So, welcome to day three of our trip through the fascinating fascist Facebook friends of Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Robert Kenyon.
On Monday we introduced you to Gary Raikes, leader of the avowedly fascist New British Union. Then, yesterday we looked at Alex Eversfield, a neo-nazi with some particularly unsavoury online chums, including convicted far-right terrorists.
By-election clean up
Both were Facebook friends of Mr Kenyon, at least until he scrubbed clean his Facebook page and “mothballed” it shortly before he was announced as the Reform canddate in the by-election.
Today, they are joined by Robert Baggs, who posted on Facebook as Britain MyNation, which was listed amongst Mr Kenyon’s Facebook friends before the pre-by-election clean up.
Based in Calne, Wiltshire, Baggs began an interesting journey through the fascist right in the early 2000s when he joined the British National Party.
He stood as a BNP candidate in the 2007 local elections in Calne contesting both the Calne Abberd Parish and Calne Abberd Ward seats.
He was deeply involved in internal BNP factional disputes, republishing material from the BNP Reform Group attacking Nick Griffin and speculating that Griffin might be an MI5 asset tasked with destroying the party.
From the BNP he moved on to Anne Marie Waters’ short-lived For Britain Movement.
Now, he is a fully-paid up and leading member of the Homeland Party, Kenny Smith’s breakaway from the neo-nazi Patriotic Alternative, and regularly writes articles for the party website.
He appeared on the platform as a featured speaker at the party’s last conference.
Holocaust deniers
When he is not out banging the drum for Homeland, he can be found setting out his stall at the annual conferences of the neo-nazi ‘intellectual’ magazine ‘Heritage and Destiny’, run by those two incorrigible nazi Holocaust-deniers, Mark Cotterill and Peter Rushton.
There, Baggs peddles copies his Britain My Nation newsletter, which specialises in reprinting articles and speeches by former National Socalist Movement, National Front and British National Party fuhrer, John Tyndall.
A Homeland Party footsoldier who is a regular feature on the Heritage and Destiny conference circuit hawking a newsletter devoted to the speeches of a dead neo-nazi führer is, by any reasonable measure, an unusual choice of online companion for a man seeking elected office on behalf of Britain’s self-proclaimed, second-largest party.
Reform UK’s vetting team, presumably, remains unavailable for comment.
