A hotel has been criticised for allowing a far-right group to hold a conference at the weekend. Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a far-right activism group which says it “aims to raise awareness of the demographic decline of native Britons and the environmental impact of mass immigration” among other things. It has a white nationalist ideology and opposes all immigration, and has been described as anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, fascist and racist, and is said to have links to banned group National Action. On Saturday (October 29), it held a conference at the Stirk House Hotel in Gisburn. Anti-fascist investigators, Red Flare, have now criticised the hotel for allowing the conference to go ahead, despite being warned against it the day before it was set to take place. The hotel has said it has no affiliation with the group and does not share any of the views the group holds, adding that the event was lawful and when the booking was made they had no idea they were accepting a far-right conference. The hotel said it was “left with little practical alternative but to proceed with the booking, which had been accepted by the hotel many months prior”. It is thought around 150 members of PA turned up to the ballroom of Stirk House Hotel.
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