Britain First have got their ‘battle bus’ back and are hailing it a “massive, massive victory” over Manchester police. It really isn’t: in fact, they had to fork out thousands at a police auction to retrieve it from the consequences of their own stupidity. Playground insults The saga began when party leader Paul Golding decided […]
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College dumps Vice-Chair who marched with fascists
The Vice Chair of Exeter College of Further Education has been dumped from its board after being seen marching with fascists in Exeter last weekend. Patrick Tigwell, who was appointed to the Exeter College Board as a governor in 2022 and became Vice Chair two years later, was pictured on Saturday draped in a union […]
Unholy alliance as Reform UK in Exeter cosy up to Britain First
Reform UK’s Exeter branch is under growing pressure to explain itself as some its most prominent local figures are associating – both online and on the ground – with the openly fascist Britain First. Last Saturday Exeter witnessed the first far-right mobilisation in the city since the English Defence League’s appearance in 2013. Though the […]
Police authorise destruction of Britain First battle bus
As we predicted , Britain First leader Paul Golding has found it very difficult – in fact impossible – to get new insurance for his ‘laughably named ‘battle bus’ which languishes in a police pound in Manchester. As a result, we are moving close to the time when the police will simply crush or auction […]
Police threaten to crush Britain First ‘battle bus’
Police in Manchester are threatening to crush the Britain First ‘battle bus’ unless leader Paul Golding can come up with new insurance within the next few days – and that may not be as easy as it sounds. But first, let’s recap: three weeks ago, Paul Golding and his co-leader Ashlea Simon drove their ill-named […]
Britain First ‘battle bus’ seized by police – again
So here’s how it unfolded. A week ago, British fascism’s village idiot Paul Golding drove his Britain First ‘battle bus’ around Manchester bearing a banner saying ‘Keir Starmer is a wanker” (Oh, how we laughed!). He was stopped by Greater Manchester Police for behaviour likely to cause offence, served with a Section 59 order and […]
Golding ignores police warning and Britain First ‘battle bus’ is seized at Labour conference
“Well, he’s been warned” That’s what we wrote in our article only two days ago about Paul Golding and his Britain First ‘battle bus’ being stopped by police in Manchester. Adorned with the oh-so-humorous banner saying “Keir Starmer is a wanker” he was driving through Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, only to be stopped, quite rightly, […]
Police put brakes on Britain First’s battered battle bus
In what is becoming a tediously regular occurrence, Britain First managed once again to prise their so-called “battle bus” out of the mechanic’s clutches and into a bad-tempered stand-off with the police. The emerald-green minibus – surely the least intimidating “battle bus” in political history – trundled through Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, on Saturday blaring […]
Manchester – latest chapter in Britain First’s slow death
Britain First leadership was confidently predicting thousands of marchers for its event today in Manchester. It turned out to be considerably less than that with estimates varying between 400 and 700. Only the BBC placed the numbers present at over 1000. This was certainly more than at its previous recent marches in Nuneaton and Birmingham, […]
Who’s the mystery lady with the nazis?
In the wake of Britain First’s embarrassing showing in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago, Patriotic Alternative posted a picture to show that they had been helping to make up the numbers for Paul Golding and his sorry BF band. It posted what it said was a group of PA supporters, one of whom has […]
Birmingham day out with a nazi troublemaker
Meet Ryan Ferguson. He’s the piece of work who turned up at the Britain First march in Birmingham on Saturday wearing a Heil Hitler tee-shirt. Now we can see how he was looking for trouble from the minute he arrived in Birmingham from Liverpool, and how he was welcome to walk at the head of […]
Britain First breakdown in Birmingham
They were outnumbered by anti-fascists, corralled by the police and ignored by the public. Britain’s First’s latest attempt to whip up ‘remigration’ fever ended in yet another humiliating failure. With midday fast approaching, even the most seasoned reporters were shocked by the tiny numbers making their way to the Britain First meeting point outside the […]
Birmingham Council spikes Britain First rally with bollards ban
Birmingham City Council have put a spoke into the wheel of the rickettty old bike that is Paul Golding’s Britain First. They have decided that Britain First does not match up to its declared principles of equality, community cohesion and the promotion of British values. So, they are implementing their No Platform policy in relation […]
Britain First in Birmingham – the final shakedown?
Paul Golding has promised thousands of “patriots” will attend his Britain First rally in Birmingham this coming weekend. There will be “a larger turnout of patriots from around the country compared to our last event in Nuneaton”. That would not be difficult. The Nuneaton march and rally was a total, ignominious failure with just 100 […]
Britain First leader staring Brum failure in the face
As Britain First’s 17 May Birmingham demo approaches, co-leader Paul Golding is getting increasingly desperate. His bizarre antics over recent weeks suggest he may be heading for a political and nervous breakdown. He now claims that his last big event, ‘the rally to end all rallies’ in March in Nuneaton, which occupied the corner of […]
Britain First leader Paul Golding in ‘You’re nazis’ attack on Homeland Party
Hostilities between groups on Britain’s extreme right have taken a bizarre turn with Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, launching into a furious attack on Homeland Party boss Kenny Smith, accusing him of being a nazi with a swastika tattoo on his chest and challenging him to show his chest and prove it’s not true. […]
Britain First’s Nuneaton humiliation
A thousand flags. £10,000 on PA system, staging and a dozen portaloos. Much boasting. Claims that hundreds would be attending. Six coachloads… which turned out to be minibuses. Everyone was emailed multiple times pleading for members and supporters to chip in a tenner for what turned out to be a humiliation. Few did, and now […]
Britain First leaders convicted of religiously aggravated harassment
Searchlight joins Unite Against Fascism (UAF) in welcoming the guilty verdicts on the notorious leaders of the fascist group, Britain First. Leader Paul Golding and deputy leader Jayda Fransen have been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment. Both were arrested in May last year for distributing leaflets and posting online videos during a trial at […]
Britain First suffer washout in Bromley
Saturday saw a pathetic turnout from Britain First in Bromley, reports Unite Against Fascism. Less than 50 turned out to see their leaders, Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, sign on at the police station, as part of their bail conditions on charges of religiously aggravated harassment. The fascists had hoped to march from Bromley North […]
Fascist EDL – not wanted in Rochdale, this Saturday, 29 July
Just seven days, after the fascist group Britain First held a hate gathering in Rochdale, another group of fascists, the EDL, will be making an incursion into the town. The EDL are, like Britain First, trying to create division by racialising the issue of crimes of sexual exploitation. Our thoughts must be with all those […]