Meet Derek Wilkes: confused local Ukip candidate

This is Derek Wilkes, who next week will bid to be Ukip's first councillor on Wigan Council.  He is standing in the Douglas ward election on Thursday the 13th. He stood in the same ward for May's local elections, losing by 712 votes.  This entry will mostly focus on Wilkes's social media activity. Firstly however, …

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 …

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 …

In response to ‘Farage on Friday’ in the Daily Express.

  Nigel Farage today wrote for popular little Englander newspaper the Daily Express. He did not quite upsurp Diana from the front page but he managed to insult the working classes after his unfortunate brush with an egg throwing man yesterday.Here is his article Mr Farage, the people who protest against you do not need …

Elections for European Parliament will be held on 22 May 2014 – You can register to vote by 6th May.

Voters will choose 73 MEPs in 11 multi-member regional constituencies. Full details here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27142516 and full list of candidates here: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2014/ You need to be on the electoral register to vote! But don't worry if you're not! It is quick and easy ... You have until May 6th to register. Download a simple form and …