We see that Tommy Robinson has decided to have a moan about early prisoner releases (to help with overcrowding). We feel confident that he will be talking out of the other side of his arse soon enough. Robinson (aka Stephen Yaxley Leprechaun) is pretty good at getting himself banged up. We don’t mind betting that […]
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Loyalists have short memory of Farage betrayal
Well, after one act of backstabbing betrayal by Nigel Farage today – dumping his deputy leader Ben Habib – we are now reminded of another: Traditional Unionist Voice MP and party leader Jim Allister (pictured) has announced he may sit with Reform UK in the Commons and accept the Reform whip. According to the BBC: […]
Final farewell from UKIP Party Director
Well, as we predicted, recently departed UKIP Party Director and NEC member Pat Mountain has now also resigned her Directorship of UKIP Ltd, the company which controls the party, and indeed as a party member. So, it’s an angry goodbye from her, the latest in a long list of high level departures, as concerns about […]
White Nationalist Motown Meltdown
By Chuck Tanner and Devin Burghart, IREHR On 15 June, influential white nationalist “Groyper” leader Nick Fuentes attempted to hold a fourth version of his America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC IV) in Detroit, Michigan. It was his latest move to pull the right in a more antisemitic and fascist direction. Amidst the chaos of […]
UKIP fallout: Party Director Pat Mountain runs for the hills…
The dramatic demise of UKIP continues unabated: another long serving, senior party loyalist has cut and run for the hills in the wake of the party’s disastrous election campaign and the fallout from it. Pat Mountain, UKIP’s Party Director, has over the last few days been airbrushed out of all leadership positions recorded on the […]
Knives being sharpened after extreme right election disaster
By Paul Gale As the dust settles on an election campaign which for them was universally catastrophic, the UK’s extreme right is licking its wounds and eyeing up potential targets for blame. The main factor behind their dire performance, of course, was the involvement of Reform UK especially after Farage announced his candidacy in Clacton […]
The election: breakthrough for Farage, disaster for the rest of the extreme right.
By Paul Gale It’s understandable for Labour Party members to be euphoric this morning. And anti-fascists outside Keir Starmer’s party might also be tempted to join in the celebrations and avoid looking too closely at the overnight results. That would be a mistake. After years of deliberate pandering to culture war rhetoric (in other words, […]
As the UK goes to the polls, fascists wet their lips at prospect of Tory collapse
By Paul Gale After all the flags of convenience, dog-whistles and evasions of this election campaign, how does the British far right look on polling day, and what are its plans for the new Parliament? We can start by looking at one constituency that British fascists have been heavily publicising this week. Leigh and Atherton […]
Yerbury outflanks Patriotic Alternative boss Collett and sets public showdown
By Paul Gale Alek Yerbury, founder and leader of the National Rebirth Party, and the chap with a penchant for pencil moustaches and military-style great coats, has again put pen to paper to offer a comment for the Searchlight website. Now, it has to be said that Mr Yerbury is, by a considerable distance, the […]
Patriotic Alternative leader’s latest chat show guest is a real charmer…
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 […]