Guido has chronicled the deep Labour links of political campaign group Hope Not Hate, the influence of which is now felt at the highest ranks of the government. Its boss has a new book out…
Nick Lowles, chief executive, is on tour promoting his new tome about “how to defeat the far right.” The book goes big on attacking the “dehumanising language” of racial insults and stereotypes. Who could disagree?
Hope Not Hate is conducting on-ground tactical instruction for budding Labour activists to take on Reform. Unfortunately for Starmer’s communications strategists the leftist campaign takes a dim view of his decision to brand Reform “racist” for the first time…
“We really need to be thinking more carefully about what we’re saying beyond ‘Reform is a racist party’ because that message isn’t cutting through to the majority of voters. We might feel satisfied with ourselves but we’re unlikely to achieve very much if we’re thinking about actually changing constituency results.”
To that end the Labour-linked group has produced its own new segmented analysis of Reform voters based on data it has collected from 45,000 people. Remember – this research is presented at private senior Labour HQ meetings…
Hope Not Hate’s segmentation of Reform voters is as follows:
Hope Not Hate says the last group is crucial to target as they are furthest from Reform’s so-far declared policy agenda. The operation warned activists that momentum for Reform in the large-scale 2026 local, Senedd, and Holyrood elections would give it a clear route to Number 10. You bet…
Tory MP Jack Rankin has written to the CEO of the Charity Commission demanding it investigates Hope Not Hate for possible breaches of its charitable status. Bad news for the Labour-linked group…
Rankin writes:
“Hope Not Hate Limited is purely political operation with a reported history of fabricating security threats, spreading disinformation and pushing smear campaigns…it seems incompatible with the charitable requirement to further public benefit in a balanced, non-partisan manner.”
Guido has long been chronicling some of the group’s more eyebrow-raising messages…
Read the letter in full below:
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The links between lefty outfit Hope Not Hate and the Labour government are increasingly being called into question after Starmer’s latest reshuffle, which saw acolytes of the organisation promoted to senior ministerial roles. The group’s long-term comrades are now in high office…
The group called for the incoming government to “engage with the pro-Palestine movement as a legitimate form of democratic participation and protest,” complaining that pro-Palestinian street protests had been “villainised.” It said that: “long-term democratic backsliding as well as targeted curbing of dissent from British Muslim communities in particular has played a huge role in the demonisation of their participation in the pro-Palestine ‘mob’. The Government must…actively support and engage with [the protests] as a form of legitimate opposition that has a rightful place within the norms of a healthy democracy.” A view massively at odds with reality, as popular outrage about the actions of Pro-Palestine hate marches led for widespread calls for them to be disbanded…
Last year the group said: “It is clear that [the government] are not only grossly negligent in enacting solutions, but are part of the problem. The conflict in Israel and Palestine has become another pawn they can play to draw in the most extreme fringes of their support base, revitalising Islamophobia tropes to feed a culture war that they think will win them an election, all at the expense of the safety and wellbeing of British Muslims.” Yikes…
Hope Not Hate previously condemned “political and media narratives around ‘grooming gangs” which falsely insinuate that, disproportionately, white girls are abused by Pakistani, South Asian or Muslim men.” Prior to the media explosion of the rape gangs scandal, that did not age well…
The heavily Labour-linked group also accused media organisations as “spreading misinformation” for reporting things which were in fact true – including reports by ITV News and The Times in February 2023 that four teenage asylum-seekers in Dover had been arrested for an alleged rape. The articles were correct, though about a week later police said the boys were released without charge…
It’s a sorry record that is causing difficulties for the current Hope Not Hate alumni who populate the Labour government. The Chair of the Labour Party for instance…
Hope Not Hate recently released a special report called ‘The 2024 Riots: One Year On’. As ever with the Labour-linked group, it is selective at best…
The anniversary coverage gently glosses over Hope Not Hate’s own role in promoting alarm over what it called a “hit list” of far right protest targets that its own director later admitted was a “hoax”. During the riots, Hope Not Hate drew attention to what it called a “hit list… for action up to and including terrorism” at 39 law firms and immigration advice centres. The list caused national panic…
A Telegram channel had posted a list of the 39 supposed law and advice offices to be targeted. But some of the names were law firms that no longer existed, at least two were private homes, and one was a government agency that has not existed since 2013…
Nevertheless, Hope Not Hate’s Director of Research, called it a “hit list of aspirational targets that calls for action up to and including terrorism… Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict exactly which, if any, of these locations will be targeted by far-right rioters or come under physical attack. Any and all services should be on high alert.” Responding, the BBC ran stories using Hope not Hate’s “hit list” terminology. Ministers were asked about it on the Today programme. The Guardian newspaper put the story on its front page. Shops and businesses, not just immigration services, closed or boarded themselves up. Six thousand riot police were deployed or put on standby…
But the actions did not materialise. Hope Not Hate’s chief executive, Nick Lowles, was reported in The Guardian as saying: “I think it’s a hoax…The list has been compiled by one man in Liverpool, who simply googled immigration law firms etc. No-one is organising the local protests and there is very, very little chatter about it on the forums and WhatsApp groups that have been key over the past week. It’s had more circulation from the left community groups than the far right.” He later tweeted: “Yes, the list was a hoax, but just look at the front pages of today’s papers [filled with pictures of all the counter-demonstrations]. An anti-racist message is being message is being transmitted to millions of homes this morning.” Funny to miss all that out…
Reform MP Danny Kruger welcomed adult film star Bonnie Blue’s support for the party, adding:
“I’m not going to be judgemental about people who want to vote Reform. We want all the support we can get – quite like Bonnie Blue.”