{"id":85517,"date":"2025-08-31T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85517"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:46:44","slug":"this-is-what-terrorism-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/31\/this-is-what-terrorism-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what terrorism looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image is from Twitter<\/a>, yesterday:<\/p>\n

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As The Guardian reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked men attempted to enter a hotel housing asylum seekers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

At about noon, two anti-asylum groups marched to the Crowne Plaza in Stockley Road, west London, and a group of men in masks attempted to enter the building through the rear entrance and damaged security fences, the Metropolitan police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Three things.<\/p>\n

First, please do not tell me that the cross of St George is not being associated with racist attacks, because as this image of racist actions shows, it very clearly is, and that, I suggest, is precisely why it is appearing in other places around England. Any excuses offered for the rash of flags appearing in England at present are very obviously false in that case. As was the case with the British National Party, the EDL, and other far-right fascist groups, this flag is now being associated with the far right and with both fascism and racism, and no excuses can be made for its use in this way.<\/p>\n

Secondly, why isn't the use of this flag in this way being proscribed? The English flag is being desecrated by people intent on racist terrorism, because that was what was going on at this hotel yesterday, when there was a deliberate attempt by some to enter the building to intimidate those who were in it, because no other consequence was possible as a result of their actions.<\/p>\n

Third, why isn't Labour, and why aren't the Tories all over the media condemning such demonstrations? They call those who challenge climate change terrorists, but in their opinion, those who actually want to overthrow the UK state as we have known it, and make it into a fascist regime, are apparently allowed to go about their business unimpeded by our government and the official opposition, as if they're quite happy to condone these actions.<\/p>\n

Have they already given in to fascism?<\/p>\n

Is that what we have to conclude, because it seems that way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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