The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to avoid it. From the wreckage of the BNP through the serial reinventions of UKIP and the endless splintering of various fascist micro‑parties, the movement has been defined less by ideological coherence than by personal fiefdoms, […]
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Advance UK’s election campaign hit by backlash over candidate’s sexist posts
Advance UK’s campaign in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been seriously set back after a wave of anger, including from within its own ranks, over misogynistic tweets posted by its candidate, Nick Buckley. The posts, published by Searchlight last night and viewed thousands of times today, contained abusive and degrading remarks about women, particularly […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate: ‘Many young British women are whores’
Nick Buckley, the Advance UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, has posted a series of social media messages where he makes hugely insulting and derogatory claims about women. In May 2025, Buckley wrote on X: “Many British young women are whores but don’t realise they are.” In the same post, he claimed that […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate is Nick Griffin fanboy
Advance UK’s candidate in the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, Nick Buckley, is an unashamed and self -confessed admirer of former BNP leader Nick Griffin, one of the UK’s leading fascists and Holocaust deniers. Buckley hosts a YouTube podcast called Nick Talks. A week ago, Nick Griffin was his guest, interviewed at length. But this […]
Advance UK’s big day out at the races…
Only last month Ben Habib’s Advance UK had plans for a launch event in Wales rather spoiled when the venue cancelled the booking. So they’re trying again. They are advertising a launch meeting in South Wales 0n 29 November. But the venue is not yet being disclosed. So perhaps we can help. It’s being held […]
Newcastle: Advance opens the door to ‘Tommy Robinson’ and Tenconi is seen off
Newcastle had more than its fair share of far-right wingers turning up at the weekend, with Ben Habib’s Advance UK holding its launch conference in the city, and Nick Tenconi holding a demonstration with his UKIP goon squad. Ben Habib had planned a glitzy event to launch his Advance UK party, which has been endorsed […]