How Fakriots and Social-Media Grifters Have Screwed Over the Decent Right (2000–2025)
How Far-Right Extremism & Social Media Grifters Undermined Freedoms for the Decent Right (2000-2025)
Over the past 25 years, a parade of Fakriots — those social-media screamers, Telegram tough-guys, and TikTok Tommy-wannabes — have hijacked the voice of the British right. From EDL marches in the early 2010s to the 2024 Southport riots and the 2025 “Unite the Kingdom” rally, these clout-chasers haven't defended freedoms; they've torched them. Fueled by disinformation and dopamine hits, they've gifted governments the excuse to crank up police powers, hate speech clamps, and protest bans. The decent right — the quiet voter wanting fair borders, less red tape, and actual policy wins — now suffers the blowback: a chilling squeeze on speech, assembly, and sanity that hits everyone, but stings the law-abiding hardest.
Early Foundations: Fakriot Foundations – Post-2000 Laws Weaponized by BNP/EDL Grift
Terrorism Act 2000 (as amended post-2005/2010 far-right demos)
2000; expanded after 2005 London protests and EDL’s 2009 founding, where BNP/EDL masked Islamophobia as “free speech”
Key Provisions Restricting Freedoms: Proscribes groups for “encouraging terrorism”; broadens “support” to non-violent advocacy; pre-emptive arrests. By 2025, it banned Palestine Action alongside Fakriot cults like The Maniacs Murder Cult.
Facts/Figures on Impact: 26,000+ officer shifts for protests (2023); 100+ wrongful arrests in 2024 riots from vague clauses; UN flags “unnecessary limits”.
Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 (amending Public Order Act 1986)
2006; sparked by BNP/EDL anti-Muslim marches (BNP peaks 2004–2006)
Key Provisions: Criminalizes “threatening” words stirring religious hatred (lower bar than race); up to 7 years jail. EDL chants post-2010 became test cases.
Facts/Figures: 145,214 hate crimes (2024, +10% YoY); 5,000+ anti-Muslim incidents post-2024 riots; ~30 daily speech arrests by 2025.
Mid-2010s Escalation: EDL Peak Grift Fuels Protest Muzzles and Hate Tweaks
Public Order Act 1986 Amendments (via Criminal Justice influences)
2010–2014; EDL violence (100+ arrests Birmingham 2010) sparked “insulting words” expansions
Key Provisions: Lowers “abusive/insulting” speech bar for harassment; proactive “hate march” policing.
Facts/Figures: 20% hate crime spike (2011); 10+ arrests at 2018 rally; RUSI (2024) ties to 50% online Fakriot boom.
Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
2014; EDL/FLA “repeat demos” (2013 Bradford clashes)
Key Provisions: Dispersal orders, PSPOs for “nuisance” protests; £2,500 fines.
Facts/Figures: 800+ non-Fakriot arrests (2024–25); HRW (2025) slams “over-policing” of assemblies.
2020s Acceleration: 2024 Riots and 2025 Fakriot Rally Ignite “Anti-Disruption” Nightmare
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022
2022; post-Brexit far-right demos (FLA 2017–2021); lowered “serious disruption” after EDL-scale events
Key Provisions: Curbs “noisy/disruptive” protests; £2,500 noise fines; assembly conditions.
Facts/Figures: 800+ non-Fakriot arrests (2024); High Court quashed parts as unlawful; UN: “excessive”.
Public Order Act 2023
2023; riots/FLA violence; post-Lords rejections, targeted “guerrilla tactics” in far-right clashes
Key Provisions: Locking-on (51 weeks jail), tunnelling, infrastructure meddling; suspicionless stops; Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (location/internet bans). Enforced April 2024.
Facts/Figures: 1,000+ annual restrictions (RUSI est.); 400+ post-2024 convictions (up to 10 years); HRW: “chilling effect” on expression.
Online Safety Act 2023 (amendments proposed 2024–2025)
2023; riots’ online hate surge (300% post); X/Musk amplified “civil war” disinfo
Key Provisions: 10% global revenue fines for “harmful” content (hate/disinfo); post-riots toughening on incitement. Full enforcement 2025.
Facts/Figures: 66% public backs stricter rules (YouGov 2024); X blocked protest footage; hate threshold gaps (racial vs. religious).
Crime and Policing Bill 2024–25 (introduced Feb 2025; report stage Oct 2025)
2025; response to 2024 riots/2025 rally “cumulative disruption”; fourth anti-protest bill in four years
Key Provisions: Bans face coverings/pyrotechnics; offences for memorial climbs, knife possession with intent; “cumulative impact” on repeat demos; ASB-linked respect orders (visa deportations).
Facts/Figures: Amnesty: “assault on protest legacy”; 20% shoplifting rise (2024–25) via broader ASB; 1,000+ restrictions/year risk.
Cumulative Toll: Fakriots' Legacy – A Rights Void for the Decent Right
From 2000–2025, 10+ major laws/amendments trace to Fakriot triggers, per HRW’s 2025 World Report:
- 43% of Britons now favor “hate protection” over speech (YouGov 2025, up from 2019)
- £20M+ policing costs (2024 riots alone)
- 100+ wrongful arrests
- Broader bundling (2025 proscriptions lumping Fakriots with non-violent groups)
Fakriots: You didn't reclaim the country. You gift-wrapped it for the surveillance state. Cheers for that, lads.
Sources: Human Rights Watch World Report 2025, House of Commons Library briefings, Amnesty International UK, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, RUSI, Home Office data, YouGov polls, and official parliamentary records.