The 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.
Liz [who did not want to give her surname] told the LDRS that worried staff contacted her on her day off when they became concerned “for guest safety”. The hotel boss was stunned by the scene that greeted her on her arrival. “They didn’t want any staff to enter the room,” Liz said. “I actually went into the first part of the room, where the merchandise was [laid out], and was told: ‘You shouldn’t be in here.’ Well, I’m running this hotel, I can go where I like.”
According to Searchlight, she was, however, stopped and questioned by border officials before being allowed to continue her journey into the heart of Lancashire. Dave Savage, secretary of the Preston and South Ribble Trades Union Council, told the LDRS that the organisation was demanding “an explanation” from the Home Secretary about why Isabel Peralta was allowed into the country.
Mark Cotterill, the Ribbleton-based editor of the Heritage and Destiny magazine and organiser of the group’s annual meeting, said that Isabel Peralta was stopped by what he describes as “the political police” at Manchester Airport, under the Terrorism Act. Unlike at the Samlesbury Hotel, there were no outward signs of what was really taking place at the facility when the meeting was under way – although the suspicions of the centre’s steward were raised when staff were asked to serve from a bar in another room. However, it was only in the following weeks that the venue was made aware of the event that had taken place under its roof.
“It’s also a sign of how we can’t be complacent at all. In other parts of Europe, the far right are open and public – and in the mainstream. Because we have consistently opposed fascist organisations in this country and kicked them out of the mainstream for the moment, they have been pushed back onto the fringes and have to hold secret meetings.
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