The self-styled “Kent Nationalist Movement” – in fact, supporters of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain led by far-right agitators Harry Hilden and Dean Phillpott – has announced yet another demonstration to be inflicted upon the poor folk of Maidstone.

It will take place on Saturday 13 June, assembling at 1pm at the junction of King Street and Albion Place.

Phillpott, who has now recast himself as “Bexley Borough Nationalist”, and Hilden have been on a joint promotional drive across social media, with the event already circulating among the far right on Facebook and TikTok.

As we have previously reported, Phillpott has a colourful criminal record.

In 2020 he was sentenced to five years for possession of a prohibited firearm and drugs after police on a surveillance operation watched him take delivery of a revolver; and in 2005 he received 15 months for his part in a mob-handed knife attack on two men in Abbey Wood

Sittingbourne’s Kev Oliver and Caley Dowdall, both of whom attended the previous Maidstone demonstration on 25 April as well as the Britain First St George’s Day march in Manchester days earlier, are expected to be back. Daryl Hood has been making noises about travelling up from Torquay.

Publicity for the marcch does not mention any particular political affiliation, but it was notable that the last event the two organised, last month and also in Maidstone, became an unashamed Restore Britain rally.

Nazi-Buddhist

Among those who have already pledged attendance is Chris Mitchell, the self-styled “Nazi-Buddhist” from Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk, whose extensive history of far-right activism spans Patriotic Alternative, the Independent Nationalist Network, and the National Rebirth Party who has most recently joined Restore Britain and been welcomed by Rupert Lowe.

Mitchell has a hate-crime conviction, has celebrated Hitler’s birthday on social media, and has repeatedly denied the Holocaust.

His interest in Kent has acquired a romantic dimension: he is in a recently estabished relationship with Denise Thomas of Maidstone, a neo-pagan practitioner of Gardnerian Wicca.

The theological compatibility of Nazi-Buddhism and Gardnerian Wicca is presumably a matter of ongoing discussion between them.

Also planning to turn out is Donna Louise Clarke of Sittingbourne, who complained about Searchlight’s coverage of the April march and was among those who invaded Swale Borough Council’s offices in December 2025.

She is the daughter of the late Martin Clarke, a notoriously racist former Tory councillor on Swale Council.

Far-right Tesla

Ashford’s Shaun Chaney, meanwhile, is getting scared.

He is apparently worried that his far-right slogan-bedecked Tesla, in which he has taken pole position in recent Kent anti-immigration marches, may be seized under section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 and he is pleading with the marchers not to call a halt where he might be pulled up yet again.

There is, of course, a simple solution to this predicament, but it’s obviously not simple enough for Mr Chaney.