Matthew and Sadie Single

[[File:MatthewSingle.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Matthew Single dons a hilarious version of the only far-right joke.]]
{{conspiracynav|1}}{{UKpolitics}}[[File:HOPE Sussex.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Welcome to [[conspirituality]] land.]]
{{cquote|Those arrogant monsters never realised what they’ve done for us – they’ve given us the greatest gifts, they’ve opened our eyes, they’ve given us our family. [The pandemic has] done me a massive favour: it’s taken away the people that weren’t really my family, but it’s given me my real family. Behind me outside, I've got 100 people that I regard as brothers and sisters that I never even knew a while ago.|||Matthew Single on losing his family but finding community during his pandemic fight against the "[[they]]".<ref name=vice230622>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vgky/freedom-music-festival-covid COVID Truthers Are Having Their Own ‘Red Pill’ Glasto] by Tim Hume (June 23, 2022) ''VICE News''</ref>}}

'''Matthew Single''' {{lived|1971|}}<ref name=CompaniesHouse1>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/XKc1P-Y__ekviEI5M_RC8oLiAeA/appointments Mathew Charles GRAHAM-SINGLE] ''Companies House''</ref> and '''Sadie Single''' (née Graham) {{lived|1978|}}<ref name=CompaniesHouse2>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/br1woJ49WlgdoSnxDrJW2sd8lcM/appointments Sadie Bethany SINGLE] ''Companies House''</ref> are [[antivax]], anti-lockdown, [[COVID-19 denialism|COVID-19 denialists]], who were expelled from the [[British National Party]] (BNP) in an internal dispute which included them [[doxing]] the entire membership.<ref name=hopenothate080921>[https://hopenothate.org.uk/2021/09/08/the-singles-are-ready-to-mingle/ The Singles are ready to mingle] by Duncan Cahill (September 8, 2021) ''Hope Not Hate''</ref> The Singles later put their involvement in the BNP down to “naivety”, and claimed to have met with “acceptance and understanding” through their pandemic protests.<ref name=guardian110123>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/11/we-walked-into-a-trap-anti-vaxxers-on-life-after-conspiracy-theories ‘I was wrong’: how Covid conspiracies became a gateway to extreme views] by Ben Quinn (January 11, 2023) ''The Guardian''</ref> They run what they describe as a “community of freedom-loving people”, promoting [[survivalism]] and raising funds to exist “outside of the control of the state”,<ref name=guardian110123 /> and what others describe as an [[Illegal schools in the United Kingdom|illegal school]] teaching a full curriculum "through the prism of conspiracy with history lessons involving teaching that the [[9/11 truthers|US government knew in advance about the 9/11 terrorist attacks]], and discussed the possibility that [[stars]] were not real and were in fact lights."<ref name=times210123>[https://archive.ph/Dnphx Hope Sussex school trains next generation of conspiracy theorists] by Tom Ball (January 21, 2023) ''The Times'' (archived January 21, 2023)</ref><ref name=times170723>[https://archive.ph/yCEaK Hope Sussex: Children’s crossbow lessons at ‘school for conspiracists’] by Tom Ball (July 17, 2023) ''The Times'' (archived July 17, 2023)</ref>

==BNP doxing==
{{cquote|What you put on the internet can never be taken from it, and while there may be some members in this organisation who do not deserve to be protected by the law, they should be able to expect that officers within the organisation will not abuse the information provided to them.|||Judge John Stobart<ref name=guardian0100909>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/sep/01/ex-bnp-member-fined-names-leak Ex-BNP man fined for leaking details of thousands of party members] by Alexandra Topping (September 1, 2009) ''The Guardian''</ref>}}

Matthew Single, who had formerly served as the British National Party's head of security,<ref name=mail071208 /> was fined a measly £200 by Nottingham magistrates in September 2009, for leaking online the names and details of the 13,500 members of the BNP in a revenge attack following an internal dispute which had resulted in his expulsion.<ref name=guardian201108>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/nov/20/bnp-party-membership-griffin-court List reveals bitter party infighting] by Helen Carter (November 20, 2008) ''The Guardian''</ref>
{{Quotebox|It comes as no surprise to me that somebody to do with an organisation that prides itself on Britishness is in fact living off the British people on jobseekers' allowance, and that is why the fine is so low as to be ridiculous. — Judge John Stobart<ref name=guardian0100909 />}}

Sadie Single, a former BNP councillor on  Broxtowe Borough Council, was also initially charged in connection with the incident, but those charges were later dropped.<ref name=mail071208>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092567/Revealed--blonde-university-graduate-held-BNP-internet-leak.html Revealed...the blonde university graduate held over BNP internet leak] by Jason Lewis and Ross Slater (December 7, 2008) ''Mail on Sunday''</ref>

The Singles are said to have moved south following the incident, and Sadie seemingly retrained as a teacher, working for Hellingly Primary School, in East Sussex, until 2021, when she left due to her antivax actions. Both Singles were arrested for these actions during the [[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic]], with Sadie Single being filmed pulling the hair of a police officer.<ref name=vice230622 /><ref name=times210123 />

==HOPE Sussex==
{{cquote|Our concern is that they are operating a sham home education centre that is in fact an [[Illegal schools in the United Kingdom|illegal school]].|||Ofsted spokesperson<ref name=times210123 /><ref name=argus110223>[https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23269401.sussex-community-centre-denies-teaching-conspiracy-theories/ Sussex community centre denies teaching conspiracy theories] (February 11, 2023) ''The Argus''</ref>}}
{{cquote|Fighting for [[freedom]] and [[Truthiness|truth]] forms the very core of our ethos at HOPE Sussex.|||Matthew Single<ref name=vice230622 />}}

The Singles and '''Katy-Jo Murfin''' {{lived|1981|}},<ref name=CompaniesHouse3>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Os2KG4wll_oTMe-TxM4gCVx_NN0/appointments Katy-Jo MURFIN] ''Companies House''</ref> a former theatrical {{wpl|nepo baby||}} (daughter of {{wpl|Karl Howman}}) turned anti-vaxxer,<ref name=mailOnline080122>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382693/Six-million-people-follow-anti-vaxxer-lies-social-media.html Millions are following anti-vaxxer lies: Probe reveals the vast influence of social media posts that Chris Whitty says 'misled' many of those now fighting Covid in hospital] by Michael Powell and Natasha Livingstone (January 8, 2022) ''The Mail on Sunday''</ref> founded '''HOPE Sussex'''<ref name=CompaniesHouse4>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14431631 HOPE SUSSEX COMMUNITY - HOME OF POSITIVE ENERGY CIC] ''Companies House''</ref> an “autonomous community” centre, for antivaxxers who had pulled their kids out of mainstream education to use for lessons,<ref name=vice230622 /> on an 80-acre site near Netherfield in East Sussex in 2022.<ref name=guardian110123 /><ref name=times170723 /><ref name=hopenothate060324>[https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-hope-sussex/ CASE FILE: Hope Sussex Community] (March 6, 2024) ''Hope Not Hate''</ref>

{{Quotebox|We are a magnet to all people that have recognised the cold truth that we are ruled by deeply corrupt career politicians, that seek our subservience and will use fear and division to achieve it. — Matthew Single<ref name=vice060822>[https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vpd4/covid-truther-commune-england ‘Recipe for Disaster’: COVID Truthers Want To Set Up Separatist Collectives] by Tim Hume (October 6, 2022) ''VICE News''</ref>}}

Despite claims that it is an [[Illegal schools in the United Kingdom|illegal school]], with up to 20 primary-school-age pupils,<ref name=times210123 /> which encourages parents to remove their children from mainstream state education and in favour of an alternative, conspiratorial curriculum, while telling local authorities that the children are being [[Homeschooling|home-educated]], HOPE Sussex maintains it is:
{{Quotebox|[A] community centre that hires its facilities to allow home-educating families to supplement their children’s education with wholesome and [[Critical thinking|critically thinking]] tutors.<ref name=times170723 />}}

This claims seems somewhat undermined by the fact that it provides a template letter to prospective parents for informing their children’s current school they are removing them for homeschooling.<ref name=times210123 />

The (definitely not a) school has published photos of its (definitely not) pupils engaged in "history lessons" using crossbows and slingshots, led by the Singles and expelled former Tory councillor and founder of the antivax group Resistance GB, William Coleshill, who has regularly harassed members of Parliament.<ref name=times170723 /><ref name=hopenothate060324 />

{{Quotebox|They are coming for our children. We must be prepared to step outside of the comfort zone of simply protesting and demonstrating with placards and megaphones&nbsp;— we have our army in the field, now we must press forward with greater more specific action. — Matthew Single<ref name=times170723 />}}

Other (definitely not) lessons given by the "tutors" include foraging, survivalism, welding, and [[Shamanism|shamanic practices]].<ref name=times210123 /> Ofsted initiated an inspection based on doubtlessly unfounded concerns, but were prevented from entering by two “obstructive and uncooperative” members of staff.<ref name=times210123 />

Supporters of the school have included:
*[[Mike Fairclough]], who lost his job as headmaster of a local state school in part due to his connections with the (not a) school (his wife is an organizer and his kids are pupils) and a talk he gave here praising the “global freedom movement” and its opposition to the plan by “globalists” to “disempower people and take away their freedoms”.<ref name=times210123 />
*Danny Glass of the British far-right [[paramilitary]] group [[Alpha Team Assemble]], which calls for “global war against governments,” who later withdrew his support citing “serious safety and security concerns,” following a falling out.<ref name=times210123 />

==Freedom Music Festival==
In July 2022, the Singles hosted a three-day “Freedom Music Festival,” at HOPE Sussex. Billed as a “[[Alt-right glossary#Red pill|red-pill]] event”, it featured “performers that aren’t afraid to spread the truth and haven’t let any lure of fame and fortune bend their integrity.” Namely conspiracy theorists {{wpl|Danny Rampling||,}} Mark Devlin, and {{wpl|Right Said Fred||.}}<ref name=vice230622 /> 

In an apparent change of pace, the 2023 Freedom Music Festival was headlined by [[David Icke]] and featured talks by Michael Chaves and Monica Smit.<ref name=mailOnline240623>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12330749/Covid-anti-vaxxers-conspiracy-theorists-including-David-Icke-Freedom-Music-Festival-kids-spout-nonsense-claims-5G-masts-9-11-attacks-Lee-Rigbys-murder.html Welcome to the festival of conspiracy theories: Sussex hosts jamboree for people who claim that 9/11 and Lee Rigby's murder were a hoax and Covid vaccines are a mind control plot] by Tom Coterill (July 24, 2023) ''Daily Mail''</ref>

They have also hosted events featuring the likes of {{wpl|Rachel Elnaugh||,}} [[Katie Hopkins]],<ref name=argus170124>[https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24051585.katie-hopkins-host-two-shows-sussex-school-run-ex-bnp-members/ Katie Hopkins to host two shows at Sussex school run by ex BNP members] by Zac Sherratt (January 17, 2024) ''The Argus''</ref> and {{wpl|Kate Shemirani||.}}<ref name=times170723 /><ref name=hopenothate060324 />

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