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 […]
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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 […]
Neo-nazis and far right groups rally round English Democrats election campaign
The English Democrats, a nominally multiracial party that campaigns for an English Parliament, have made an unprecedented electoral pact with some of Britain’s most hardline nazis and, as Searchlight predicted a few days ago, emerged as an election stalking horse around behind which various extremist factions are gathering. ED founder and chairman Robin Tilbrook (above) […]
Reform candidate for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney forced to stand down
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cerr84j3ezko One down – a Reform candidate who retweeted Britain First and supported the ‘Great Replacement’ theory. How many more before this campaign is over? Lie down with dogs…
More Reform candidates ‘friends’ with New British Union leader, Raikes
Seems like many more Reform candidates than just Robert Kenyon are Facebook friends with Gary Raikes, leader of New British Union. Good Law Project reports that there are no less than 14… New British Union is dedicated to ‘Restoring Faith in fascism’. Anything to say @Nigel_Farage ? https://goodlawproject.org/reform-uk-suspends-candidate-who-shared-video-shot-at-far-right-protest/…
UKIP stand candidate in Clacton after pledge to withdraw
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 […]
Don’t be ambushed by the D Day opportunists
Photo: www.britishnormandymemorial.org We are reflecting, exactly 80 years after the events, on the D Day landings. And sighing in exasperation at the efforts of tinpot populists to make some cheap political capital out of the anniversary, moaning that children and young adults are unaware of the history of D Day. Of course, D Day should […]
Farage’s fever fantasy: today Clacton, tomorrow the world
One thing that you have to hand to Nigel Farage is that he’s good at warping the media agenda. The BBC News channel froze all other coverage to subject viewers to a slightly deranged announcement about one slightly down-at-heel seaside town. Or one very shoddy fringe politician. Take your pick. Yes, Narcissistic Nigel is off […]