Patriotic Alternative is the UK’s most active fascist organisation. Here’s what you need to know about the group, its extremism, links to the now-proscribed terror group National Action and its association with violent individuals.
“Patriotic Alternative remains small, with an active membership in the low hundreds, and is desperate for relevance. As a result, it downplays its extremism when dealing with the public and tries to co-opt existing local concerns as their own.
Because PA is highly active and relatively well organised there is a risk it may succeed in inflaming local tensions, growing its brand in the process. However, the large majority of the public would run a mile if PA was honest about what it stands for – crank conspiracy theories and a fetish for the Third Reich.”
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