That's true about the court cases, I do worry about the lies and smearing working though. A poster there who claims not to have heard of them before just unquestioningly accepts someone telling him they're a hate group.

Then again it does seem like they're being listened to by the people that matter; e.g. the BBC giving them a comment. The Labour Party also seems to be less willing to bow to the trolls now - it doesn't seem to be acknowledging any of their demands over Rosie Duffield, Jess Phillips, etc.

If things do continue in that direction, I suspect it will be very hard to find anyone who admits to having backed them before. They'll always find a way to pretend they were always on the so called 'right side of history'.