Claim That Epping Protests Are Really A ‘Nazi Pogrom’ Is Classic Left-Wing Conspiracy Theory

This post, authored by Steven Tucker, is republished with permission from The Daily Sceptic

Unless you happened to live in downtown Mogadishu, the vagaries of local politics have traditionally been seen by most as being notoriously tedious and low-stakes in their nature. Regrettably, however, the UK’s catastrophic immigration policies have very much brought Mogadishu to us nowadays. Good news for bored local headline-writers, terrible news for scared local residents.

Last week, I accidentally typed the wrong word in an article about the recent anti-immigration protests in Epping, implying the town was in Kent. This was of course incorrect: Epping is currently located smack-bang in the middle of Somalia.

Venting fury online about another reported rape by an asylum seeker which sparked similar protests in his own constituency of Ashfield in South Sudan, Reform MP Lee Anderson said he was sick of the whole country being turned into “a Third-World shithole”. But the regime and its media cannot possibly bear to admit the truth of what they have done to their own country, and so, rather than tar themselves and their precious refugee pets, prefer to smear a largely imaginary set of villains as being responsible for growing national unrest instead: Nazis. Forget becoming a Third-World shithole. Britain is really in peril of becoming a Third Reich shithole.

Get With the Pogrom

If you believe the true Lügenpresse of the Socialist Worker newspaper, the whole uprising in Essex was a violent Nazi coup-attempt. This is a genuine headline from its report on Epping:

“Pogroms”? Literally nobody got killed. A few police cars got their indicator-lights kicked in, some objects were thrown, and a sign outside the town’s asylum hotel was wobbled about a bit by a group of angry men. The people who got most genuinely injured were the protester who had his teeth smashed out by a cop with a riot-shield, and another one who was apparently knocked down by a speeding police van.

If the Socialist Worker staff want to know what a genuine (Islamo-)fascist pogrom looks like, they could take a quick glance at Hamas’s proud body-cam footage from its October 7th attacks over in Israel; but maybe they don’t even think that was a pogrom, given how the newspaper’s website at the moment also features the below advert for its parent political party, the SWP.

“SMASH CAPITALISM”? That sounds uncomfortably like a call for a violent pogrom to me. Will you liquidate the parasitic kulak property-owning class, Tristram, or shall I?

Signs of the Times

You might expect this kind of student hyperbole from the Socialist Worker, but there have been repeated attempts by more mainstream outlets to paint the Epping protests as having been secretly organised from behind the scenes by a shadowy cabal of neo-Nazis too. Newspaper of record the Times, for example, ran the following comments page doodle from Lefty cartoonist Peter Schrank:

In the drawing, groups of innocent-minded, peaceful Epping mums, kids and grandparents mill around waving signs like “WE’RE NOT FAR RIGHT, WE’RE WORRIED ABOUT OUR KIDS” while, lurking just underground, is their true puppet-master: a thuggish neo-Nazi skinhead, with words like “MADE IN ENGLAND” and “HATE” tattooed across his body. If those were pro-immigrant protesters in Schrank’s cartoon, brandishing SWP “REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE!” placards, and the subterranean string-puller was a cackling rabbi with tattoos reading “MADE IN ZION” and “JUDAEO-BOLSHEVISM”, I think critics would be labelling it an antisemitic conspiracy theory. As it is, Schrank’s actual cartoon looks more like an anti-white conspiracy theory – drawn by a white man.

Conspiracy of Violence

What is the actual media (and police and Government) justification for saying the Epping protests were organised by the far-Right? The paranoid idea goes that, while most protesters were indeed concerned ordinary locals, they were only piped out onto the streets by the online hypnotists of the Essex Nazi Party, who had fed them a pack of migrant-demonising lies.

Consider local mother Lindsey Thompson, who became a figurehead of the protest after being interviewed on GB News. Although blonde and Aryan, Lindsey is not a Nazi. Asked for her reasons for engaging in her ‘pogrom’, she told GB News:   

Our safety has been taken away. … If you’ve got five [migrant] men standing on the street corner doing nothing and they look at [school]girls go past in their gym clothes, it makes you feel very bloody uncomfortable. … We can’t go there [to our usual local jogging-route] now because they sit there drinking all day. … Nothing [will stop us protesting]. It’s our children. [We won’t stop] Until they’re safe.”

This all sounds eminently reasonable, not fascistic, which presents a problem for regime apparatchiks: how to discredit a mother whose only small request of the state is to protect her children from being sexually harassed by random foreigners? One tactic might be that tried by the BBC, in its recent piece ‘Protests leave asylum seekers afraid to exit hotel’, namely to imply that the real victims here are the “asylum seekers”, not the abused white kids. Steve Smith, of activist pseudo-charity Care4Calais, told the BBC:

It’s a pretty depressing situation to find yourself in, when you’ve already been through significant terrors elsewhere in the world. Some of the residents [of the asylum hotel] have told us how they’ve been chased by the far-Right when they simply went out for a walk or to buy milk. It reminded them of the reasons why they’ve been forced to leave their home countries in the first place.

Also speaking to the BBC, the execrable Enver Solomon, Chief Bleeding-Heart of the Refugee Council, accused the protesters of not being the silent majority, as they claimed, but the “violent majority”.

The trouble with this line of rhetoric is that the overwhelming majority of protesters in Epping were demonstrably not violent. Lindsey Thompson was calling for the defence of her local community, not for an attack on immigrants, a kind of reverse-pogrom, really. Most mentally normal viewers and readers will not be fooled by such blatant attempts to transform victims into oppressors and oppressors into victims. A better tactic than libelling mums like Thompson as Nazis, therefore, is to instead admit that concerned parents out on Epping streets are perfectly innocent of all malice themselves, but are unknowingly under the control of much more malign hidden SS men instead, who are operating from deep undercover, like in Schrank’s cartoon.

Homeland is Where the Heart Is

The Left’s chosen conspiracy theory angle centres upon obscure outlet the Homeland Party, a splinter-group from the better-known Patriotic Alternative, which is generally described as being an actual far-Right organisation. A local Facebook group which helped organise the protests, ‘Epping Says No!’, was administered by three Homeland members, something first uncovered by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR), itself an alleged offshoot of the SWP. This revelation was then taken up by the wider mainstream regime media like the Evening Standard and the i and used to imply that the whole thing was conjured up by neo-Nazis from outside the area.    

There are two main problems with this narrative. First, it simplistically assumes that, were there no ‘Epping Says No!’ Facebook group in existence, the Epping locals would not have just prepared their own protests anyway, which they obviously would. Homeland does encourage people to protest against asylum hotels, as the post below proves, but the SWP encourages people to demonstrate for asylum hotels likewise, and you never see any headlines in the media about invisible Marxists controlling and staging the pro-immigration protests, do you? 

Secondly, far from being distant outsiders, two of the Homeland members who administered the Facebook page, Callum Barker and Adam Clegg, were not outsiders at all, but long-time Epping residents. Now, as I wrote last time, Barker does seem to have a dubious past, being photographed in a strange leather mask with the mandibles of a skull hanging down its side whilst holding a copy of the Unabomber’s manifesto.

But nowadays Barker is sensible enough to turn up to Epping rallies dressed like a normie. Homeland’s party line is that, yes, some of their members did indeed have youthful extremist pasts, but have today broken with neo-Nazism for good and just want a sensible immigration policy to be implemented. A Homeland spokesman told the Times, “We reject extremism and oppose fascism in principle and practice” and “advocate for non-violence”, not pogroms.

You can believe the party or not, but, even if its members are sincerely reformed I would have advised them to stay well away anyway – their presence on-site will only have given Enemy Media the excuse to start peddling their exaggerated Leftist conspiracy theories. Barker complained to one newspaper that journalists just “want to make this about me to try to distract from the real issues and to delegitimise the protests”. I agree. So, why attend at all then?

Because, unlike our distant rulers in Castle Westminster, the Homeland Party understands that local issues actually matter to people.

A Local Reich, For Local People

Homeland pursues something called ‘the ladder strategy’, involving getting places on parish councils, etc., serving diligently, proving to locals they can address local issues, then hoping to get elected to higher office – the same sinister strategy for taking over the country long pursued by other noted totalitarian cults like, er, the Lib Dems. Here, for instance, Homeland displays its highly un-Hitler-like enthusiasm for filling in potholes.

Do Homelanders just want good roads for their Panzers to roll down? Online Corbynista-type site Novara Media certainly thinks so, to judge by its 2024 hit-piece: ‘The Far-Right Plot to Take Over Your Allotment.’ A case of Blood and Soil? Not really.

Novara journalists unveil how Homeland plans to spread its “deranged ideology” by putting up candidates for municipal allotment groups and NHS Trusts – God forbid the NHS should become in any way politicised! Another key target for “infiltration” (i.e., democratic election onto) are Parent Teacher Associations, thereby to “prevent somebody who’s pushing the globohomo agenda from being the headmaster” or to forbid teachers from “pushing the George Floyd myth” onto ill-informed, malleable pubescents.

Knowing members won’t form a Cabinet anytime soon, Homeland sensibly focuses on trying to accomplish actual achievable goals instead, the idea being that a lot of small acts eventually adds up to rather a lot – which it does. This is precisely how the Left’s Gramscian ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ has worked. But now the Right wants to try and pull the same (perfectly legal and democratic) trick itself, the Left doesn’t like it.

Maybe, in private, some Homeland members really are still secret Nazis (images and quotes here may suggest so) who wish to do things like exterminate the Jews. But, when sitting on local councils, they are unlikely to try to publicly advance such a hypothetical hidden agenda on the grounds that a) everyone else but the Islamists in the ward would vote against it, and b) local councils don’t have the legal power to re-implement the Holocaust anyway.

In practice, the wholly non-genocidal kind of measure Homeland actually aims to implement is explained by the party’s current Chairman, Kenny Smith:

Back in the mid-2000s during my second stint as a community councillor, I had occasion to scupper the plans of a Labour Party activist who was a fellow councillor. He had just returned from… [an] AGM in Manchester and was encouraged to return with plans to organise a multicultural festival in the town to encourage more integration and more tolerance. … I then got to say my piece and pointed out that we had no problem with integration and tolerance as the community had very few non-indigenous inhabitants, all of whom, got on very well in the community. … I raised the possibility that tensions could actually be raised by suggesting there were problems when none in fact existed. I then proposed that the monies they had earmarked for organising such an event would be better spent upgrading the amenities at the local park for the benefit of all. I’m pleased to say my intervention was successful on both counts.

Well done, Kenny – the ‘Nazi’ was the sensible one there then, not the member of the Labour Party.

In the latest news from Essex, Epping Council has just voted to plead with the Government to close its unwanted and troublesome asylum hotel down. Why? Because of sheer force of local pressure from local people. If the regime doesn’t want to listen to local people, then increasingly, local people will stop listening to it and begin taking matters into their own hands. Friendly local neo-Nazis may well be able to help nudge this process along a little bit, I suppose, but let’s not pretend it wouldn’t be happening of its own accord anyway.   

The only actual pogrom brewing in Epping is a forthcoming electoral one against a failed and bankrupt Establishment. Our rulers may not easily recognise it when they see it, but it’s called ‘democracy’, not ‘Nazism’.

Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.

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