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So why was Charlie Veitch trying to photograph everyone on May Day march?

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Last week, cosying up to racists and fascists in the centre of Manchester
This week, photographing people on Manchester’s May Day march

Last week, YouTube ‘film maker’ and blogger Charlie Veitch was seen in Manchester joking and cosying up to some the most vile fascists in the UK.

This weekend he was out in Manchester again, but this time he was spotted at a May Day worker’s rally in the centre of the city, where hundreds of people, trade unionists and others, celebrated May Day with a march and rally.

Bad influencer

Veitch is well known as one of those online influencers, so called YouTube “auditors”, who like throwing their weight around for clicks and giggles and, of course, for money.

They’re not all political, but the general suggestion is that Britain is broken and that the answer is to stick an unwanted camera in some poorly paid, largely powerless local official’s face.

He’s described as a ‘former’ conspiracy theorist who helped spread false narratives about, for instance, those ‘really’ behind 9/11.

On Saturday, with a typically inane grin on his face, Veitch was working assiduously with two or three others apparently in an effort to film and photograph as many people at the May Day march as they could.

One can only speculate as to why. Perhaps Veitch was unhappy at having to film his buddy Nick Tenconi being run out of town last Saturday. Perhaps it’s more sinister.

We clocked him and veteran anti-fascists kept a close eye on him

But we clocked him and his cronies almost immediately, and veteran anti-fascists kept a close eye on him throughout proceedings.

So, if you see this wretch filming at an anti-fascist or left wing event, do ask him, peacefully, to desist. And warn those around you.

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