tory office in London ransacked and fire extinguishers thrown from the roof onto the street below, regardless of who was walking along it. No-one tries to shut down left wing media outlets by inventing lies and threatening advertisers, as the left do to GBNews. I have never understood why the left are called the progressives when they are anything but, seemingly wanting to oppress everyone and drag us back to the stone age with their climate lies and their infatuation with dark age religions and practices. Progression is not achieved by state oppression and closing down free speech and debate.
Years and years of brainwashing.
Socialism is basically robbing Paul to feed Peter. It is a system entirely reliant on violence.
They have to justify it somehow. So the socialist is good, and their targets are evil. No other way around it.
I’m not sure why it matters that one person involved in Hope Not Hate is an alleged paedophile.
I don’t like that game. What Hope Not Hate do is despicable in and of itself and in my view not made worse because of the private practices (also awful) of one of their people.
Just as if, for example, I think Restore is a good political organisation worth supporting because of its ideas and objectives, that doesn’t change in the event that one of their people turns out to be a bad apple in his private life.
Not to worry, Lord Toby, because you’re in good company about sending emails to Grisly in 2002, as US First Lady Melania Trump also did in 2002, years before marrying Donald:
2002 Melania Trump Email to Ghislaine Maxwell Emerges in Latest Epstein Files Release
Melania has ‘spent less than 14 days’ at the White House since Trump’s inauguration | The Independent
“Hope Not Hate dossier on Britain’s “extreme Right-wing” that identified Rod Liddle, Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray as journalists guilty of “mainstreaming” far-Right ideas.”
Maybe those ideas were mainstream, not far right, which is the catch all insult thrown by the leftwingers.
As I’ve said before, I think the Overton window is used by the left to pretend it has shifted radically to the left when in fact it’s not much different over many, many years.
Most people are conservative in the sense of static or upward mobility. simply because nobody in their right minds would vote to have their standard of living diminished. This is exactly what has happened since the Blair creature and his band of awful people gained power, the problem is that the MSM keep telling people lies. Although there does appear to be those with differing opinions the outcomes are always the same, people are poorer in general. GDP is up but GDP per capita is down.So Labour’s left wing thugs are funded by sinister people in order to give the impression that there is popular dissent amongst the populace. It’s all smoke and mirrors. So we live in a world where there appears to be choice but the outcomes are always the same or downwards in the past 30 years.
incidentally in Latin Sinister is Left whilst Dexter is Right.
Hope To Hate is my preferred name for this bunch of fools.
Hope Not Hate demonstrates very regularly that it is a very hateful organisation.
It hates anyone who doesn’t conform to its extremist left-wing view of the world and accompanying language strictures …. and seeks to destroy their lives.
It’s a pernicious cultural Marxist organisation which the taxpayer should not be funding at all.
It is worth following Charlotte Gill to see the extent to which the public purse one way or another supports organisations like these and additionally who the sinister funders of their fellow travellers are – I hope that if Reform are doing their due diligence they are doing their deep diving to see how deep these tap roots are