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, […]
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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 […]
Exclusive: ‘UKIP is over’ says former Deputy Leader in open letter to 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 […]
Perry resignation leads to new allegations against UKIP chairman
Happier days…. UKIP’s former Deputy Leader, Rebecca Jane, who resigned in January with a furious attack on party Chairman Ben Walker, has returned to the fray with another barrage of allegations following the sudden resignation of recently elected UKIP leader Lois Perry. In comments on right-wing Twitter accounts, including GB News, Rebecca Jane claims that […]
Newly elected UKIP Leader quits
Only a few weeks after being elected as Leader of UKIP, Lois Perry suddenly resigned yesterday, citing health issues. However, whilst her departure in the middle of the election campaign was remarkable, it is not itself altogether surprising. It was never clear when she ran successfully for the party leadership election only two months ago, […]
More high level departures from UKIP
Recent weeks have witnessed a couple more high-level departures from the sinking ship that is UKIP, in apparent disgust at what has been happening at the heart of the party. Lois Parry’s recent election as Leader meant she automatically joined the Board of Directors of UKIP Ltd., the company which owns the party, and is […]
UKIP: desperate move to refill the ranks
UKIP has moved significantly to the right in recent months with the lifting of a long-standing ban on former members of fascist and nazi groups joining the party. The move appears to have set off something of a crisis in the party, with several high-level resignations ensuing. UKIP’s rule book for many years contained a […]
Tommy Robinson vs the media – and the ‘great replacement’ theory that links him to Christchurch
This article, by Tash Shifrin, first appeared on Dream Deferred on 21 March 2019. As “Tommy Robinson” released his Panodrama video in front of up to 4,000 supporters in Salford on Saturday 23 February, he was already expecting the ban from Facebook that followed two days later and urging his supporters to subscribe to his […]
This Friday, central London, oppose Tommy Robinson & UKIP: don’t let the racists divide us
UKIP has called a “Make Brexit happen” rally this Friday 29 March in Whitehall. The fascist “Tommy Robinson” (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) will be speaking. Stand Up To Racism and Unite Against Fascism have called a counter demonstration at 14.00 – details here.
Unite against Tommy Robinson’s hate march
Stand Up To Racism calls upon anti-fascists to oppose Tommy Robinson’s and Gerard Batten’s ‘Brexit crisis’ demonstration under the slogan ‘Don’t let the far right hijack May’s crisis. No to racism and fascism.’ Fascist ‘Tommy Robinson’, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and his thuggish supporters will take to the streets of London on Sunday 9 […]
Analysis: the ‘Free Tommy’ demo and a year of far right protests (with table and video)
This article by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin first appeared on Dream Deferred on 11 June 2018. Thousands of protestors turned out in Whitehall, central London, on Saturday 14 July for the latest “Free Tommy Robinson” demo – and the latest in just over a year of far right racist street protests, which we have listed […]
Extremely strange political bedfellows
In the past week the media have reported on the delegation of British right-wing politicians led by Nigel Farage who met US president-elect Donald Trump at his New York headquarters. Present with Trump was his head strategic adviser Steve Bannon, who controls the alt-right Breitbart news service. Farage came with Raheem Kassam, Breitbart’s London editor. […]