Laura Towler

Laura Towler (real name: Laura Tyriehttps://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/12759841-patriotic-alternative-ltd (archived screenshot)) currently known as Laura Meliahttps://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HNH-Patriotic-Alternative-report-Dec-2023-FINAL.pdf is a British Islamophobe, white nationalist and global warming denialist who along with neo-Nazi Mark Collett leads Patriotic Alternative — a far-right group which opposes immigration to the UK and supports repatriating non-British immigrants to their "ancestral homelands" by generous financial incentives.https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/our_plan
Towler has appeared on This Week on the Alt Right with Collett.https://www.bitchute.com/video/FjXIFlsFJSvZ/ According to a report by Hope not Hate, Towler is "A former army cadetIn the UK an army cadet is a member of the ACF, a youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. It has no actual military role and is strictly apolitical. 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."https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/HnH_Patriotic-Alternative-report_2020-08-v3.pdf
In September 2020, Towler's YouTube videos had more than 3,000,000 views with 55,000 followers. She used her channel to promote far-right material but was later banned from YouTube.Charles, C. "(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, p. 23https://www.youtube.com/c/LauraTowler/about
On 18th April 2020, Towler attended the Awakening conference in Finland with Edward Dutton, and other far-right individuals.https://blogit.kansalainen.fi/haastattelussa-laura-towler/ 
==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.https://www.defendevropa.com/2020/more/awakening-conference-laura-towler/ 
Towler promotes various anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including the Kalergi Plan:
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."https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/culture/heritage-identity/racial-preferences-dating/
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."https://www.defendevropa.com/2017/news/iq-dropping-across-europe/
As a racial/white nationalist, Towler hates civic nationalism, arguing the latter is "fake patriotism".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utRSxoWI-M
===Global warming denial===
Towler appeared on a video chat with Mark Collett, her husband Sam Meliá, and two other Patriotic Alternative supporters to discuss the 2021 London Mayoral election and its candidates. Towler, Meliá and Collett in the chat espouse global warming denial views and criticise the Green Party and Animal Welfare Party for wanting to take radical actions to mitigate climate change.https://odysee.com/@mark318i:e/LondonMayoralElection2021:3 Meliá and Collett also criticise the Animal Welfare Party for its promotion of plant-based diets. Of all the mayoral election candidates, Towler says she would support Laurence Fox.
==Defend Evropa==
Towler was an article writer for the website Defend Evropa from April 2017 to March 2020.https://www.defendevropa.com/author/laura/ 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".https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/defend-europa/
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.https://www.defendevropa.com/2017/news/population-replacement/orban-plan-declining-population/https://www.defendevropa.com/2020/news/hungarys-fertility-rate-rise/https://www.defendevropa.com/2019/news/viktor-orban-saving-hungary/ 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."https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/britain_take_note_hungary_fertility_rate In July 2018, Towler wrote another article for Defend Evropa titled "Success! Hungary Begin to Increase White Births Without the Aid of Immigration".https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/news/success-hungary-begin-to-increase-white-births-without-the-aid-of-immigration/ 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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDakifB4hWU
In September 2018, Towler wrote an article supporting the right-wing populist Swedish Democrats who want to ban Muslim immigration.https://www.defendevropa.com/2018/news/swedish-election-2018-results-reactions/
==Yorkshire Tea==
In June 2020, Towler made the following tweet, that has been quoted by the Daily Mail,https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8401949/Yorkshire-Tea-hits-far-right-YouTuber-anti-Black-Lives-Matter-tweet.html Yorkshire Post,https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/consumer/please-dont-buy-our-tea-again-yorkshire-tea-responds-anti-black-lives-matter-tweet-2878572 and The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/09/yorkshire-tea-and-pg-tips-respond-to-anti-blm-boycott-with-solidaritea
In response Yorkshire Tea tweeted:
Towler responded by posting a link to Sean Last's blog.https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1270049210319192065 Last is a white nationalist who formerly wrote articles for a neo-Nazi Holocaust denial blog The Right Stuff.
==Arrest==
Towler and her husband Sam Melia, a regional organiser for Patriotic Alternative, were arrested in April 2021 for racial hate speech and public order offences. Their electronic devices were seized by the police but they were released without charge. Melia is a former member of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action.Patriotic Alternative - Neo Nazis Melia and Towler Arrested, Released For Now. farrightwatch.net.
On April 30, 2021, Towler wrote an article "Things I Wish I Did Before Being Raided by the Police," claiming that "It is blatant political intimidation by the police. Criticise the government’s immigration policy as we will brand you as a terrorist."Things I Wish I Did Before Being Raided by the Police
In January 2024, Sam Melia was convicted for distributing material intending to stir up racial hatred.Far-right organiser found guilty of intent to stir up racial hatred through distribution of stickers. cps.gov.uk. Melia is alleged to be the leader of the far-right group Hundred-Handers in Pudsey, Leeds. He is known to have displayed a picture of Adolf Hitler and Third Reich posters in his home.UK man with Hitler picture in home used sticker campaign to stir racial hatred, court told. theguardian.com. 
According to Hope not Hate, Sam Melia has a long history of racism:
This included threats of hanging people.
Melia was sentenced to two years imprisonment in March 2024.UPDATED WITH SENTENCE: Far-right organiser found guilty of intent to stir up racial hatred through distribution of stickers. cps.gov.uk. The judge branded him an "antisemite" with "Nazi sympathies".Samuel Melia: Far-right activist jailed after sticker campaign. bbc.com.
Towler has raised £28,000 from gullible dupes portraying Melia as a victim of an "anti-white tyranny".
==See also==
* Emil Kirkegaard — far-right eugenicist who claims white people should have at least 4 children, despite being childless himself (perhaps because all the women he knows have the good sense to avoid his penis at all costs)
* Edward Dutton — racist pseudoscientist who attended Patriotic Alternative's 2019 conference with Towler
==External links==
*Laura Towler on Twitter (suspended)
*Laura Towler on YouTube (suspended)
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