Far right extremists hijack Scots protest against 'asylum seeker hotel'

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A campaign against an “asylum hotel” in Scotland has been hijacked by an extreme right wing group.The Record can reveal the racist Patriotic Alternative group is spreading its vile anti-immigration views on a Facebook group set up by residents of Erskine.The MGM Muthu Glasgow River Hotel - where it’s proposed that almost 200 asylum seekers will be housed - will be the scene of a mass protest on Sunday by the group and far right supporters.

Supporters of the rabble group will come from all over Britain.The takeover of the campaign was signalled by the appearance of PA’s Scotland organiser Kenny Smith, a former BNP election candidate, on the Erskine Against Asylum Hotel group.One local who contacted the Record said: “I joined this group because I thought it was reasonable to state that Erskine is not the right location to bring 200 men who have recently arrived in the UK.“I don’t support racism or have far right beliefs.

But I was furious when I saw a local pressure group turn into a focal point for a group that jumps on every divisive racial issue up and down the country.“I feel like these people are a cuckoo in the nest and they’re taking over.”A storm erupted after it was confirmed that a consultation would take place on the placing of174 asylum seekers in the Muthu Hotel.Most of those housed in the former Erskine Bridge Hotel will be men aged between 18 and 40, the majority of whom have arrived from the Middle East.The Erskine Against Asylum Hotel group was set up on Facebook last Thursday and on Monday night Smith addressed the 600 members.He said: “We have had success in Yorkshire and Wales already preventing the swamping of vulnerable communities with hundreds of young migrant men.“The world is a better place for