“£2000 GIFTED TO FAMILY OF POLITICAL PRISONER JORDAN WINYARD” screams the latest Trump-style, all-caps announcement from the, as ever, over-excitable collecting tin rattlers Patriotic Alternative. If only they’d spent just a tiny bit of the tens of thousands that have flowed into their begging bowl this year on a spelling checker, it would have told them that the’ve missed the ’R’ out of ’GRIFTED’.
From there on, it’s the usual ’two-tier smear’ strategy. He’s a good lad really. He didn’t actually do anything. It’s his little kids who are being punished by not having their dad home for Christmas. He’s banged up, they wail: ”for throwing ’missiles’ during a protest. Nobody has ever explained exactly what these missiles were supposed to have been”.
Well, first off, it wasn’t a ’protest’ but a riot. It was the infamous attack on Tamworth’s Holiday Inn, which the mob attempted to burn down using several petrol bombs. They also attacked the police, throwing projectiles including bottles and bricks.
No doubt Winyard disguised himself by wearing a pig mask throughout this frolicking to prevent the police or anyone else identifying him as a man doing… er… absolutely nothing wrong If no one went into the specifics of Winyard’s missiles in court, it was probably because they felt that reciting the details would just be wasting the court’s time. He had, you see, already pleaded guilty to violent disorder. The three-year sentence was really only to be expected.
We do, of course, feel sorry for these kids, but the only reason they will be having a crappy Christmas is because Daddy Pig decided to go out and be a violent thug.
Bryan Wall exposes a Dublin-based company whose texts peddle ‘the great replacement theory’, ‘Marxist cults’ and ‘the climate change hoax’ by anti-Semitic and white supremacist authors
An international publisher of anti-Semitic, white supremacist and conspiracy theorist literature is operating from Dublin. Omnia Veritas, translated roughly as “Truth conquers all things”, has been in business for the past 11 years. The company was originally registered in 2013 by Childéric Marcelou and David Marcelou, listed respectively as secretary and director. According to Irish Companies Registration Office documents, David was based in Passage West, County Cork, while Childéric gave an address in Grenade, France.
Recent updates show the company now has a registered office on Baggot Street in Dublin and a new key principal, Florian Ventura.
Ventura is owned by a parent company, Omnia Publica International, which holds all the shares in Omnia Veritas. Company documents also seem to show that it is based at an address in Belize. Although recent profits for the company’s Irish-based wing seem to be minimal, with assets amounting to €2,806, older financial returns show a rather different picture. In 2019, the company reported assets of over €96,000.
The company’s web store is a who’s who of US and French anti-Semites and white supremacists. Among the authors on sale is Eustace Mullins, a notorious and virulent US bigot who wrote the tracts Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation and The Biological Jew,not to mention countless others on topics ranging from biblical reinterpretations of anti-Semitism to the US Federal Reserve.
In The Biological Jew, Mullins writes: “Treason, fraud, perversion, all the hallmarks of Jewish life among the gentiles in the Diaspora. And it is parasitism.” Mullins was also a widely respected leader among the US militia movement in the 1990s following publication in 1952 of a book on the US Federal Reserve, where he argued that the US banking system was merely a tool of the Rothschilds.
Another title is The Dispossessed Majority by Wilmot Robertson, which is a pseudonym for Sumner Humphrey Ireland. This promotes an early version of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and is one of David Duke’s favourites. Robertson argues that white people are being overtaken by “minorities”, calling for a white ethnostate and the deportation of all Jewish people.
Also available is the manifesto of James von Brunn, who in 2009 opened fire in Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum. A virulent anti-Semite with a long criminal history, von Brunn murdered special police officer Stephen Johns and engaged in a brief firefight with two others before he was wounded.
Conspiracists
The tomes of Adolf Hitler, Julio Meinvielle, Edwige Thibaut, Archibald Ramsay, Myron Fagan and Deirdre Manifold can also be purchased from the website. One of the more recent additions to the company’s portfolio is Irishman Emmet Connor. Promoting his new book on the so-called Marxist cult, in which he lays the blame for all the world’s ills at the feet of Marxism, he appeared in September in a livestream interview with Ireland First’s president Derek Blighe.
Blighe, who was unsuccessful in both the local and European Parliamentary elections this year, appears to be leading the charge among Ireland’s far right for the upcoming general election. Aside from almost daily canvassing updates on social media, he attacks the government, opposition, the left in general and its supposed collective responsibility for what he sees as “uncontrolled mass immigration” to Ireland. Not content with one conspiracy theory, he opines that climate change is a “scam”.
During his interview with Connor, Blighe again attacked climate change as a hoax and pontificated on the dangers of open borders, while Connor discussed the “Marxist international conspiracy”. Society, it would appear, has been infiltrated from top to bottom by Marxism, with Connor proclaiming that the government, education system, civil service, police force, and even climate change activists, feminists and vegans, are all part of an “ideological war”.
During an interview in June, Connor repeated the long-debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 had originated in a lab in Wuhan, claiming that this “obviously means the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, is involved”.
Connor’s social media is replete with shares of posts from Ireland’s most prolific race-baiting publication, Gript, along with retweets of well-known Irish far-right agitators and anti-trans activists, such as former soldier Mike Connell and Jana Lunden. Echoing some of his fellow Omnia Veritas authors, in early October he wrote on his X account: “All white populations will be forced to become second-class citizens in their own countries, since according to the ideology of Marxism, this is fair and justifiable.”
It is a disturbing evolution of Irish politics that a general election candidate could host someone with such views and links without any pushback. Ten years ago, it would have been unbelievable, today, it is becoming the norm.
This breath-taking documentary has been long in the making, has already won 7 awards and will no doubt win more. Ken Keable, himself a London Recruit, felt compelled to document and tell the hidden stories which he did in his book London Recruits: The Secret War against Apartheid published in 2012. When the director, Gordon Main, heard about Ken’s book he felt similarly compelled to put those stories onto the big screen. That it has taken him 10 years to do so is an indication of his dedication to this project and how important he feels it is to tell the story of what he sees as mainly working class solidarity, across international borders to fight against the injustice of South Africa’s apartheid in the late 1960’s and 70’s.
In 1962, the ANC had been crushed with Mandela serving a life sentence and many other leaders in exile. Oliver Tambo, living in London, was tasked with building support for opposition to apartheid outside of South Africa. Tambo was an astute strategist and saw a role above and beyond protests and boycotts of South African goods and banks. His vision was for young White British activists to pose as tourists and travel to South Africa to undertake acts of propaganda. The acts were all peaceful but recruits were warned of the heavy price they would pay if caught and they were crucially all sworn to secrecy. This secrecy was kept by most recruits for the many decades after their missions and until Ken Keable began contacting them and they began to recall the most extraordinary events undertaken by, as they all have said, very ordinary people.
The film is a powerful blend of a small group of the almost 100 recruits recounting their part in a particular mission, alongside some excellent reconstruction of the ambitious and daring mission itself. Main and his co-directors secured a really stellar cast taking on the roles of those recruited by Ronnie Kasrils under the command of Oliver Tambo, alongside an excellent South African cast and crew.
The film is graphic in its depiction of apartheid in action with archive footage and reconstruction again blended to great effect. The bravery of the recruits and South African activists is astounding when faced with vicious beatings and death threats. It is an immensely emotional film which certainly fulfils part of its purpose in making the viewer ask oneself – what would I do, what can I do, in the fight against injustice. It is visually stunning, and both excruciating and exhilarating to watch.
The official premiere was a screening on 21st November 2024 at the Ritzy cinema, in Brixton, with many of the recruits present in the audience and one of the recruits featured in the film part of the post screening Q and A session. There have been many preview screenings of the film at earlier stages of its existence and it is now ready for further community screenings of which there will be many up and down the UK. Interested groups are asked to make contact via the film’s website where you can also see trailers for the film that will undoubtedly make you determined to find a screening. www.londonrecruits.com
if you want o find out about some of the other recruits not featured in the film, you can find many of their testaments and media interviews at the website of original book, The London Recruits. https://londonrecruits.org.uk/
The directors and the recruits want the film to be used for education and as a call to action for the next generation of activists. They want it known that despite the UK government’s support and endorsement of the South African regime at the time, ordinary people were willing to put themselves at risk for what was not obviously ‘their’ fight , to support the South Africans in a struggle which they ultimately won themselves, on their terms. The recruits, for their part, are simply happy to have played a small part, as a catalyst, in rebuilding the underground movement that rose and re-organised and saw the eventual demise of over 40 years of apartheid.
You know what to do: go see the film.
The People’s Release: 21 Nov 2024 to Freedom Day on 27th April 2025.
So, the far right – in this case the Traditional Britain Group – is getting all upset about a new TV series that features people of colour working during the Blitz.
If we are being generous, we can attribute this to a lazy, mistaken view that Britain was 100% white in the 1930s and 1940s. But it wasn’t. Long established communities of Chinese, Africans and Jews were to be found in our major cities and many notable figures are recorded in British history. Just read Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann for an excellent look at the situation in the 1500s. So it is indeed the racist right who are seeking to change history and obscure the truth that that these isles have been truly multiracial for the longest time.
As is well documented, many thousands of black and brown people joined the fight against Nazism and fascism in World War 2. And, specifically, there is nothing historically inccurate about portraying black people also working during the Blitz: take the case of George Roberts (above, right) who fought in the British Army in the World War 1, then served in the fire service in London during the Blitz. In 1944, he was awarded the British Empire Medal, in part for outstanding service in his firefighting duties. A man who did far more for the country than the useless gobshite keyboard warriors who populate the TBG social media feeds.
As the party lurches from defeat to disaster, Mark Scholl wonders how much longer its leader, Paul Golding, can continue to kid enough people to fund his futile activities
In 2016, Paul Golding and his ex‑girlfriend Jayda Fransen were able to lead several hundred supporters through Rotherham in a protest against so-called grooming gangs. This scandal, which rocked the town and left the police and social services with many serious questions to answer, spoke to 20 years of failure – 20 years of letting vulnerable children down at every turn.
Against this background, Golding, Fransen and his reasonably well‑organised Britain First activist corps were able to encourage a segment of the local population to take to the streets. Golding, of course, had no tangible answers, as the authorities, seeing the error of their ways, were slowly starting to look in the mirror and admit to what had happened.
At this time, Searchlight readers may remember, Britain First was trending on Twitter and Facebook and had hundreds of thousands of theoretical supporters. Most important of all, from Golding’s perspective, these were all potential donors and, given the apparent level of political action, they gave generously. When microphones were listening and recorders recording, Golding, in several unguarded moments, admitted that his group had raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Having been trained by, and at the time friendly with, Belfast bible‑basher and financier Jim Dowson, Golding had learnt how to extract the maximum funding from donors and supporters. Dowson and Golding linked up during the relatively heady heights of the British National Party’s (BNP) growth period in the mid to late 2000s, culminating in the election of Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons to the European Parliament.
It was at this time, in Dowson’s Belfast call centre, well organised and very well-funded, that Golding saw opportunities to raise money. He was making several thousand pounds a month from his BNP work at the time.
He was even an elected BNP councillor between 2009 and 2011, horribly misrepresenting St Mary’s Ward, Swanley. Little did he know that the miserable 2.8% of the vote he received as the BNP parliamentary candidate for Sevenoaks in the 2010 general election would be his highest ever personal vote.
What a rap sheet …
Britain First was always about Golding and his need to fund a certain lifestyle. His style, if that is what it is, is the pushy used car salesman from South East London. Everything must be done now, money is needed now, this is the best product – sorry, cause – that your money can buy.
Ask rightwingers for their main criticism of Golding and they will reply: “He’s always asking for money.” If they are reasonably well clued up, they will also tell you that pictures released of various activities always tend to include the same rump of shabbily presented individuals, with Golding in the middle pretending to be a modern-day Winston Churchill.
Begging letters attached to e-mails are sent out weekly, if not twice weekly: Britain, patriots or, more likely, Golding himself, are “under threat”. In the great leader’s case, it’s almost certainly to raise funds to get him out of the latest legal wrangle. But leading a gang of criminals almost certainly requires leadership by example. Here is a flavour of the Golding rap sheet: criminal damage, breach of the peace, harassment, breach of court order, religious harassment, assault, religiously aggravated harassment, threatening abusive and insulting language, inciting racial hatred, offences under the Terrorism Act. Were that not enough, there are also two jail sentences, one suspended sentence and numerous fines and community orders.
But there are other crimes that Golding has been accused of, not the least of which were hugely serious allegations made against him by none other than former lover and deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who said that during their abusive relationship, he hit her on several occasions. These revelations sent shockwaves throughout Britain First and the fascist movement in general. Great damage was caused to Golding and many activists left there and then.
Now, Fransen associates with Nick Griffin, Jim Dowson, a small group of anti-abortion activists in Northern Ireland where she lives and makes regular weekly videos in which supporters are encouraged to donate during proceedings.
Going down …
Fast forward to today and Britain First is still on the scene. But nothing has changed, except that Golding, and his new Jayda, the hapless Ashlea Simon from Walkden, Manchester, now run the party.
Paul Golding (above with mic) and Ashlea Simon (above right), organise events just to give the impression of activity to get donors to cough up their money
Despite the claims that Britain First is led by “the last man standing on the nationalist scene” and that Golding’s supposed “experience” (the arrests? the prison sentences? the woman beating? the hatred directed at minorities, especially Muslims?) makes him the “natural leader of the nationalist movement”, his party is in decline.
Still able to pull in lots of money, often from former supporters who do not even realise that their small recurring donations of £5 or £10 continue to be taken from their bank accounts, the party has gone from defeat to disaster.
A recent “national conference,” reported by Searchlight, was held in what can only be described as a scout hut complete with an ancient 1980s games console sitting in the corner! The attendance, as all the imagery we examined indicated, was under 40.
This is not a thriving national movement. It has fewer active branches than ever and sources tell us that Golding and Simon know this and are organising regional events only in order to give the impression, to donors, that activities continue apace.
Hence pictures of various, obvious, publicity gimmicks around the UK. Banner drops that last 30 minutes. Photographing a handful of activists with a large anti-immigration banner sneaking onto Parliament Square in London early one morning. Driving the ancient Britain First battle buses into Blackpool only to be given short shrift by police and public alike. And, most recently, another “national march” in Tamworth peopled by a busload of around 40 activists.
The normal procedure is to take plenty of photos and video, stick them on Britain First social media accounts on Telegram and Twitter/X and pretend that this really is (honest, guv) a “growing nationalist movement”.
Irrelevant
The problem is, it is the same few people in most photographs, which means that the demands on hardcore activists, a few dozen nationally, are huge – money, time, travel, effort, danger. That’s because Britain First is not only unpopular, but largely irrelevant on the nationalist scene and Golding knows it. From 300 marchers to under 50 in ten years. Hardly the stuff of legends.
Fantasy thinking: Dreaming of a non‑existent ‘glorious’ past
Then there are elections. This is a story of utter and embarrassing failure from a mere 400 votes in the Wellingborough by-election to absolute disaster in the London Mayoral Election, where Nick Scanlon, the Britain First candidate, got around 1% of the vote and was ignominiously defeated by joke candidate Count Binface.
Britain First simply cannot compete with Reform UK Ltd – not a chance. Voters will always opt for the marginally more respectable Faragistas. Worse still, Golding and Simon spent tens of thousands (£50k, we’re told) on the London campaign. Much of this was to guarantee that candidate Scanlon appeared in the official booklet offered to several million voters and delivered to all houses in advance of polling. Golding, boasting about this inclusion, claimed it would bring in huge interest, more supporters, funds, credibility. But, we understand, it almost bankrupted the party, bringing Golding’s decision-making again into serious question.
Better grifters
Last man standing? Maybe within Britain First’s weird little orbit, but do not forget, Golding is up against the British Democrats, with seasoned, veteran fascists like Andrew Brons, Jim Lewthwaite, Laurence Rustem and old BNPers like Derek Beacon. Then there is Patriotic Alternative, clearly better grifters than Golding, Robin Tilbrook’s comedy English Democrats, getting in bed with the political Mary Celeste that is UKIP; the Homeland Party under Kenny Smith that has had a reasonably good year, and Alek Yerbury’s National Rebirth Party that, although small, is engaging in real time local political activity with limited success.
And there are others too, particularly the whole casual street movement under the direction of the grifter par excellence, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), the hooligans’ favourite Irishman living in Spain on his Irish passport.
With Britain First, it is always about the money – and to donate you would have to have a failing or short-term memory. Urgent money for legal bills, newspapers, leaflets, the occasional election, security for the alleged “fantastic new Britain First HQ” that is permanently shrouded in mystery, which looks more like Harry Potter’s broom cupboard under the stairs – complete with thousands of undelivered Britain First leaflets – money for new cameras, money for trips abroad and so it goes on …
What has the several millions Golding has got through since Britain First was founded actually delivered from a nationalist point of view? Virtually nothing apart from arrests, charges, prison sentences and regret. It has failed to deliver anything of note and Golding presents a very shabby appearance these days, despite having tens of thousands of donors’ money on which to draw.
Simply stunts
Where is it all going? ask former members, people on the far right, donors and activists.
How long will Golding and Simon be able to carry on in this current iteration of Britain First? Not long, if their own propaganda pictures are anything to go by. When you release pictures of a banner drop and there are more union flags on display than activists there is a problem. It is gesture politics at its worst.
There are few local branches. Election candidates are appointed way beyond their natural ability. An example of this is wannabe Proud Boy Alex Merola, the Wellingborough failure whose only ability appears to be agreeing enthusiastically with Leader Golding during BF live streams.
Boasting about being friends with Tommy Robinson does not appear to help Golding either. Why would it? Nobody apart from football hooligans, the desperately misled and bigoted, support Yaxley Lennon. And he is better at grifting than Golding. The gig may indeed be up …
Just as we pen this testament to Golding’s failing political entity, the Great Leader has rather proved our point with a Telegram post that says: “Britain First takes over a busy roundabout in Salford, Manchester.”
We rest our case …
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