We just can’t let this pass: only a few days ago, UKIP said they were withdrawing from 7 seats to help out Nigel Farage and Reform. As we pointed out, this was complete tosh: they didn’t have candidates for these seats, weren’t going to find any, and anyway, two of the seats no longer existed. […]
Nick Griffin minder, Joe Owens, standing as ‘independent’ in Wavertree
Amongst a number of the well-known far right characters standing as independents in the general election we find this choice specimen: veteran thug Joe Owens, a former minder for Nick Griffin with admitted links to Merseyside gangsters, in Liverpool Wavertree. In 1982 Owens was jailed for posting packages containing razor blades to members of Liverpool’s […]
Reform candidate ‘friends’ with New British Union leader
Searchlight posed a question to Farage and Tice on X yesterday … Hey,@Nigel_Farage and @TiceRichard, you might want to ask your Makerfield Reform candidate, Robert Kenyon, why he includes Gary Raikes amongst his Facebook friends. We only ask because Raikes (pictured, in cap) an ex-member of both BNP and Britain First, is now leader of […]
Clacton’s dumped Reform candidate threatens to split Farage vote
When Nigel Farage made his screeching U-turn from ’There’s no chance that I will run in this election’ to ’I am the candidate for Clacton’ a few people will have thought: How odd, that the seaside town that actually elected a UKIP MP (twice!) should have been left vacant by Reform, and thus be available […]
Farage election U-turn provides cover for fishy candidacy claims by Kippers
Leaders of UKIP are privately offering up prayers of thanks to Nigel Farage for digging them out of a calamity-sized hole. There they were, wondering how on earth they were going to assemble a respectable number of candidates for the election, when good old ‘Dodgy’ Nige comes along and throws them a lifeline. Within 24 […]
Unlikely candidate emerges to dominate far right’s election campaigns
By Paul Gale While most attention turns to Nigel Farage, an Essex solicitor is trying to reshape the far right and may, unexpectedly, dominate the far right’s campaigning efforts in the election. Even before General Election nominations close on Friday, Searchlight has learned that (outside Reform UK and increasingly extreme Tory factions) the largest group […]