A national newspaper has reported on the Vote Leave campaign as follows: The campaign for Britain to leave the EU has been infiltrated by dozens of far-Right extremists with racist views.
I interpret the word infiltrate to imply deception, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary currently defines the word in terms of secrecy. Therefore I fail to see how a young woman with a large swastika tattoo can be said to have infiltrated any organisation.
At the time of writing, the newspaper identifies Vote Leave campaigner Mark Collett as a senior BNP official, but earlier today I typed his surname into the search box on the BNP website, and it produced no results.
The newspaper also has an issue with another Vote Leave campaigner, Richard Edmonds, having attended a conference of holocaust deniers - that is, people who deny that Hitler's National Socialist regime deliberately exterminated millions of Jews. This conference was reported on by the same newspaper, although with some subsequent modification.
Some readers might find it curious that many people in the press and on television seem to regard holocaust denial as a sign of bad character. There are many academic disputes about supposed historical events, and we are not normally expected to demonise people who take one point of view rather than another.
I hope to write in more detail on this subject in future, but then I have said that before. I will however draw the reader's attention to two quotes from the newspaper report:
Its
underpinnings in the realm of historical fact are non-existent – no
Hitler order, no plan, no budget, no gas chambers, no autopsies of
gassed victims, no bones, no ashes, no skulls, no nothing.
I want the Jews and whoever else is spinning this story to answer certain questions concerning the technology.
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