Laura Towler
Laura Melia (née Tyrie; born 1987), better known under the pseudonym Laura Towler, is a British nationalist activist and the deputy leader of Patriotic Alternative. She is also the creator and owner of Grandma Towler's, a tea and coffee company that donates its profits to projects that benefit Britons.
Life
A native of Yorkshire, Towler served in the Army Cadets before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics. She came to the attention of the Nationalist movement in 2017 as the editor of the nationalist news website Defend Europa. Towler then created a YouTube channel and started posting videos regularly, amassing over 55,000 subscribers before voluntarily leaving the platform due to its censorship.
In 2019, she and Mark Collett conducted the We Were Never Asked survey, asking Britons across the country their opinion on the demographic trend that is predicted to make the British a minority in Britain by 2060, and finding that 68.5% thought it was a bad thing and 4.8% thought it was a good thing. Later that year, Towler would accept Collett's offer for her to be the deputy leader of the new organization he was forming, called Patriotic Alternative.
On June 6, 2020 Towler took to Twitter to claim that she was "...dead chuffed that Yorkshire Tea has not supported BLM"[1]. The company replied to her on the social media website asking her not to comment about their company again.[2] In response, Towler decided to start her own tea company with her husband, Sam Melia. The company was named Grandma Towler's and launched in 2020.[3]
In November of 2020, Towler claimed that she was attacked by three masked "antifa," and that one of them had pushed her, but that her husband had fought them off. She went on to say that a woman had seen the attack and called law enforcement.[4]
Since 2021, she has co-hosted the lifestyle and politics show Tea Time with Sam & Laura with her husband.
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References
- ↑ Towler, Laura, Twitter, June 6, 2020, https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1269395475549085696
- ↑ Tweedy, Joe, "Yorkshire Tea hits back at far-right YouTuber who praised the brand for not tweeting about Black Lives Matter - telling her 'please don't buy our tea again',"Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8401949/Yorkshire-Tea-hits-far-right-YouTuber-anti-Black-Lives-Matter-tweet.html
- ↑ Grandma Towlers, "about," December 26, 2023, https://www.grandmatowlers.co.uk/about/
- ↑ Towler, Laura, Twitter, November 14, 2020, https://twitter.com/thisislaurat/status/1327565896521543680
