We know that Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett is not too fussy about the company he keeps – but this one really wins prizes. Last week he treated viewers to his Patriotic Weekly Review online talk show – not for the first time – to an interview with a gentleman who goes by the name […]
Farage ‘suspends’ extreme candidates – but still wants you to vote for them!
Reform UK has dropped its candidate for Derbyshire Dales, Edward Oakenfull (above) for derogatory comments about sub-Saharan Africans and Muslims – a mere 11 days after they were reported by the BBC. Also dropped is Barnsley North candidate Robert Lomas (below) who said that black people should “get off [their] lazy arses” and stop acting […]
Former UKIP Deputy Leader threatens Electoral Commission complaint
Rebecca Jane, UKIP’s former Deputy Leader whose salvo of allegations published in Searchlight last week precipitated a further crisis and exodus of members, has not finished with UKIP yet. She has now written to party treasurer Ian Garbutt (below) reminding him that in this role he is the officer principally responsible to the Electoral Commission […]
New alliances take shape on UK extreme right
New alliances on the British far right are shaping up in advance of polling day. The Social Democratic Party – not the 1980s “Gang of Four” but anti-immigration populists who have tried to resist the “right-wing” label – has an alliance with Reform UK (though far from a complete one). This is why Reform UK […]
Italian antifascists march against fascist thuggery
By Mark Scholl Anti-fascists demonstrated in Rome last Thursday to protest about right-wing street thuggery – in particular the actions of a group of CasaPound fascists who had opportunistically pounced on and beaten up some passer-by students. The event drew opposition politicians, trade unionists and ANPI, the organisation dedicated to keeping alive the spirit of […]
Heritage Party conspiracy-nuts fight 41 seats
After Reform UK, the far-right party fielding the most candidates in the general election is the Heritage Party, a UKIP breakaway heavily involved in promoting conspiracy theories about vaccinations and other strange obsessions. It is putting up 41 candidates. They are standing against Farage in Clacton, and against the English Democrats candidate Steve Laws in […]
Britain’s fascists cross fingers and hope for Conservative collapse
By Paul Gale Leaders of Britain’s fascist parties are already planning their next moves, anticipating the Conservative Party’s collapse at the general election. Mark Collett has struck a short-term deal with English Democrat leader Robin Tilbrook and is running four members of Patriotic Alternative (now Britain’s largest nazi movement) as election candidates. Steve Laws, a […]
UKIP in disarray as members “leave in droves”
Photo: Short lived leadership team Lois Perry and Nick Tenconi For a party in the middle of a general election campaign, UKIP is in a state of some disarray, with reports of an exodus of members outraged at recent revelations. Although its website continues to insist that Lois Perry is party leader 2024-2028, this is […]
UKIP veteran hints at Farage linked anti-UKIP plot
Was Lois Perry’s resignation as UKIP leader part of a Nigel Farage-inspired plot? “I couldn’t possibly comment” says her UKIP leadership election rival, Bill Etheridge. Interviewed on the right-wing online ‘Freeman Report’, Etheridge, a long-standing, senior UKIP veteran and one of its Euro MPs from 2014 -2019, pours scorn on the idea that she was […]
Searchlight exclusive: ‘UKIP is over. Its members are simply lining one man’s pocket’ – former Deputy Leader’s open letter to UKIP members.
Rebecca Jane Sutton (aka simply ‘Rebecca Jane’) was Deputy Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party from October 2022 to January 2024. Rebecca has decided that Searchlight would be an appropriate vehicle to carry an open letter from her to UKIP members. After reading that letter, we feel that she is right. We are, of […]
English Democrats candidate quits and calls for support for Reform
The English Democrats/Patriotic Alternative/UKIP election alliance has suffered an embarrassing blow in Great Yarmouth where their candidate, Catherine Blaiklock, has issued a statement calling on people not to vote for her. Blaiklock is a former leader of the Brexit Party, but had to stand down in 2019 when it was revealed by @hopenothate that […]
Perry resignation leads to new allegations against UKIP chairman
Happier days…. UKIP’s former Deputy Leader, Rebecca Jane, who resigned in January with a furious attack on party Chairman Ben Walker, has returned to the fray with another barrage of allegations following the sudden resignation of recently elected UKIP leader Lois Perry. In comments on right-wing Twitter accounts, including GB News, Rebecca Jane claims that […]
Newly elected UKIP Leader quits
Only a few weeks after being elected as Leader of UKIP, Lois Perry suddenly resigned yesterday, citing health issues. However, whilst her departure in the middle of the election campaign was remarkable, it is not itself altogether surprising. It was never clear when she ran successfully for the party leadership election only two months ago, […]
The European Elections: A Paradigm Shift for the Far Right?
By Martin Smith The evening the French European election results were announced, Marine Le Pen held a party at a swanky night club in the woodlands of the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. It was a select gathering of dignitaries from the far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National – RN). In attendance was the party’s […]
‘Sneaky’ Farage betrays hardline loyalist allies
Nigel Farage’s return to the political frontline hasn’t been an altogether smooth ride. Soon after parachuting into Clacton, he was denounced by the sitting Reform UK candidate he had peremptorily displaced. Anthony Mack, now standing against Farage as an Independent, wrote on Facebook: “It’s those sneaky f******s who disguise themselves as good people who do […]
More high level departures from UKIP
Recent weeks have witnessed a couple more high-level departures from the sinking ship that is UKIP, in apparent disgust at what has been happening at the heart of the party. Lois Parry’s recent election as Leader meant she automatically joined the Board of Directors of UKIP Ltd., the company which owns the party, and is […]
Exposing the ‘independent’ candidates
Left to Right: Brian Silvester, Andrew Emmerson, David Durrant, Ray Brady Throughout this campaign we will be on the lookout for ‘independent’ candidates with a background in far right politics. Just so that voters are aware that they if they vote for them, they may not necessarily be voting for some non-party servant of the […]
Is a UKIP undertaking worth the paper it’s written on? It appears not…
As we reported last week, when Nigel Farage assumed the leadership of Reform UK and threw his hat in the ring in Clacton, UKIP Leader Lois Perry squealed with delight and announced that, in order to support her ‘friend’ and further the cause of right-wing unity, UKIP would stand down in Reform’s favour in seven […]
British Democrats’ election quartet scrapes barrel with gun shop man
‘British Democrats to stand candidates at the General Election 2024’ shouted the party’s website. In a lengthy but not exactly full explanation of the decision, the leaders reminded members that their 2023 AGM (presumably held in a bus shelter smelling of wee) decided almost unanimously that the party should field ‘a limited and select number […]
South Yorkshire voters beware – Vote SDP, get Nigel Farage!
In 122 UK constituencies in the forthcoming election the ballot paper will include candidates from the cosy-sounding Social Democratic Party. This outfit, however, is nothing like the party launched back in 1981 by the ex-Labour Gang of Four, David Owen, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, and Bill Owen, which merged with the Liberals in 1988 to […]