PAUL NUTTALL AND THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE: MICHAEL McMANUS – ‘FAR-RIGHT RECRUITER’

The UKIP leader has made a steady rise through the ranks in the years since he first joined the party many years ago. Early on he became one of the first ‘graduates’ of UKIP’s Young Independence youth movement and was part of the embryonic UKIP presence in Brussels – becoming a junior, then senior party …

Something is rotten in the branch of Bristol.

Which is the most feckless UKIP branch in the country? Is it the UKIP Lambeth and North Croydon branch, which was suspended (yes, the entire branch) last December? Probably, but we think UKIP Bristol would be a good candidate for the award.  Its committee members are listed on its website, optimistically placed under a famous …

UKIP Wales: Are they imploding? Deputy chairman quits and criticises party.

UKIP Wales have been rocked this week by the resignation of their deputy chairman James Cole.  To make matters worse, Cole posted a scathing attack of the party as his Facebook status, claiming that UKIP in Wales are 'no longer a party of democracy'.  Here is his post in full. James Cole had an eventful …

Gerard Batten and the ex-BNP member, Gregory Lauder-Frost.

A Facebook link is not much to go on. But on occasion, it can unearth a piece of an ever-clearer puzzle.  We previously covered UKIP MEP Gerard Batten's connections to a fundamentalist group named Christian Concern: in particular, his emails to its founder, Andrea Minichiello Williams who is known for her radical beliefs on abortion (she thinks …

Guest post – Common UKIP Tropes.

If you spend any amount of time discussing UKIP on social media, then you'll very quickly run into some UKIP supporters. Some of these are merely UKIP voters, while some are full UKIP members & activists (or even candidates).  But they all seem to have a few arguments in common. "UKIP are winning elections" Well …

Britain First and EDL attend Farage and UKIP campaign rally at Winter Gardens, Margate.

"Ukip leader Nigel Farage will make a final push for votes at the European election when he leads a campaign rally in Margate today. Security is expected to be tight for the event at the Winter Gardens and organisers anticipate it will attract an audience of several hundred supporters." http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/protest-ahead-of-farage-rally-17408/ Can you see them in those …

Buzzfeed community post about Britain First comes back!

UPDATE 22:19 12/05/14 It's back, with SIX reasons! http://www.buzzfeed.com/francescaweareallc/six-reasons-why-you-should-never-share-britain-fir-oqlk This morning a great community post was shared on Buzzfeed about Five reasons why you should never share Britain First memes ...but later in the day it vanished. This is the google cache link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EwBppkier24J:www.buzzfeed.com/francescaweareallc/five-reasons-why-you-should-never-share-britain-fi-oqlk+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk And here are screenshots of the cache.   We have blogged before …

What have UKIP got against animals and stronger wildlife protections?

What have UKIP MEPs got against animals? Elephants for example? This article from Wildlife News outlines their stance. http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2014/ukip-leads-fight-against-stronger-wildlife-protection/ and it's easy to find out for yourself. Go here http://www.votewatch.eu/ and search 'Combating wildlife crime' and see how UKIP MEPs voted and search by the following filters in following screenshot, hence these results. "The question …

Britain First jump on the Halal and Pizza Express bandwagon.

Earlier this morning we blogged about Britain First and how they are going to 'deploy armoured patrol vehicles to protect UKIP' https://exposingukip.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/britain-first-to-deploy-armoured-patrol-vehicles-to-protect-ukip/ Now they are jumping on the Daily Mail article about halal chicken being used by Pizza Express. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2622052/Pizza-Express-reveal-chicken-use-halal-dont-tell-customers-unless-ask-staff.html Here is their post on Facebook, drumming up support. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=460625150749418&set=a.346633882148546.1073741826.300455573433044&type=1&theater What of course they fail …

Britain First to ‘deploy armoured patrol vehicles’ to ‘protect UKIP’

From the Britain First website: "While no great fans of UKIP, Britain First has hundreds of ex-British Forces street activists and several armoured ex-army Land Rovers and we now put our men and our resources at UKIP’s disposal during the period of election campaigning. We shall continue to fight UKIP for votes at the ballot …