The Ministry of Defence says it is taking the allegations very seriously

A Royal Navy sailor who is set to start work on a nuclear Trident submarine, has been exposed as a member of a far-right group.

He is one of two members of the navy, that were found to belong to a group that has links to a banned terrorist organisation, following an undercover investigation by the anti-racism group Hope not Hate, the Observer reported.

The undercover informant was able to gain access to thousands of internal messages, after infiltrating the UK division of the Identitarian movement.

The Identitarian movement has called for ‘ethno pluralism’, whereby people are segregated along racial lines.




A number of Generation Identity (GI) members have previously been found to belong to banned terrorist organisation, National Action.

The movement initially started in France, but has since spread to a number of countries including the UK.

On 27 July, the undercover informant is reported to have met with the sailor due to start work on Trident at the annual conference of GI UK in London.

The sailor who is a member of Generation Identity says officers knew of his membership (Picture: Getty Images)

He told the informant that his membership of GI was a widely known fact among the service.

The informant said: ‘He says the navy knows he is a member of GI. He claims all the officers are racist.’

The identitarian movement is known to advance the ‘great replacement theory’, which was cited by the mass shooters in the Christchurch mosque attacks which killed 51 people in March, and the massacre in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month, which killed 22 people, as one of their motivations.

According to the theory, ‘replacist elites’ are working to replace the white population in European countries with non-European people, especially Arab and Muslim populations.

It is not being suggested that GI UK itself supports or endorses violence.

Generation Identity is known to advance the ‘great replacement theory’ (Picture: Getty Images)

The group was expelled from the wider Identitarian movement after it invited an anti-Semite to one of its conferences.

It is reported that GI UK is now considering a merger with far-right party For Britain, headed up by Ann Marie Waters, whose supporters include Tommy Robinson.

The identities of the two servicemen who were members of GI were sent to the Ministry of Defence.

Simon Murdoch, identitarianism researcher at Hope Not Hate, said: ‘The idea that individuals who subscribe to the dangerous far-right ideology that influenced the Christchurch killer are serving members of the Royal Navy, and that one claims to be taking up a job on a nuclear submarine, is completely unacceptable and actually quite terrifying.

The Identitarian Movement has at least 63 ‘regional branches’ across Europe (Picture: Peter Niedung/NurPhoto)

Members of Generation Identity march in Germany (Picture: NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘We simply cannot allow this dangerous ideology to gain any traction within our armed forces.’

An MoD spokesperson said: ‘It would be inappropriate to comment specifically on these allegations.

‘We take allegations of this nature very seriously and would always carry out investigations into such matters when they are made against service personnel.’

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