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TV and radio presenter Alice Levine is off to the seaside – but it’s not going to be much of a holiday. She’s spending the week with British nationalist Jack Sen and his family in a bid to understand more about extremist attitudes, which are on the rise throughout the Western world.
“I embrace diversity and tolerance,” she says. “He’s definitely going to say stuff that turns my stomach. Seven days
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is a really long time.”
It’s a bizarre set up as Alice stays in the Southport home of Jack, his Ukrainian wife, their young daughter and Jack’s mother, who immediately declares Donald Trump is her hero.
Jack, who was expelled from UKIP after sending anti-Semitic tweets and was even suspended from the far right BNP party, now promotes his right wing ‘message’ online from home.
And as Alice moves in, she knows she’s going to have to use her best poker face. She listens to Jack explain why he is against multiculturalism and has issues with blacks, Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, feminists and liberals.
Shocked, Alice comments that his views are “troubling”, “ludicrous” and “offensive”.
She is introduced to Jack’s online community, including former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, Tim Scott, a former British Army soldier who promotes far right causes, and former BNP leader Nick Griffin.
There are many odd moments, but watch out for one particularly heated debate when Alice prods Jack on his Indian heritage. And the whole nauseating affair ends with Alice experiencing “one of the most uncomfortable moments” of her life.