One of the far-right activists who travelled to Southport on Tuesday night was Matthew Hankinson, an unrepentant neo-Nazi terrorist, who was jailed for six years for his membership of the proscribed neo-Nazi youth group National Action (NA).
Posts on Hankinson’s account on X (formerly Twitter) reveal he was present at the riot, where he took photographs and recorded videos of the violence. In one gleeful post, which included a video of a burning police van, Hankinson wrote: “‘Piggy in the middle’ Police vans trapped between English People showing solidarity in the face of foreign terror get set on fire by misguided Patriots who take vengence (sic) into their own hands. ”.
Before he was jailed, Hankinson lived outside St Helens in Newton-le-Willows.
NA were proscribed in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox MP after one of them posted “649 to go” on Twitter and they set the title on their website to “Death to traitors, Freedom for Britain”, the slogan said in court by Jo Cox’s killer.
Hankinson’s first post on X includes the same slogan and says: “Those who take issue with the Righteous and Just sentiment of these Noble words are those same subversive Traitors that are oppressing and destroying Britain.”
After NA were proscribed, Hankinson continued to be involved and was present at a meeting in a Wetherspoons where the now convicted neo-Nazi paedophile terrorist Jack Renshaw shared a plan to murder his local MP. Renshaw was jailed for life and must serve at least 20 years in prison.
The violence in Southport on Tuesday night, where far-right activists and racist locals rioted in a grieving community, has sparked a wave of anti-migrant violence with disorder taking place in London and Hartlepool last night and anti-migrant protests in Manchester and Aldershot. More protests are planned around the country over the coming days.
We revealed fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) were one of the groups behind the protest which turned violent in Southport on Tuesday evening. David Miles (aka Jack The Nipper) from the West Midlands, was one of the PA activists to have travelled to Southport.
Miles could be seen facing down riot police, wearing a t-shirt featuring the slogan ‘Free Sam Melia’. Melia, PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser, is currently serving a prison sentence for producing racist stickers. The protest was promoted by PA’s Wales regional organiser, violent football hooligan Joe Butler (aka Joe Marsh). Butler has a series of convictions for stabbing football fans and attacking women.
Leading politicians are discussing responding to the Southport riot by proscribing the English Defence League, an organisation which has not existed for more than five years. Hankinson’s presence shows that state bans won’t stop neo-Nazis from being involved in violent disorder.
Source: Red Flare
DN Note:
Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s regional organiser for Wales is Joe Butler, also known as Joe Marsh, a leading figure in the Pie & Mash Squad hooligan group. Butler is a violent fascist and football hooligan who was jailed in 2015 for attacking a female anti-austerity protester in central London the previous year.
The Pie & Mash Squad have been responsible for several attacks on left-wing activists, including an attack on a squat and an attack on a 12 year-old girl and her father. The attack on the squat in January 2017 was led by the Pie & Mash Squad who were joined by supporters of the now-banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action (NA). The squat mentioned was Belgravia ANAL Embassy a £15 million mansion in London’s bourgeois Belgravia neighbourhood which had been opened up to rough sleepers.
Patriotic Alternative activist David Miles in Southport, 30 July 2024. One activist to bus into town was David Miles (AKA the English Wanderer) from Birmingham, a core member of Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active fascist group. Miles somewhat unwisely posted pictures of himself at the event on social media.