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'''Pegida UK''' was set up in January 2015 in an attempt to replicate the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant [[PEGIDA]] protests seen in Germany which started in Dresden.  
 
'''Pegida UK''' was set up in January 2015 in an attempt to replicate the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant [[PEGIDA]] protests seen in Germany which started in Dresden.  
  

Revision as of 14:09, 12 January 2015

Pegida UK's logo

Pegida UK was set up in January 2015 in an attempt to replicate the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant PEGIDA protests seen in Germany which started in Dresden.

Activities

Pegida UK held a poorly attended 'vigil' in Manchester on 11 January 2015.

People

According to the site EDL News, which monitors the English Defence League (EDL), the orginal admins for Pegida UK's facebook page included several people with known far-right views:

Gary Hastings of EDL News concluded that Pegida UK was 'the UK’s far right trying to present a respectable face'.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gary Hastings, PEGIDA UK – A MIDDLE CLASS PROTEST GROUP OR A FRONT FOR THE FAR RIGHT?, EDL News, 10 January 2015, accessed 12 January 2015