‘Pastor’ Rikki Doolan, UKIP’s spokesman on Culture and Arts, has announced this morning that he is quitting the party. He has posted a statement online saying that there is no falling out, no scandal, and ‘no scoop’ and that he has made the decision for personal reasons. He doesn’t say what those reasons are. Doolan […]
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UKIP licks its wounds and ponders an uncertain future
One of the happy consequences of the recent local council elections – and there weren’t many – is that it seems to have persuaded UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi to keep his mouth shut for a while. In fact, there has been pretty much radio silence from UKIP HQ since the results came rolling in. Utter […]
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that often relies on dog-whistle racism and xenophobia will now try to control large swathes of England. These results make grim reading for anti-fascists and are an indictment of both Tory opportunism and Labour cowardice. Indulging […]
Anti-fascist action in 2025
Some personal thoughts on two successful anti-fascist actions last weekend, and what they can teach us. The past weekend was very instructive as far as anti-fascists were concerned. In Manchester and Birmingham fascists were repulsed. In Manchester, so called hard-core street activists around UKIP leader Nick Tenconi were chased out of Piccadilly Gardens. And in […]
Tenconi does a runner as Manchester demo flops
Deranged and disorganised. The best way to describe today’s illuminating get together in Manchester of racists, cranks, criminals, and conspiracy theorists. And it ended with the sight of UKIP leader Nick ‘The Kick’ Tenconi abandoning all his macho pretentions and fleeing across the centre of the city. Gathering under the banner of Patriots for Britain, […]
The cheek of Old Nick…
“Every metric at UKIP is being smashed. New members are joining in healthy amounts, our candidates list is steadily growing, investment is being sought at every opportunity, and our support base is not only growing but pro-actively asking how they can help develop and campaign for the party’s purple wave now sweeping the United Kingdom”. […]
UKIP Chairman in denial about his criminal convictions
UKIP Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker appears to be in a strange and inexplicable state of denial about his criminal convictions. A UKIP admirer (and boy does she admire him!) who appears on X (Twitter) as @Tammy8762535565, posted recently her passionate belief that Ben is some kind on patriotic superhero: There was a lot of […]
UKIP leader in panic mode as branches collapse and demos flop
UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi is becoming increasingly deranged. The man with the megaphone, making a nuisance of himself in town centres around Britain every weekend, is clearly rattled. Under his new, dynamic leadership, UKIP is falling flat on its face and needs picking up before his political suitor ‘Tommy Robinson’ gets out of jail and […]
Tenconi’s fascists flop in Manchester
Reports of planned march and rally organised by the fascists of UKIP were doing the rounds for several weeks. Those of us in the know understood that the new UKIP, under Nick Tenconi, is desperate for publicity and wants to encourage its membership to take to the streets. Saturday 22 February, 1pm, Manchester City Centre. Be […]
UKIP liars not welcome in Southampton
UKIP ‘Leader’ (he’s still unelected) Nick Tenconi has go the hump that a meeting he was due to address in Southampton has been cancelled. It is, he says, all down to left-wing intimidation. As usual he’s lying. False pretences He booked the venue (The View Bar) as ‘Nick’ for ‘After Work Drinks’ So, not unreasonably, […]
Fascists upset at a taste of their own medicine
Well, those nazi ‘intellectual’ poseurs at Heritage and Destiny magazine are getting themselves into a right lather over the Traditional Britain gig in London that was called off last weekend when anti-fascists turned up outside, sporting a banner saying (wonderfully) ‘Fuck Off Posh Nazis’. If the far right really don’t want their meetings targeted, they […]
The curse of Searchlight, pt 2024 – more UKIP resignations
It seems our UKIP-related posts of the last couple of days have prompted yet further desertions from the upper echelons of the party. Dr Chris Ho (pictured left) a Glasgow-based doctor who had been the party’s Health and Social Care Spokesman, was so dismayed at our story that leader Nick Tenconi had a conviction for […]
UKIP opens door to Yaxley-Lennon and anti-Islam, Christian crusade
Back in 2018, UKIP began tearing itself apart when party leader Gerard Batten appointed Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, as the party’s ‘grooming’ adviser. Batten, who had only recently become leader, was passionately anti-Islam and wanted to move the party firmly in that direction. But an association with the likes of Yaxley-Lennon was too much […]
Short lived UKIP Leader promises to “tell all”…
Well, look at this. Short-lived UKIP Leader Lois Perry “is back”. And in the pink, it would appear. And now she’s promising to “tell all” on Talk TV on Thursday. She’s referring, of course, to her sudden resignation as Leader, announced in the early hours of the morning, just a few weeks after being elected […]
UKIP – an onward march to the gutter and oblivion
It really is becoming bit embarrassing reporting on the latest absurd goings on in that retirement home for right wing geriatrics and conspiracy nut jobs that goes by the name of the United Kingdom Independence Party as it continues its journey into the gutter of politics and oblivion. As we have recently reported, members have […]
Far right pulling out the stops for Robinson’s rally
Britain’s far right is falling in behind the Luton leprechaun ‘Tommy Robinson’ to build his 27 July rally in Trafalgar Square. Amongst those gathered this week in an office in Fleet St to discuss how to promote the event were Laurence ‘Looza’ Fox, Katie Hopkins, Calvin Robinson, UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, former leader Gerard Batten, […]
Final farewell from UKIP Party Director
Well, as we predicted, recently departed UKIP Party Director and NEC member Pat Mountain has now also resigned her Directorship of UKIP Ltd, the company which controls the party, and indeed as a party member. So, it’s an angry goodbye from her, the latest in a long list of high level departures, as concerns about […]
UKIP in disarray as members “leave in droves”
For a party in the middle of a general election campaign, UKIP is in a state of some disarray, with reports of an exodus of members outraged at recent revelations. Although its website continues to insist that Lois Perry is party leader 2024-2028, this is of course complete nonsense. Perry quit several days ago. The […]
UKIP veteran hints at Farage linked anti-UKIP plot
Was Lois Perry’s resignation as UKIP leader part of a Nigel Farage-inspired plot? “I couldn’t possibly comment” says her UKIP leadership election rival, Bill Etheridge. Interviewed on the right-wing online ‘Freeman Report’, Etheridge, a long-standing, senior UKIP veteran and one of its Euro MPs from 2014 -2019, pours scorn on the idea that she was […]
Searchlight exclusive: ‘UKIP is over. Its members are simply lining one man’s pocket’ – former Deputy Leader’s open letter to UKIP members.
Rebecca Jane Sutton (aka simply ‘Rebecca Jane’) was Deputy Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party from October 2022 to January 2024. Rebecca has decided that Searchlight would be an appropriate vehicle to carry an open letter from her to UKIP members. After reading that letter, we feel that she is right. We are, of […]
