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Proud Boys Britannia formerly known as Proud Boys UK is a largely irrelevant British-based spinoff, considered "an embarrassment" within the wider movement due to its Fred Perry uniforms, rituals, language and adolescent humour.[1] Originally founded as Proud Boys UK by former US Marine Paul Yates while living in Manchester, the group held a 2019 summer camp in Yorkshire attended by about 20 activists, turned up at a few Tommy Robinson demonstrations and engaged in a little light stickering before vanishing into even further obscurity for a couple of years.[2] During this wilderness period the group was most noteworthy for purchasing black-and-yellow Fred Perry polos for their North American brethren when the company, unhappy with the association, pulled them from the market there.[3] When the group later returned it had created a branch structure for its handful of activists. And although it now avoided public demonstrations[4] they occasionally meet up in small groups in pubs.[5] It did, however, achieve some notoriety calling Labour Party leader Keir Starmer a "paedophile/serial killer protector" a pushed the claim that he failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.[6] As well as acting as a social club, the group posts childish and misogynist jokes and memes to the 2,500 subscribers to its Telegram channel.[7]
- ↑ CASE FILE: Proud Boys Britannia Hope Not Hate
- ↑ State of Hate 2020: Far Right Terror Goes Global Hope Not Hate
- ↑ Proud Boys in U.K. Buying Fred Perry Polo Shirts to Ship to U.S. by Jacob Jarvis (30 September 2020) Newsweek
- ↑ State of Hate 2022: On The March Again Hope Not Hate
- ↑ State of Hate 2023: Rhetoric, Racism & Resentment Hope Not Hate
- ↑ Far right celebrates after Johnson repeats ‘Savile slur’ in parliament by Mark Townsend (5 February 2022) The Observer
- ↑ State of Hate 2024: Pessimism, Decline & the Rising Radical Right Hope Not Hate