A white supremacist who has joined Restore Britain and been pictured alongside the party founder Rupert Lowe today sent birthday greetings to Adolf Hitler on his Telegram channel.
Chris Mitchell, the former East of England organiser for the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative (PA) and a self-described “Nazi-Buddhist”, posted his message on 20 April, the anniversary of Hitler’s birth in 1889.
Blessed day
“Happy 420 guys. Happy birthday Unc,” Mitchell wrote, signing off with a prayer-hands emoji and a message wishing his followers “a blessed day”.
The post was visible to the roughly 160 members of his channel, which Mitchell renamed the Restore Britain War Room.
The significance of the date will have been lost on nobody in Mitchell’s audience. Neo-nazi and white supremacist groups routinely stage events around the anniversary of Hitler’s April 20th birthday.
Last year, British Movement members in Manchester came under police investigation after holding a birthday celebration in a pub – complete with a swastika birthday cake.
The “420” reference is a well-established neo-Nazi numerical code for the date, used online to invoke Hitler’s birthday while maintaining a veneer of plausible deniability. “Unc” – short for “uncle” – is a common white nationalist term of affection for Hitler.
White genocide
Mitchell makes no effort to conceal his ideology. He has publicly posted the “14 words” – the most widely used white supremacist slogan in the world – declared that diversity means “white genocide”, and claimed that “Jewish control over our people WILL be coming to an end.”
Yet he has also become a visible presence within Restore Britain.
Since joining Great Yarmouth First, the movement’s flagship local organisation, last November, Mitchell has been actively recruiting fellow ethno-nationalists.
He posed for a selfie with Lowe and posted it publicly on both Facebook and Telegram.
According to Mitchell, when he asked Lowe whether his extreme nationalist views would be a problem, Lowe told him it was a matter of “free speech.”
Lowe has not disputed the account.
As we have already reported, Lowe’s Restore has become a major pole of attraction for British nazis.
Steve Laws and other former Homeland Party members have joined up, and Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett has urged PA members to join too, calling Lowe “the greatest sitting MP since World War Two, including Enoch Powell.”
