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 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 […]
Will Rupert Lowe ‘Unite the Right’?
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, […]
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 […]
Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times
There is just one major takeaway from yesterday’s Tommy Robinson-organised ‘Free Speech’ festival in London – 110,000 supporters of a far-right, racist agitator marched through London in the biggest public demonstration of fascism ever seen in this country. Just think how often we refer back proudly to over 100,000 people coming out to support the […]
Tommy Robinson joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
Tommy Robinson has announced that he is joining Ben Habib’s Advance UK party, and is calling on his followers to do the same. The move was announced in a video which Robinson posted yesterday. It was filmed in central London but shows signs of having been recorded before Robinson fled the country after an assault […]