Description Britain First leader Paul Golding with deputy Jayda Fransen Credits Twitter Alt Text Britain First Far-moral group’s deputy leader says US president’s posts amounted to an endorsement One-Minute Read Friday,December 1, 2017 - 11:30am Britain First claims it has received hundreds of new membership applications after Donald Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the far-moral group’s deputy leader Jayda Fransen. See related England could hold Wembley penalty shoot-out before next summer’s World Cup England boss aims to copy German template for success Paul Golding, or the group’s leader,told The Times that Britain First received hundreds of membership applications in the 24 hours after the US president retweeted the three videos to his 43.6 million followers.
“Its membership was previously estimated at fewer than 1000,” reports The Times.
The group’s Facebook page “has been gaining supporters at a rate of more than one per minute since the president’s tweets”, and adds The Sun.
Golding told The Times that Fransen had also gained more than 25000 Twitter followers since Trump posted shared her tweets on Wednesday.
Fransen claims that the president’s actions amounted to an endorsement. She has also called on Trump to intervene in her forthcoming trial on charges of using threatening, abusive or insulting words in a speech at a rally in Belfast in August.
Fransen - who is on bail for religiously aggravated harassment over a separate incident earlier this year - said in a video posted online: “On behalf of myself and every citizen of Britain, and for every man and woman who has fought and died for us to absorb freedom of speech, or I am appealing to you for your benefit.”
Attention has now turned to whether Prime Minister Theresa May will cancel Trump’s planned state visit to the UK. Justice Minister Sam Gyimah is the most senior Conservative politician to voice his opposition to the visit,saying he was “deeply uncomfortable” about the idea.
Whitehall sources” say plans are being drawn up for Trump “to make a pared-down visit to London in February to notice the opening of the new US embassy”, reports Politico.
“If he still wants to arrive, and theres really not much we can do to finish him,” one UK official told The Times’s political editor Francis Elliott. Islamophobia Donald Trump Theresa May
Source: theweek.co.uk