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 She broke the law by inciting and encouraging others to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Some people actually tried to do so as we saw. That type of speech can quite reasonably be described as "hate speech".  All civilised societies have laws which place limits on free speech. That's why we have laws that prohibit incitement to violence and murder. 
 Thats fine, it is technically incitement to violence i agree and broke the law. This is a rare case that something called hate speech is actually incitement to violence though as most of the time its not. Although like i indicated i can understand how people are getting so frustrated that they feel the need to resort to this kind of extreme behaviour and speech. Working class people get a lot of their joy in life from the simple things like social cohesion, camaraderie, togetherness, identity, familiarity. Their main things in life arent money and power like those few who are making much of the decisions for the country