Police are investigating leaflets describing “how to become a white racial loyalist” that have been distributed in the Merseyside town of Bootle.
The pamphlets promote The Creativity Movement which claims, among other things:
- “The White Race is responsible for all that which we call progress on this earth”
- “It is therefore logical and sensible to place supreme importance upon Race and to reject all ideas which fail to do so”
- “Our people have never faced as grave a threat as we are facing today”
It is not clear who is behind the leaflet but a website it mentions contains articles including 'Slavery Weaponised Against The White Race’ and another that tells women their main role in life is to 'Prepare For Pregnancy'.
Mat Flusk, who posted a picture of the leaflets on Twitter, told HuffPost UK: “It’s not representative of where I grew up. There are pockets of racism as with any urban sprawl.
“What worries me about the leaflet is it’s not your usual rambling racist nonsense. You can imagine someone in a white collar job subscribing to such stuff and you’d have no idea.”
Merseyside Police said in a tweet it was aware of the leaflet and was “making enquiries”.
In October of last year it was revealed hate crime figures have more than doubled in five years and rose by almost a fifth in 2017/18 on the previous year.
Police in England and Wales recorded a 17% rise in incidents in the latest period, with three quarters – 71,251 – recorded as race hate crimes.
In total, there were 94,098 offences.
Data from the Home Office showed 12% of hate crimes – 11,638 – targeted sexual orientation, 9%, or 8,336, were religious hate crimes, and 8%, or 7,226, targeted people living with a disability.