The Samlesbury Hotel unwittingly hosted the annual gathering of self-styled “racial nationalist” group Heritage and Destiny after a booking was initially made for an armed forces veterans gathering
A hotel manager has spoken of her shock after discovering that a room hired out to host a party for armed forces veterans was actually staging a far-right conference. It was an event that even ended up with baseball bat-carrying security guards on the door.
“I found security guards on our function suite doors with metal baseball bats, which I insisted were put away immediately. I asked [event organiser] Mark Cotterill to leave, on the basis that he had booked the function under false pretences – but he refused and said he had paid for a certain length of time.
Liz says that while nobody attending the event was aggressive towards her, she found the whole situation a “frightening” experience. The hotel says it had even charged a reduced rate for the use of the room, because a number of its staff are armed forces veterans and the venue wanted to make a gesture of goodwill.
“Other known far-right extremists have been denied entry to the UK in the past, on the basis that it would not be conducive to the public good. Why were these individuals banned and Peralta allowed in? Given the criminally violent acts of far-right extremists in the UK in recent years, we have a right to expect greater vigilance from the Home Office when it comes to fascist activists seeking to enter the UK to radicalise individuals in our communities.
“I’ve been stopped twice under Schedule 7 [of that Act] myself – that’s just par for the course if you are a nationalist. But they saw she was not in any way a risk to UK security, so they let her enter,” Mr. Cotterill said. When the centre accepted a provisional reservation for a veterans booking earlier this year, steward Karen Harle was alive to the possibility that it could be another front – and so cancelled it. In response, she received a text rant from an unnamed individual accusing her of falling for “fake news and lies”. It was seemingly at this point that, without a venue for 2023, that Heritage and Destiny turned its attention to the Samlesbury Hotel.
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