Overview
- The Mail on Sunday and GB News report that Bash Back circulated a pamphlet urging supporters to form covert cells and outlining how to commit criminal damage while avoiding detection, stealing equipment, and filming actions.
- The reporting says potential targets include Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, the Free Speech Union, and Sex Matters, with statements attributed to the group warning further actions against political offices.
- Journalists attribute to the group a July vandalism of Wes Streeting’s Ilford North office, which was daubed with “child killer” and had windows smashed following policy moves on puberty blockers.
- An independent security briefing cited by the outlets says intelligence services are monitoring the network, notes steps to conceal identity such as metadata removal and ultra-secure email, and estimates nearly 3,000 social-media profiles follow the group.
- The newspapers say they notified the Metropolitan Police and parliamentary security services, a government spokesman condemned the alleged threats as criminal, and JK Rowling publicly urged politicians to take such warnings seriously.