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Britain’s fascists cross fingers and hope for Conservative collapse

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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 veteran hints at Farage linked anti-UKIP plot

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Neo-nazis and far right groups rally round English Democrats election campaign

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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) […]

More Reform candidates ‘friends’ with New British Union leader, Raikes

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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/…

Nick Griffin minder, Joe Owens, standing as ‘independent’ in Wavertree

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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 […]