Yesterday we introduced readers to Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, and some of the interesting company he keeps online.
In particular, we pointed out that on his Facebook friends list (now deleted) was Mr Gary Raikes, leader of the unashamedly fascist New British Union.
In fact, this was known to Reform back in 2024, when Kenyon was their candidate in the general election, because we pointed it out at the time.
Today, another ‘friend’ from that scrubbed-clean Facebook page: Mr Alex Eversfield, from Rugby.
Eversfield is a former BNP member who more recently attached himself to Alek Yerbury’s political projects: first the short-lived National Support Detachment then its successor the National Rebirth Party.
Eversfield (far left) is seen in the photo with Yerbury (second from right) and other NSD stalwarts.
Beyond his formal party affiliations, Eversfield has made himself useful to the broader far-right ecosystem in the Midlands by organising informal “nationalist” social events, low-key gatherings which maintain contacts across organisational boundaries.
Extreme tendencies
These events functioned as a convenient meeting ground for some of the most hardline neo-nazi elements in contemporary British fascism: supporters of groups like National Action, proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2016, Patriotic Alternative, and British Movement.
It would be fascinating to know if Mr Kenyon ever attended any of these gatherings.
Most recently, Eversfield has been the target of accusations that he is a ‘lefty infiltrator’ and a ‘grass’.
The source of these claims has been the far-right ‘auditor’ Paul Dunbar of DP Audits, and they appear to arise from a rather nasty personal dispute between the two.
But it led to a physical confrontation between them at a recent far-right rally in Nottingham, an altercation which was broken up by the Ryan Ferguson, the ‘proud nazi’ and National Action supporter.
Interestingly, until it too was cleaned up, Eversfield’s facebook page listed Brogan Stewart and Marco Pitzettu as friends, both of whom were jailed last year for terrorism offences after plotting attacks on mosques and synagogues.
