The far right’s much-hoped-for populist right realignment, meant to fuse Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, has turned into the car crash we predicted. Lowe had already failed conspicuously to respond to Habib’s offer of a merger when, on 5 March in a leaked voice note, Habib fired off both barrels. . […]
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Far-right chaos merchant may cost Reform in Margate
A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform UK’s hopes of recovering a crucial county council seat in a by-election When we last reported on the tangled tale of Graeme Sergeant, the former BNP organiser behind the “Restore UK Kent)” Facebook group, he […]
Ex‑BNP organiser causes far‑right chaos in Kent
A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from one newly-launched party to another and back again, leaving a trail of confusion and recriminations in his wake. Graeme William Sergeant, a retired plumber and Millwall supporter from Herne Bay, is a onetime BNP activist […]
Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online interview that Gorton & Denton candidate Nick Buckley has given to the far‑right National Housing Party. Despite its almost whimsical name, the organisation’s ideological lineage is unmistakably fascist. It emerged in the early 2020s under […]
The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton & Denton by-election. Steve Smith, best known as organiser of Burnley BNP during the early 2000s, was photographed out on the campaign trail for the Advance candidate last weekend, and Buckley himself happily posted this photo […]
Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting on the factional tensions simmering beneath the right‑populist realignment, and suggest that the attempted consolidation […]