Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has ramped up his allegations against other anti-migrant campaigners whom he previously accused of planning terrorist acts.
Until a month ago Donaldson, a former soldier who launched the GBNP in August last year, was a close collaborator with Clare Walsh and her partner James Hodges, aka ‘The Viking’.
They jointly organised protest events at migrant hotels and were filmed out together hanging flags from motorway bridges.
‘Domestic terrorism’
Then he broke ranks, publicly accusing them of planning terrorist acts, which he said he had reported to the police.
At the time he did not specify what the alleged terrorist acts were although he said that they “would at the very, very least maim a lot of people and it will kill people…100% it’s domestic terrorism”.
Now he has offered more detail. In recent a post on X he claims that:
“I reported Clare and the Viking to the police because they wanted to barricade lefties inside buildings and then petrol bomb them with the people inside.
“People’s children, people’s brothers and sisters, people’s mums and dads, people’s grandparents.
“I don’t care if we don’t agree, if they’re on the left and we’re on the right or whatever. You don’t do that. So I reported it.
“People are calling me a grass in the comments on all of their pages. I don’t care. I did the right thing”.
Walsh and Hodges denied the terrorism allegations at the time, and were released without charge after being interviewed by the police.
But, even before that, when Walsh attacked Tommy Robinson supporters for harassing her, she was labelled a left-wing plant and came under such pressure from the far right that she and Hodges kept a very low profile, at least for a while.
They didn’t attend the Tommy Robinson rally in London on 13 September after being warned that they would be attacked if they did.
For his part, Donaldson now claims that he is being targeted by supporters of Walsh and Hodges who have been threatening him.
Showing X posts from people he says are their supporters he alleges that:
“Clare and Viking, and their little cohort, yet again, are spreading more lies, giving out my address, getting people to write things like this.
“Now, as you can see, Kenny says that ‘Someone needs to find out exactly who he is’.
“Kelly-anne then goes on to say: ‘I have his address now too’.
“And then Kenny says: ‘Someone needs to find out exactly who he is and where he’s from so he can have a couple of visitors’.
“Oh, big hard Kenny’s coming”.
In return Donaldson issues some threats of his own:
“I have got a lot of people now who have given me testimonials on video of what you’re like.
“How you turn up at people’s houses in the night. How you lie. I’ve got voice notes, messages.
“I’ve got the proof on how you’re working with the left. You’re in WhatsApp groups with the left. The way you worm your way in and try and destroy movements.
“You call yourself the Viking and Clare Uniting Britain. You’re not uniting anyone, Clare.
“Your names alone – how narcissistic can you get? The Viking? You’re five foot four, you fucking sausage!
“…Shut the fuck up and go away…
“…Tell your friends not to mention me. You stop mentioning me or I promise everything will come out and I will dismantle every single piece of your shitty little lives”.
But then he throws petrol on the fire by reposting allegations that Walsh and Hodges are ‘paid left-wing operatives’ working to destroy movements like his.
At this point it gets silly. They can either be paid left-wing operatives, or they can be right-wingers who were planning to attack left-wingers? They can’t really be both (and of course they may be neither).
But, in the fetid, conspiracy-obsessed world of the far right, it won’t be long before someone pipes up with the phrase ‘false flag’.
For their part, Clare Walsh and Hodges have denied that the posts threatening him have anything to do with them, and say they have themselves been receiving death threats from people who believe the allegations being made against them.
Ironically, according to Richard Donaldson, reporting Walsh and Hodges to the police led to accusations that he was a ‘grass’ working for the left or for the state, and a significant loss of support and funding for GBNP.
This hasn’t been helped by his GoFundMe and Buy Me A Coffee accounts being frozen, pending investigation, after each received hundreds of complaints. GoFundMe has since reinstated him, Buy Me A Coffee hasn’t.
And there have also been noisy demands that he accounts for the money – over £30k – he had raised so far.
Angry denial
So, in his latest X post he goes through in detail the money he has spent on GBNP since its launch, but in the process admits he has been drawing a wage of £1,250 per month.
When Searchlight suggested in August that he was drawing money from funds he had raised he denied it angrily:
“I should really forward (your article) to my lawyer and the IPSO. However, this would be a monumental waste of time given that no one reads your ‘news'”.
Plans for a GBNP event in October – a march to the Home Office – have now been shelved. Donaldson is telling people that it has not built up enough momentum so he is now planning something else – a complete, indefinite national strike and shutdown to force a general election.
Good luck with that.
Snake pit
The lesson that Donaldson, and Walsh and Hodges, should be learning by now, is that the right-wing world into which they have plunged is a foul snake pit, populated by some of the most vile, poisonous vicious characters you could imagine, and that if you cross them or upset them, or come under suspicion, you will be ruthlessly, viciously targeted, and your life turned inside out by threats and harassment.
Or worse…
