Laura Towler

Laura Towler (real name: Laura Tyrie[1]) is a British white nationalist active on YouTube[2] who along with neo-Nazi Mark Collett leads Patriotic Alternative — a far-right group which opposes immigration to UK and supports repatriating non-british immigrants to their "ancestral homelands" by generous financial incentives.[3]

Laura Tyrie (pseudonym Laura Towler)
Frogs, clowns and swastikas
Alt-right
Chuds
Rebuilding the Reich, one meme at a time
Buzzwords and dogwhistles
v - t - e

Towler has appeared on This Week on the Alt Right with Collett.[4]

According to a report by Hope not Hate, Towler is "A former army cadet and politics graduate, since 2017 she was an editor of the white nationalist/alt-right news website, Defend Evropa, where she claims she began her activism, though her attention has increasingly been on PA activities."[5]

As of September 2020, Towler's YouTube videos have more than 3,000,000 views, while she has 55,000 followers.[6]

On 18th April 2020, Towler attended the Awakening conference in Finland with Tomislav SunićFile:Wikipedia's W.svg, Edward Dutton and other far-right individuals.[7]

Views

Towler pre-2017 was part of the counter-jihad movement; she radicalised further to become a white nationalist. She opposes feminism and says her idol is the fascist Oswald Mosley.[8]

Towler promotes various anti-Semitic conspiracy theories including the Kalergi Plan:

Should we believe that The Great Replacement is a natural occurrence, or is it possible that it was planned all along?

Whether you believe the first option or the second, Kalergi’s plans certainly seem to be fully realised across Europe today. Every year, miscegenation produces thousands of mixed race citizens (or “sons of Kalergi”) across our continent. Meanwhile, our politicians, media and educators sell us false information about humanitarian issues and tolerance and diversity. Our proud, White history is rewritten in front of our eyes with the aim of making us believe that Europe was always a home to millions of migrants from the Third World, when in fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. We’re taught that it is wrong to love and support your own race and to be proud of your identity (but only if you’re White!) and any attempts by us to speak out about unvetted immigration or culture clashes is silenced by new hate speech laws which struggle to even define what hate speech actually is.[9]

Towler opposes interracial marriage, writing: "one thing that we must do if we want to reverse this is to marry within our own race and produce white children" and "If we are to shift public opinion on racial dating preferences then this must start with us being brave enough to admit that we only want to date our own."[10]

Non-surprisingly, for a hardcore racist, Towler is a proponent of Richard Lynn's dubious ideas about race and intelligence. She argues non-white immigrants to UK have reduced the overall IQ of the country: "We can easily begin to see here how having a lower percentage of high-IQ native Europeans and having a higher percentage of lower-IQ non-native people in Europe has had a negative effect on our countries’ average IQ scores."[11]

As a racial/white nationalist, Towler is not a fan of civic nationalism, arguing the latter is "fake patriotism".[12]

Defend Evropa

Towler was an article writer for the website Defend Evropa from April 2017 to March 2020.[13] Media Bias/Fact Check has ranked factual reporting on the website low, describing it as a strongly-biased website "that has poor sourcing, hate language and affiliation with known white nationalists".[14]

Several of Towler's articles argue that white people need to increase their fertility rate, and she supports the pro-natalism policies of Viktor Orbán who promised that Hungarian women who have four or more children will never pay income tax again.[15][16][17] According to Towler: "This is a great sign for other nations who may choose to prioritise incentivising native families to have more children, rather than relying on mass immigration and the inevitable demographic replacement that follows."[18] In July 2018, Towler wrote another article for Defend Evropa titled "Success! Hungary Begin to Increase White Births Without the Aid of Immigration".[19] Despite her obsession with getting white people to breed more, Towler (born 1987) herself is childless resulting in white nationalists from her own community to criticise her.[20]

In September 2018, Towler wrote an article supporting the right-wing populist Swedish Democrats who want to ban Muslim immigration.[21]

Yorkshire Tea

Towler in June 2020 made the following tweet that has been quoted by Daily Mail[22], Yorkshire Post[23] and The Guardian[24]:

“”I’m dead chuffed that Yorkshire Tea hasn’t supported BLM.
—@thisislaurat[25]

Yorkshire Tea in response, tweeted:

“”Please don't buy our tea again.

We're taking some time to educate ourselves and plan proper action before we post. We stand against racism.

Black Lives Matter
—@YorkshireTea[26]

Towler responded by posting a link to Sean Last's blog.[27] Last is a white nationalist who formerly wrote articles for a neo-Nazi Holocaust denial blog The Right Stuff.

gollark: You seem to have missed some purposes of conversation. I would actually like to know why. It's quite unusual.
gollark: Why did you get missiled? That's bad for your health. You should avoid this.
gollark: This is actually quite silly, since if you try and fight in modern mechanized warfare with a sword and such you'll just pointlessly die.
gollark: Well, there exist parts of cities which aren't entirely garbage, so I don't know if that would work well.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433676879363309569/945405442316718090/webcomic.png

See also

References
  1. https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/12759841-patriotic-alternative-ltd (archived screenshot)
  2. Charles, C. "(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, p. 23
  3. https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/our_plan
  4. https://www.bitchute.com/video/FjXIFlsFJSvZ/
  5. https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HnH_Patriotic-Alternative-report_2020-08-v3.pdf
  6. https://www.youtube.com/c/LauraTowler/about
  7. https://blogit.kansalainen.fi/haastattelussa-laura-towler/
  8. https://www.defendevropa.com/2020/more/awakening-conference-laura-towler/
  9. https://www.defendevropa.com/2017/news/population-replacement/great-replacement-part-7-kalergi/
  10. https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/culture/heritage-identity/racial-preferences-dating/
  11. https://www.defendevropa.com/2017/news/iq-dropping-across-europe/
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utRSxoWI-M
  13. https://www.defendevropa.com/author/laura/
  14. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/defend-europa/
  15. https://www.defendevropa.com/2017/news/population-replacement/orban-plan-declining-population/
  16. https://www.defendevropa.com/2020/news/hungarys-fertility-rate-rise/
  17. https://www.defendevropa.com/2019/news/viktor-orban-saving-hungary/
  18. https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/britain_take_note_hungary_fertility_rate
  19. https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/news/success-hungary-begin-to-increase-white-births-without-the-aid-of-immigration/
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDakifB4hWU
  21. https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/news/swedish-election-2018-results-reactions/
  22. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8401949/Yorkshire-Tea-hits-far-right-YouTuber-anti-Black-Lives-Matter-tweet.html
  23. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/consumer/please-dont-buy-our-tea-again-yorkshire-tea-responds-anti-black-lives-matter-tweet-2878572
  24. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/09/yorkshire-tea-and-pg-tips-respond-to-anti-blm-boycott-with-solidaritea
  25. https://twitter.com/YorkshireTea/status/1270047023669133316
  26. https://twitter.com/YorkshireTea/status/1270047023669133316
  27. https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1270049210319192065
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