Journalist Andrew Doyle has launched a scathing critique of the recent Together Alliance demonstration in London, arguing that participants were marching against a largely fabricated threat.
Speaking to GB News, Mr Doyle argued that the current culture war in Britain is fundamentally built on "imaginary hate," suggesting demonstrators were "largely people railing against things that don't exist."
"What they really mean is anyone who has concerns about illegal immigration, anyone who supports the more populist parties such as Reform, they're effectively imagining an enemy to go out and march en masse," Mr Doyle said.
He also highlighted a significant discrepancy in attendance figures, noting that police put the crowd at approximately 50,000 whilst organisers claimed "10 times that number" at half a million.
Mr Doyle drew a striking parallel between contemporary political discourse and the notorious witch hunts of 17th century Massachusetts.
"In a previous book I wrote, I compared it to The Witch Finders of Salem, because it is effectively people using the accusation, the accusation is sufficient," he explained.
The journalist argued that in today's climate, simply branding someone as far-right or fascist functions as its own evidence, requiring no further substantiation.
"So today the equivalent is you say someone is far-right, fascist, and that's sufficient, the accusation is taken as proof," Mr Doyle stated.
Andrew Doyle has hit out at the 'imaginary hate' targeted at the 'far-right' by the 'Islamo-Leftist alliance'
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He maintained that the Together Alliance demonstration exemplified this phenomenon, with tens of thousands mobilising against a threat he believes has been vastly overstated.
Mr Doyle was careful to acknowledge that genuine far-right extremists do exist within the UK, though he emphasised their numbers remain minimal.
"I'm not saying there that the far-right doesn't exist, but there are very small contingent. Whenever there have been estimates of their numbers, they're always in the low hundreds," he said.
He described these groups as fractured and limited in scope, noting that while some dangerous individuals operate within their ranks, many are already under surveillance by intelligence agencies.
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He said: "They do have dangerous psychos among them who want to cause havoc, and a lot of those are on watch lists by the security services.
"So no one's denying that those people exist, but a big mass march against a tiny handful of psychopaths doesn't serve any purpose, because everyone agrees that those people are bad."
He questioned the purpose of mass demonstrations against what he termed "a tiny handful of psychopaths" when universal condemnation of such individuals already exists.
Mr Doyle characterised the underlying premise of the march as a form of "collective hysteria," built upon the false notion that fascism has become normalised and mainstream across Britain.
He argued: "The march is predicated on the idea that there are fascists goose stepping in every shadow in the UK, that fascism has become normalised and mainstream, and this is simply, factually not true.
"It's like a kind of collective hysteria. And what I fear is when it comes to the culture wars and what we're still living through is that by and large, it is a fantasy, and it's quite a bleak, regressive fantasy."
He expressed bewilderment at what he perceives as a paradox among anti-fascist activists, suggesting they appear almost eager to discover extremism wherever they look.
"It's very odd, isn't it, that the people who claim to be anti-fascist are the most enthusiastic whenever they find it, or whenever they imagine that they see it, they love it, they can't get enough of it," Doyle remarked.