Antisemitic wingnut Kate Shemirani was the main speaker at today’s “Resist And Act For Freedom” protest in central London https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1298975332821737472">https://twitter.com/bobfrombr...
Kevin Corbett is an ex-nurse, not a medical doctor. (His PhD is in Social Sciences, from London South Bank University.) Among his beliefs: that the “dominance of abstract art” is a form of “McCarthyite witch-hunt” and that extra buses for kids is “Nazi”...
...Like the other anti-maskers, Corbett loves to compare public health measures to the Nazi Holocaust (which is a softcore form of Holocaust denial)
...It’s a claim Kate Shemirani has also made https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/suspended-nurse-at-the-centre-of-anti-lockdown-protests-called-nhs-the-new-auschwitz-1.506453">https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/s...
Mark Steele is an ex-convict from Gateshead who has spent the last couple of years harassing local council employees because he believes 5G kills animals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steele_(conspiracy_theorist)">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark...
In 2018, Steele it was a speaker for the far right Democrats and Veterans Party on the subject of 5G Networks. He’s also involved with various far right movements in the North East. https://twitter.com/mhtwafa/status/1307451009078362115">https://twitter.com/mhtwafa/s...
McCrae gained some notoriety for threatening @Femi_Sorry at a Brexit rally last year https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/23/kings-college-london-to-probe-allegations-of-lecturer-niall-mccrae-verbally-abusing-remainer-femi-oluwole">https://www.theguardian.com/education... https://twitter.com/cockneycampaign/status/1307333083180544000">https://twitter.com/cockneyca...
Del Bigtree, appearing via video link, is an anti-vaxx hero https://twitter.com/patrickhilsman/status/1281304742833139712">https://twitter.com/patrickhi...
and is also big on Infowars https://twitter.com/vorkoz/status/1281310268547567617">https://twitter.com/vorkoz/st...
Other speakers: Mikael Nordfors, Swedish physician who has been investigated for malpractice; Sherri Tenpenny, says MMR causes autism; Andrew Kaufman, natural healer who says vaccination is a form of genetic modification...
The insane pro-Trump conspiracist movement QAnon also had a small presence as the demo again. https://twitter.com/shayan86/status/1307338516909654019">https://twitter.com/shayan86/...
The anti-mask movement seems to have hooked up with some semi-mainstream hard right politicians such as ex-UKIP London Assembly member David Kurten
The way that the anti-mask movement links up apolitical people concerned about the virus with the semi-respectable post-UKIP hard right and with outright fascists and antsemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust deniers is pretty scary, IMHO.
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