Nigel Farage’s announcement that Laila Cunningham will be Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor in 2028 has triggered an immediate split on the British far right. The decision has divided Reform’s own base and is likely to sharpen its rivalry with Ben Habib’s Advance UK, itself a breakaway from Reform. The selection of a Muslim […]
The far-right candidate for London mayor – based in Dubai
Ant Middleton has spent recent months presenting himself as the man to “fix London” as he pitches voters to elect him as its next mayor. Which is odd, because the former soldier and television personality does not live in the capital – or anywhere in the United Kingdom, come to that. In fact, Middleton is […]
BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud
The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is at the centre of an entertaining row as a group of former members and activists claim they are mounting a campaign to wrest control from current leader Adam Walker. The campaign, described by its organiser […]
Huge opposition leads to police ban on UKIP march
Try as he might to feign anger as he announces that his planned march in Whitechapel this coming weekend has been banned, you can almost sense the relief in Nick Tenconi’s voice that he doesn’t have to go through with it after all. And that in Sir Mark Rowley and “two-tier policing” he has someone […]
UKIP’s annual conference attracts record breaking numbers – EIGHT!
Before last weekend’s UKIP conference began, Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker issued strict instructions, especially to the chap filming proceedings: only the speeches were to be shown. Absolutely no audience shots. And now we know why. For just a brief moment, the official camera forgot Walker’s injunction and panned round to welcome recent Reform defector […]
Anti-migrant campaigners planned to ‘petrol bomb lefties’
Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has ramped up his allegations against other anti-migrant campaigners whom he previously accused of planning terrorist acts. Until a month ago Donaldson, a former soldier who launched the GBNP in August last year, was a close collaborator with Clare Walsh and her partner James Hodges, aka ‘The Viking’. […]