White Pendragons

The White Pendragons are a tiny, Trump-supporting racist group in the UK. They spend their time:

  • trying and failing to perform citizen's arrests of politicians they don't like, such as the Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq KhanFile:Wikipedia's W.svg[1]
  • talking about how Anglo-Saxon (i.e. white) English people supposedly invented absolutely everything that is great in the world[2]
  • and pushing deranged conspiracy theories — in particular:
    • freemen on the land theories involving the Magna Carta
    • conspiracy theories that the actually rather moderate Fabian Society is part of some secret extremist plot[2]
Inventing "The Other"
Islamophobia
Fear And Loathing
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People associated with the group have previously been involved with the anti-Muslim English Defence League[2] and the micro-party the English Democrats (not to be confused with the US Democratic Party, with which it has no relationship).[1]

While claiming (probably for legal reasons) that they welcome people of all races and religions,[1] there is no evidence that they are anything other than an all-white, ethnonationalist group.

Khan "arrest"

They purportedly tried to arrest Sadiq Khan in 2018, claiming that he should not be mayor of London "because he is a Muslim" (holding a political office while Muslim is not, needless to say, a crime in the UK). However, in doing so, they demonstrated that they did not know what a citizen's arrestFile:Wikipedia's W.svg was, seemingly believing that it involved calling the police to arrest someone (that is a normal arrest). In reality, it was more of a protest to get media attention, which achieved its objectives, but reporters present had a hard time making sense of who they were or what they wanted from listening to their jumble of wingnut complaints.

They also, disturbingly, brought along a home-made gallows, but hid it out of sight outside, presumably so they would not be arrested for threatening behaviour or similar.[2]

gollark: It's because your programs end with `error`, presumably.
gollark: Hmm, so what you're saying is that tail calls are incomprehensible dark magic.
gollark: Tail calls are where you call a function at the end of a function or something, and this is magically optimized better because something something stack.
gollark: Couldn't you just PR it to not not do that?
gollark: You can, as far as I know, emulate pcall-type stuff with temporary coroutines (which is very hacky but oh well), and those would probably not be subject to stack stuff.

References
  1. http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38627/1/pro-trump-white-supremacists-just-tried-to-arrest-sadiq-khan
  2. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sadiq-khan-speech-white-pendragons-brexiteer-donald-trump-group-pro-leave-mayor-london-a8162291.html
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