Protest: Sunday November 15th, 11am, Outside KFC, Chelmsley Wood Bus Interchange

We stand together against racism, anti-migrant hostility and intimidation in Chelmsley Wood.

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The Kingstanding Patriots (previously Kingstanding Raise The Colours) want to set up Patriot Platform groups in Birmingham and Solihull and they think they can start in Chelmsley Wood.

This is why they have joined up with Rachel Burbidge and set up the Chelmsley Wood Patriots.

Rachel Burbidge no longer lives in Chelmsley Wood and now calls her former neighbourhood "a shithole".

Patriot Platform is a far-right, anti-migrant movement established in June by Danny Tommo (Daniel Thomas), with the support of Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Thomas set up the group after a very public and acrimonious split with Ryan Bridge’s Raise The Colours.

Patriot Platform hit the national news in September when hundreds of men, wearing paramilitary style balaclavas and dressed in black, disrupted the port in Dover for several hours.

The racist thugs also protested in Portsmouth where they fought with police.

RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ and their addresses were shared online. Portsmouth RNLI station was forced to close due to the intimidation.

Since focusing on Chelmsley Wood the ‘patriots’ have staged a racist, anti-migrant demonstration in the town, and started vigilante patrols.

People living in Chelmsley Wood were then shocked to see black clad vigilantes from Kingstanding harassing international students during a night patrol. The vigilantes demanded the students IDs and address, and gave them a "final warning" to "stay away from the park… take yourself back to where you f**** live”.

A few days later, the students were forced to leave the house they were living in after windows were smashed, three nights in a row. The masked vigilntes denied breaking the windows.

The ‘patriots’ targeted the students for no reason other than the colour of their skin and their accents.

The Kingstanding Patriots are not patriotic, they are from the extreme right of the political spectrum. At the end of October they attended a rally in Shrewsbury held by the fascist Britain First, where one of their group spoke. He ended his speech with ‘The Fourteen Words’, a neo-Nazi slogan originated by the American neo-Nazi and anti-semite David Eden Lane, a founding member of a white supremacist terrorist organization called The Order. ‘The Fourteen Words’ are familiar to anyone on the far-right of politics.

The truth is that far-right vigilantes attempting to create a climate of fear does not make Chelmsley Wood a safer place. We should not be welcoming the far-right Patriot Platform into our community.

You can read what local people are saying about the Chelmsley Wood Patriots, and about their community here:

https://solihullsutr.substack.com/p/chelmsley-wood-belongs-to-everyone

Please join us on Sunday 15th November to oppose the Chelmsley Wood Patriots and and the Kingstanding Patriots and make a stand for unity.

Stand together. Show solidarity. Spread the word!

Chelmsley Wood is for everyone!

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