This Saturday, the streets of Liverpool are set to witness a deeply polarizing spectacle. Nick Tenconi, the leader of UKIP, is scheduled to hold a “Walk for Jesus” in the city, assembling on the precincts of the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral. The supposed aim is to “stand for Christ in Liverpool during Lent”, as if every […]
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UKIP appeals for twelve well-heeled disciples
UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters so loaded they can afford, if they are mug enough, to keep both Leader and Chairman salaried for the year. Only twelve places, says Tenconi selling the scheme, as if they’re recruiting apostles rather than […]
Incense, irony and idiots – UKIP’s Birmingham farce
UKIP’s much‑trailed “Christian” march through Birmingham yesterday didn’t so much slide into farce as hurl itself headlong into it, with leader Nick Tenconi dutifully assuming the role of altar boy during a pre‑march prayer ritual staged, with unintended comic effect, outside a pub. Barely a few dozen supporters assembled outside the Fox and Goose pub […]
Tenconi’s UKIP clown show ‘walks with Jesus’ but needs a miracle
What made UKIP leader Nick Tenconi think that somehow the Metropolitan Police would change their mind about UKIP being allowed to march provocatively through Whitechapel last weekend? After UKIP was banned and forced to move to a central London location in October everyone (including Tenconi, surely) assumed the march called for 31st January would face a […]
UKIP Whitechapel march banned as party ditches its rule book
The latest attempt by UKIP to stage a provocative march through Whitechapel has been banned by the Metropolitan Police. Claiming that the event, on 31 January, was to be apolitical and merely a “March for Christ” to reaffirm the UK’s Christian heritage, Tenconi was plainly trying from the outset to provoke a ban or a […]
Tenconi’s sorry UKIP gang in west country fiasco
Nick Tenconi and his goons travelled down to Exeter to meet up with the local far right today. The problem for Nick is that it doesn’t matter which direction he travels, he can’t manage to attract more than a handful of thugs to march behind his banner (and his new Iron Cross flag). At least […]