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Jim Dowson

January 04, 2023

James Dowson is a far-right political activist from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.[1] He has been active across the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States and has been described by The Times as "the invisible man of Britain's far right".[2]

Jim Dowson
Born
James Dowson

Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Occupation(s)Founder of Britain First, public relations for Knights Templar International
ChildrenNine
RelativesMarion Thomas (sister-in-law)

After joining and falling out with the Orange Order, Dowson was active as an anti-abortion militant. He joined the far-right British National Party and was in charge of the party's financial affairs. He later helped found and worked as the main source of funding for Britain First from which he resigned in 2014. He was arrested for his participation in the Belfast City Hall flag protests in late-2012 and was also involved in the Protestant Coalition, a party formed by some involved in the protests. Subsequently, he has also been active in the anti-immigrant Knights Templar International and supporting Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.

Dowson presents Templar Report on Purged TV[citation needed] every Sunday to Friday which has Nick Griffin, the former BNP and National Front leader, as a regular guest.[3]

Activities

Anti-abortion activism

Dowson was a Calvinist minister before entering politics.[4] He was for a time a member of the Orange Order and was associated with a controversial flute band accused of glorifying loyalist murderer Michael Stone during parades.[5] Dowson subsequently fell out with the Orange Order after he was forced to leave the movement, even taking part in protests against it where he denounced the group as being filled with "atheists and boozers".[6]

He came to wider attention for his campaigning against abortion, establishing his own group, the UK Life League, in 1999 after meeting with the leaders of Youth Defence, a militant anti-abortion group active in the Republic of Ireland.[7] He courted controversy by setting up a website that published the personal details of sexual health workers, as well as encouraging supporters to bombard Paul Goggins with messages after the Northern Irish Health Secretary had mooted the possibility of relaxing Northern Ireland's tough anti-abortion laws.[5] When the Marie Stopes Clinic (a family planning clinic denounced by its critics as pro-abortion) opened in Belfast in 2012, Dowson took a leading role in the protests that followed.[6] Dowson has also stated that he worked as part of the United States anti-abortion movement and used much of what he learned there as part of his career in public relations.[8]

It has been reported that during his campaigns Dowson has picked up several criminal convictions, notably for breach of the peace in 1986, possession of a weapon and breach of the peace in 1991, and criminal damage in 1992.[7][9] Dowson has, however, denied all of these claims apart from the conviction for breach of the peace, which he insisted was for an incident in his youth.[8]

Matt Collins, a former member of the National Front, who now monitors the far-right with anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate said of Jim Dowson in an interview with Channel 4 News in 2014:

"Jim Dowson has raised money for extreme right-wing, anti-abortion or anti-gay groups, has protested outside abortion clinics, and made a living from heaping misery on people in desperate circumstances."[10]

British National Party

Dowson joined the British National Party at an unspecified date and became a leading figure within the group, rising to take charge of the BNP's financial affairs.[4] He has claimed that in this role he raised £4 million for the party.[8] Dowson's financial role with the party began in late 2007.[11]

Having relocated to Ballygowan from Glasgow, Dowson set up a BNP call centre at the Carrowreagh Business Centre in Dundonald on the outskirts of Belfast. Dowson ran the centre under the name of Adlorr-ies.com Ltd, a Leicestershire-based company he had established.[12]

Dowson announced his departure from the BNP in 2010 and stated that he intended to start an anti-Islamic Christian group.[13] According to a report in the Daily Record, Dowson had also faced an allegation that he had groped a female BNP worker.[1]

Britain First

Dowson's involvement in Britain First, a far-right party led by the former BNP councillor Paul Golding, first came to light in 2012 when the English Defence League repudiated any connections to the group on the basis that Dowson was involved and they considered him financially untrustworthy.[11] In 2014, it was publicly revealed that Dowson was the main source of funding behind the group.[4] According to a report on the Channel 4 news programme, Dowson was the "ideological guru" of the group.[8] In fact, Dowson had been a founder of the group in 2010 but did not take a public role.[7] According to the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate he had been the driving force behind the group's foundation and had used it to attack the BNP leader Nick Griffin, with whom he had had a bitter falling-out.[14]

Dowson announced his resignation from Britain First in July 2014 after the group, under a policy initiated by Golding, started launching "invasions" of mosques. Dowson described the initiative as "provocative and counterproductive" as well as "unacceptable and unchristian".[15] The story about the mosque attacks had been broken by Channel 4 on the same news programme that named Dowson as the group's leading figure.[8]

Northern Ireland

Dowson became a leading figure in the Belfast City Hall flag protests that broke out in late 2012 after Belfast City Council voted to only fly the Union Flag from Belfast City Hall on seventeen designated days a year rather than all the time as had previously been the practice. In March of the following year, Dowson was arrested for his part in the protests.[16] He was charged with encouraging or assisting offenders and five counts of taking part in an unnotified public procession due to his part in the protests.[17] At a subsequent court appearance Dowson and some of his co-defendants dressed in Islamic-style clothing.[1] In 2015, Dowson was given a three-month suspended sentence for taking part in unlawful public processions in relation to offences during January and February 2013. Dowson pleaded guilty to three counts of participating in un-notified public processions.[18]

Dowson joined Willie Frazer at the 2013 LaMon Hotel press conference at which the Protestant Coalition, a political party launched on the back of the flag protests, was officially established.[19] He subsequently claimed that he left the party to Frazer and Rab McKee after a few months and bemoaned the failure of the group to make any impact on local politics.[8]

Eastern Europe and Knights Templar International

Dowson relocated to Budapest, Hungary, and has been observed in several eastern European countries with his latest venture, the counter-jihad[20] Knights Templar International (KTI), along with the former BNP leader Nick Griffin and a Hungarian anti-abortion campaigner Imre Teglasy.[21] Dowson's last sighting, according to the Daily Mirror, was on the Turkey-Bulgaria border with the KTI supplying equipment to a vigilante paramilitary group, the Shipka Bulgarian National Movement, to hunt down asylum seekers.[22] Dowson was subsequently reported as having developed close links with the Russian extremist Aleksandr Dugin, with Dugin aiding Dowson in the establishment of a Belgrade office for his internet activity in support of the "alt-right".[23]

In May 2017, it was reported by Hope not Hate that Dowson had been stopped from entering Hungary after the Hungarian Immigration Authority declared him an "undesirable individual" and barred him from entering the country in future. The move came as part of a wider crackdown by the Ministry of Interior on far-right individuals from across Europe using the country as their base, after Horst Mahler had been arrested trying to escape charges of Holocaust denial in Germany by entering Hungary.[24]

In May 2018, BBC News reported that Dowson has been fronting the Knights Templar International company[25] with Dowson's sister-in-law Marion Thomas named as one of its directors.[26][27]

Donald Trump

In July 2016, Dowson established the "Patriot News Agency" to help elect Donald Trump as President of the United States. Dowson described his strategy as spreading "devastating anti-Clinton, pro-Trump memes and sound bites into sections of the population too disillusioned with politics to have taken any notice of conventional campaigning." The site published an article alleging that Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton was involved in "Satanism, pedophilia," murder, and "other conspiracies."[28][29] According to the New York Times, postings on this site and others connected to Dowson, as well as Facebook pages "linked to him", were "viewed and shared hundreds of thousands of times".[28]

Scottish independence

Whilst attending a far-right conference in Budapest in March 2017, Dowson announced his support for Scottish independence, despite his earlier unionist stances. Dowson stated "England is stuffed, England is stuffed totally" and advanced his belief that an independent Scotland "would protect us from the excesses of Muslim domination".[30]

Kosovo military equipment

In May 2018 the BBC reported that Knights Templar International had claimed to have supplied ballistics vests and communications equipment to Kosovo. It also reported that Dowson had told Kosovan TV that he had personally taken such equipment there.[25]

2021 Scottish parliamentary election

In Glasgow, on polling day for the Scottish parliamentary election, Dowson[citation needed] was heard accusing Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP of attempting to "change the country [to a] socialist republic", following her comments accusing Jayda Fransen and Britain First of being racists and a fascists before declaring that Glasgow Southside would reject them.[31]

Ireland

Jim Dowson has been heavily associated with the Irish Catholic nationalist group Siol na hÉireann (Seed of Ireland), especially the group's founder Niall McConnell. In 2019, Dowson appeared regularly alongside McConnell on his YouTube channel, the two travelling to the European Parliament together with the former BNP leader Nick Griffin. It has been noted that the Siol website is almost identical to sites that belong to Dowson, such as that of the British Freedom Movement and Knights Templar International, selling variations of the same merchandise.[32]

Operating from Donegal, Siol na hÉireann has been involved in a number of public activities across Ireland. In June 2020, it made headlines when it confronted a Mayo priest who allowed two members of the Muslim community to give a blessing at mass. In July 2020, it led a "colour party" at the head of march in Dublin in protest of Covid lockdown restrictions.[33] In January 2022, it hosted an online petition to deport the murderer of the Offaly teacher Ashling Murphy, who was allegedly killed by a non-Irish national.[34]

Personal life

Dowson is the father of nine children.[15][29] He has been described as "a Christian Fundamentalist", a "fundamentalist preacher" and "driven by fundamental extremism".[35][8][36]

References

  1. ^ a b c Stewart, Stephen (26 May 2014). "Exposed: Scottish BNP No.2 unmasked as man behind Britain First Defence Force's sickening invasion of mosques". Daily Record. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ^ Kennedy, Dominic (26 November 2016). "Pastor became extremists' marketing mastermind". The Times.(subscription required)
  3. ^ "Templar Report - PURGED.tv".
  4. ^ a b c Francis, Colin (20 June 2014). "Loyalist flag protest man Jim Dowson revealed as real leader of far-right organisation Britain First". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  5. ^ a b McGuigan, Ciaran (6 May 2007). "Pro-life Zealot denies website intimidation of health workers". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. ^ a b McDonald, Henry (18 October 2012). "Anti-abortion activists protest at Belfast clinic opening". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ^ a b c McLean, Marc (9 January 2013). "Scots ex-BNP chief seen fuelling Union flag riots in Belfast". Daily Record. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Clarke, Liam (21 June 2014). "Jim Dowson laughs off TV claims he is the 'evil genius' of British fascism". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. ^ Campbell, Scott (15 May 2014). "Cumbernauld's shame; town's link with far-right extremist group". Cumbernauld Media. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  10. ^ Whelan, Brian (19 June 2014). "Britain First: inside the extremist group targeting mosques". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  11. ^ a b Gable, Sonia (16 December 2012). . Searchlight magazine. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  12. ^ O'Dornan, David (14 June 2009). "BNP's secret Belfast lair". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  13. ^ Sommerlad, Nick (27 July 2014). "Britain First founder quits over mosque invasions which attract "racists and extremists"". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  14. ^ "Hate Files: The British National Party". hopenothate.org.uk. Hope Not Hate. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. ^ a b Dearden, Lizzie (28 July 2014). "Britain First founder Jim Dowson quits over mosque invasions and 'racists and extremists'". The Independent. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  16. ^ Staff writer (1 March 2013). "Jim Dowson arrested in union flag protest probe". BBC News. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  17. ^ Staff writer (2 March 2013). "Scottish Union Flag protester Jim Dowson appears in Belfast court". The Herald. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  18. ^ Alan Erwin (20 April 2015). "Union flag protestor Jim Dowson handed suspended sentence for taking part in unlawful public processions". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  19. ^ Staff writer (24 April 2013). "Flag protesters launch new 'anti-politics' unionist party". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  20. ^ Herman, Lise Esther; Muldoon, James (2018). Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right. Routledge. ISBN 9781351384018 – via Google Books.
    - "International counter-jihad organisations". Hope not hate. 11 January 2018.
  21. ^ "Knights Templar International: Christian Knights or Fascist Front?". International Report Bigotry and Fascism. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  22. ^ McGivern, Mark (24 October 2016). "Britain First extremist filmed joining hate-filled vigilante group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaris". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  23. ^ Townsend, Mark (11 February 2017). "Britain's extremist bloggers helping the 'alt-right' go global, report finds". The Observer. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  24. ^ Collins, Matthew (24 May 2017). "Exclusive: Jim Dowson Expelled From Hungary". Hope not Hate. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  25. ^ a b Cox, Simon; Meisel, Anna (1 May 2018). "Is this Britain's most influential far-right activist?". BBC News. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  26. ^ Andrews, Kieran (3 December 2017). "Revealed: Far-right Scot pioneered hate group's propaganda peddled by Donald Trump". The Sunday Post. Dundee, Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  27. ^ "Knights Templar International Novus Ordo Militiae Ltd". Company Check. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  28. ^ a b McIntire, Mike (17 December 2016). "How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans". New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  29. ^ a b Rainey, Mark (27 December 2016). "Former Union Flag protestor credited with aiding Trump election victory". The News Letter. Belfast. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  30. ^ Matthew Collins (20 March 2017). "Flag man drops Britain". Hope not Hate. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  31. ^ Carrell, Severin (6 May 2021). "'You are a racist': Sturgeon clashes with ex-Britain First deputy". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  32. ^ "Siol na hÉireann: Jim Dowson's Irish Chicanery?". The Burkean. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  33. ^ Conor Gallagher (19 September 2020). "The far right rises: Its growth as a political force in Ireland". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  34. ^ Cianan Brennan and Daniel Mcconnell (24 January 2022). "Far right exploits Ashling Murphy's death to ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric". The Irish Examiner. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  35. ^ Duffy, Judith (19 February 2017). "Militant Scottish anti-abortion campaigner Jim Dowson in spotlight as Britain's most influential far-right activist". The Herald. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  36. ^ Collins, Matthew (23 June 2014). "Meet Britain First: the UK's fastest growing far right group". openDemocracy. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

External links

  • BBC Radio Four programme
  • Jim Dowson on Twitter

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James Dowson is a far right political activist from Airdrie North Lanarkshire Scotland 1 He has been active across the United Kingdom Europe and the United States and has been described by The Times as the invisible man of Britain s far right 2 Jim DowsonBornJames DowsonAirdrie North Lanarkshire ScotlandOccupation s Founder of Britain First public relations for Knights Templar InternationalChildrenNineRelativesMarion Thomas sister in law After joining and falling out with the Orange Order Dowson was active as an anti abortion militant He joined the far right British National Party and was in charge of the party s financial affairs He later helped found and worked as the main source of funding for Britain First from which he resigned in 2014 He was arrested for his participation in the Belfast City Hall flag protests in late 2012 and was also involved in the Protestant Coalition a party formed by some involved in the protests Subsequently he has also been active in the anti immigrant Knights Templar International and supporting Donald Trump s 2016 election campaign Dowson presents Templar Report on Purged TV citation needed every Sunday to Friday which has Nick Griffin the former BNP and National Front leader as a regular guest 3 Contents 1 Activities 1 1 Anti abortion activism 1 2 British National Party 1 3 Britain First 1 4 Northern Ireland 1 5 Eastern Europe and Knights Templar International 1 6 Donald Trump 1 7 Scottish independence 1 8 Kosovo military equipment 1 9 2021 Scottish parliamentary election 1 10 Ireland 2 Personal life 3 References 4 External linksActivities EditAnti abortion activism Edit Dowson was a Calvinist minister before entering politics 4 He was for a time a member of the Orange Order and was associated with a controversial flute band accused of glorifying loyalist murderer Michael Stone during parades 5 Dowson subsequently fell out with the Orange Order after he was forced to leave the movement even taking part in protests against it where he denounced the group as being filled with atheists and boozers 6 He came to wider attention for his campaigning against abortion establishing his own group the UK Life League in 1999 after meeting with the leaders of Youth Defence a militant anti abortion group active in the Republic of Ireland 7 He courted controversy by setting up a website that published the personal details of sexual health workers as well as encouraging supporters to bombard Paul Goggins with messages after the Northern Irish Health Secretary had mooted the possibility of relaxing Northern Ireland s tough anti abortion laws 5 When the Marie Stopes Clinic a family planning clinic denounced by its critics as pro abortion opened in Belfast in 2012 Dowson took a leading role in the protests that followed 6 Dowson has also stated that he worked as part of the United States anti abortion movement and used much of what he learned there as part of his career in public relations 8 It has been reported that during his campaigns Dowson has picked up several criminal convictions notably for breach of the peace in 1986 possession of a weapon and breach of the peace in 1991 and criminal damage in 1992 7 9 Dowson has however denied all of these claims apart from the conviction for breach of the peace which he insisted was for an incident in his youth 8 Matt Collins a former member of the National Front who now monitors the far right with anti fascist group Hope Not Hate said of Jim Dowson in an interview with Channel 4 News in 2014 Jim Dowson has raised money for extreme right wing anti abortion or anti gay groups has protested outside abortion clinics and made a living from heaping misery on people in desperate circumstances 10 British National Party Edit Dowson joined the British National Party at an unspecified date and became a leading figure within the group rising to take charge of the BNP s financial affairs 4 He has claimed that in this role he raised 4 million for the party 8 Dowson s financial role with the party began in late 2007 11 Having relocated to Ballygowan from Glasgow Dowson set up a BNP call centre at the Carrowreagh Business Centre in Dundonald on the outskirts of Belfast Dowson ran the centre under the name of Adlorr ies com Ltd a Leicestershire based company he had established 12 Dowson announced his departure from the BNP in 2010 and stated that he intended to start an anti Islamic Christian group 13 According to a report in the Daily Record Dowson had also faced an allegation that he had groped a female BNP worker 1 Britain First Edit Dowson s involvement in Britain First a far right party led by the former BNP councillor Paul Golding first came to light in 2012 when the English Defence League repudiated any connections to the group on the basis that Dowson was involved and they considered him financially untrustworthy 11 In 2014 it was publicly revealed that Dowson was the main source of funding behind the group 4 According to a report on the Channel 4 news programme Dowson was the ideological guru of the group 8 In fact Dowson had been a founder of the group in 2010 but did not take a public role 7 According to the anti fascist group Hope Not Hate he had been the driving force behind the group s foundation and had used it to attack the BNP leader Nick Griffin with whom he had had a bitter falling out 14 Dowson announced his resignation from Britain First in July 2014 after the group under a policy initiated by Golding started launching invasions of mosques Dowson described the initiative as provocative and counterproductive as well as unacceptable and unchristian 15 The story about the mosque attacks had been broken by Channel 4 on the same news programme that named Dowson as the group s leading figure 8 Northern Ireland Edit Dowson became a leading figure in the Belfast City Hall flag protests that broke out in late 2012 after Belfast City Council voted to only fly the Union Flag from Belfast City Hall on seventeen designated days a year rather than all the time as had previously been the practice In March of the following year Dowson was arrested for his part in the protests 16 He was charged with encouraging or assisting offenders and five counts of taking part in an unnotified public procession due to his part in the protests 17 At a subsequent court appearance Dowson and some of his co defendants dressed in Islamic style clothing 1 In 2015 Dowson was given a three month suspended sentence for taking part in unlawful public processions in relation to offences during January and February 2013 Dowson pleaded guilty to three counts of participating in un notified public processions 18 Dowson joined Willie Frazer at the 2013 LaMon Hotel press conference at which the Protestant Coalition a political party launched on the back of the flag protests was officially established 19 He subsequently claimed that he left the party to Frazer and Rab McKee after a few months and bemoaned the failure of the group to make any impact on local politics 8 Eastern Europe and Knights Templar International Edit Dowson relocated to Budapest Hungary and has been observed in several eastern European countries with his latest venture the counter jihad 20 Knights Templar International KTI along with the former BNP leader Nick Griffin and a Hungarian anti abortion campaigner Imre Teglasy 21 Dowson s last sighting according to the Daily Mirror was on the Turkey Bulgaria border with the KTI supplying equipment to a vigilante paramilitary group the Shipka Bulgarian National Movement to hunt down asylum seekers 22 Dowson was subsequently reported as having developed close links with the Russian extremist Aleksandr Dugin with Dugin aiding Dowson in the establishment of a Belgrade office for his internet activity in support of the alt right 23 In May 2017 it was reported by Hope not Hate that Dowson had been stopped from entering Hungary after the Hungarian Immigration Authority declared him an undesirable individual and barred him from entering the country in future The move came as part of a wider crackdown by the Ministry of Interior on far right individuals from across Europe using the country as their base after Horst Mahler had been arrested trying to escape charges of Holocaust denial in Germany by entering Hungary 24 In May 2018 BBC News reported that Dowson has been fronting the Knights Templar International company 25 with Dowson s sister in law Marion Thomas named as one of its directors 26 27 Donald Trump Edit In July 2016 Dowson established the Patriot News Agency to help elect Donald Trump as President of the United States Dowson described his strategy as spreading devastating anti Clinton pro Trump memes and sound bites into sections of the population too disillusioned with politics to have taken any notice of conventional campaigning The site published an article alleging that Trump s opponent Hillary Clinton was involved in Satanism pedophilia murder and other conspiracies 28 29 According to the New York Times postings on this site and others connected to Dowson as well as Facebook pages linked to him were viewed and shared hundreds of thousands of times 28 Scottish independence Edit Whilst attending a far right conference in Budapest in March 2017 Dowson announced his support for Scottish independence despite his earlier unionist stances Dowson stated England is stuffed England is stuffed totally and advanced his belief that an independent Scotland would protect us from the excesses of Muslim domination 30 Kosovo military equipment Edit In May 2018 the BBC reported that Knights Templar International had claimed to have supplied ballistics vests and communications equipment to Kosovo It also reported that Dowson had told Kosovan TV that he had personally taken such equipment there 25 2021 Scottish parliamentary election Edit In Glasgow on polling day for the Scottish parliamentary election Dowson citation needed was heard accusing Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP of attempting to change the country to a socialist republic following her comments accusing Jayda Fransen and Britain First of being racists and a fascists before declaring that Glasgow Southside would reject them 31 Ireland Edit Jim Dowson has been heavily associated with the Irish Catholic nationalist group Siol na hEireann Seed of Ireland especially the group s founder Niall McConnell In 2019 Dowson appeared regularly alongside McConnell on his YouTube channel the two travelling to the European Parliament together with the former BNP leader Nick Griffin It has been noted that the Siol website is almost identical to sites that belong to Dowson such as that of the British Freedom Movement and Knights Templar International selling variations of the same merchandise 32 Operating from Donegal Siol na hEireann has been involved in a number of public activities across Ireland In June 2020 it made headlines when it confronted a Mayo priest who allowed two members of the Muslim community to give a blessing at mass In July 2020 it led a colour party at the head of march in Dublin in protest of Covid lockdown restrictions 33 In January 2022 it hosted an online petition to deport the murderer of the Offaly teacher Ashling Murphy who was allegedly killed by a non Irish national 34 Personal life EditDowson is the father of nine children 15 29 He has been described as a Christian Fundamentalist a fundamentalist preacher and driven by fundamental extremism 35 8 36 References Edit a b c Stewart Stephen 26 May 2014 Exposed Scottish BNP No 2 unmasked as man behind Britain First Defence Force s sickening invasion of mosques Daily Record Retrieved 2 January 2015 Kennedy Dominic 26 November 2016 Pastor became extremists marketing mastermind The Times subscription required Templar Report PURGED tv a b c Francis Colin 20 June 2014 Loyalist flag protest man Jim Dowson revealed as real leader of far right organisation Britain First Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b McGuigan Ciaran 6 May 2007 Pro life Zealot denies website intimidation of health workers Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b McDonald Henry 18 October 2012 Anti abortion activists protest at Belfast clinic opening The Guardian Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b c McLean Marc 9 January 2013 Scots ex BNP chief seen fuelling Union flag riots in Belfast Daily Record Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b c d e f g Clarke Liam 21 June 2014 Jim Dowson laughs off TV claims he is the evil genius of British fascism Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 2 January 2015 Campbell Scott 15 May 2014 Cumbernauld s shame town s link with far right extremist group Cumbernauld Media Retrieved 2 January 2015 Whelan Brian 19 June 2014 Britain First inside the extremist group targeting mosques Channel 4 News Retrieved 27 May 2022 a b Gable Sonia 16 December 2012 Britain First is money making scam claims EDL Searchlight magazine Archived from the original on 2 January 2015 Retrieved 2 January 2015 O Dornan David 14 June 2009 BNP s secret Belfast lair Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 2 January 2015 Sommerlad Nick 27 July 2014 Britain First founder quits over mosque invasions which attract racists and extremists Daily Mirror Retrieved 2 January 2015 Hate Files The British National Party hopenothate org uk Hope Not Hate 22 October 2012 Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b Dearden Lizzie 28 July 2014 Britain First founder Jim Dowson quits over mosque invasions and racists and extremists The Independent Retrieved 2 January 2015 Staff writer 1 March 2013 Jim Dowson arrested in union flag protest probe BBC News Retrieved 2 January 2015 Staff writer 2 March 2013 Scottish Union Flag protester Jim Dowson appears in Belfast court The Herald Retrieved 2 January 2015 Alan Erwin 20 April 2015 Union flag protestor Jim Dowson handed suspended sentence for taking part in unlawful public processions Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 10 February 2022 Staff writer 24 April 2013 Flag protesters launch new anti politics unionist party Belfast Telegraph Retrieved 2 January 2015 Herman Lise Esther Muldoon James 2018 Trumping the Mainstream The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right Routledge ISBN 9781351384018 via Google Books International counter jihad organisations Hope not hate 11 January 2018 Knights Templar International Christian Knights or Fascist Front International Report Bigotry and Fascism 23 May 2016 Retrieved 12 November 2016 McGivern Mark 24 October 2016 Britain First extremist filmed joining hate filled vigilante group hunting down asylum seekers in Bulgaris Daily Mirror Retrieved 12 November 2016 Townsend Mark 11 February 2017 Britain s extremist bloggers helping the alt right go global report finds The Observer Retrieved 12 February 2017 Collins Matthew 24 May 2017 Exclusive Jim Dowson Expelled From Hungary Hope not Hate Retrieved 24 May 2017 a b Cox Simon Meisel Anna 1 May 2018 Is this Britain s most influential far right activist BBC News Retrieved 1 May 2018 Andrews Kieran 3 December 2017 Revealed Far right Scot pioneered hate group s propaganda peddled by Donald Trump The Sunday Post Dundee Scotland Retrieved 2 May 2018 Knights Templar International Novus Ordo Militiae Ltd Company Check Retrieved 2 May 2018 a b McIntire Mike 17 December 2016 How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro Trump Propaganda to Americans New York Times Retrieved 18 December 2016 a b Rainey Mark 27 December 2016 Former Union Flag protestor credited with aiding Trump election victory The News Letter Belfast Retrieved 2 May 2018 Matthew Collins 20 March 2017 Flag man drops Britain Hope not Hate Retrieved 5 August 2020 Carrell Severin 6 May 2021 You are a racist Sturgeon clashes with ex Britain First deputy The Guardian Retrieved 8 May 2021 Siol na hEireann Jim Dowson s Irish Chicanery The Burkean 14 September 2020 Retrieved 16 March 2022 Conor Gallagher 19 September 2020 The far right rises Its growth as a political force in Ireland The Irish Times Retrieved 16 March 2022 Cianan Brennan and Daniel Mcconnell 24 January 2022 Far right exploits Ashling Murphy s death to ramp up anti immigrant rhetoric The Irish Examiner Retrieved 16 March 2022 Duffy Judith 19 February 2017 Militant Scottish anti abortion campaigner Jim Dowson in spotlight as Britain s most influential far right activist The Herald Retrieved 27 May 2022 Collins Matthew 23 June 2014 Meet Britain First the UK s fastest growing far right group openDemocracy Retrieved 27 May 2022 External links EditBBC Radio Four programme Jim Dowson on Twitter Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jim Dowson amp oldid 1127467262, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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