The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety.
Styling themselves ‘Kent Women First Pink Ladies – British Women First’, they have begun organising publicly in north Kent, and are advertising a meeting in Chatham next month.
The group is a local offshoot of British Women First Pink Ladies, led by Norwich-based activist Teresa Moon, who online also uses goes by the names of Hannant and Collins.
The national group operates largely through Facebook and TikTok, where posts repeatedly conflate women’s safety with anti-migrant narratives and portray immigration as an inherent threat.
In Kent they are mainly active in Dartford, but also aim to cover Medway, Gravesham and Bexley
Far-right agitation
In early February, members were active at Swanley market, filming themselves approaching members of the public while wearing coordinated pink branding.
Although pitched as outreach on women’s safety, associated posts and comment threads quickly revert to familiar far-right agitation on asylum seekers and borders.
Women’s safety deserves serious, inclusive solutions. Far-right groups exploiting it to push anti-migrant agendas offer only fear and division.
Mass rally cancelled
Elsewhere in Kent, last Saturday Maidstone-based activist Roger Hogg – a former Conservative member who has cycled through UKIP, the British Democrats and his own one-man “United Kingdom Party” – was forced to cancel a much-hyped “mass deportation march” outside County Hall just hours before it was due to begin.
Though promoted heavily on TikTok, the event collapsed through lack of support.
