Pegida UK

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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.

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:

Notes

  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