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Jacob Rees-Mogg supporters would make the National Front blush
A recently exposed Facebook group for supporters of the creepy aristocratic Tory is full of racial hatred and calls for civil war, discovers LUCY WOOD
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YOU would not imagine that a well-spoken bespectacled gent bearing a remarkable similarity to Lord Snooty from The Beano could be a catalyst for inciting some of the most violent and worrying comments on Facebook. Yet it seems that Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg attracts exactly that kind of supporter.
On a Facebook group dedicated to supporting Rees-Mogg are numerous comments and posts inciting violence, civil war and even “craft activities” such as making petrol bombs.
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