‘Clean skin’ neo-Nazis to infiltrate Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

NOTE: This article was published on 10 September 2024Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett has revealed a scheme for nazi sympathisers with no public record of involvement in extremist groups to infiltrate Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Writing in the current issue of the neo-Nazi ‘intellectual’ magazine ‘Heritage and Destiny’, Collett has set out his grand design…

NOTE: This article was published on 10 September 2024

Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett has revealed a scheme for nazi sympathisers with no public record of involvement in extremist groups to infiltrate Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Writing in the current issue of the neo-Nazi ‘intellectual’ magazine ‘Heritage and Destiny’, Collett has set out his grand design for the future of British ‘ethno-nationalism’.  Much of this hinges around raising money to buy land and property to set up white nationalist communities, but he also reveals an ‘entryist’ plan targeting Reform UK, using ‘clean skin’ nazi activists.

He says:

“Those of us who are not known, who have a clean public image and who wish to get elected to high office should join Reform UK, help to steer that party from within and put themselves forward as parliamentary candidates. Having a number of officials and candidates within Reform UK, and potentially having an ethno-nationalist elected to parliament under the Reform UK banner would obviously be advantageous in a number of ways, not least in bringing Farage and his party closer to our positions….

“So, in a very real sense, a dedicated group of ethno-nationalists who have not been previously politically exposed could join Reform UK and do great things – effectively turning them into a vehicle for something better and more robust”.

Although his group ran candidates in the General Election, under the banner of (and with funding from) the English Democrats, Collett now declares that for the foreseeable future involvement in elections, especially parliamentary elections, will be “a waste of time, money and resources”.

The “600lb gorilla in the room”, he says, is Reform UK which completely dominates the far-right electoral scene. But it is precisly Reform UK’s electoral weight that makes it an attractive target for entryism. Going up against Farage, argues Collett, would mean far right candidates being humiliated in much the same way as Britain First was in the London mayoral elections – beaten by joke candidate Count Binface.

Collett claims that Britain First spent £40,000 on the campaign, leaving the party completely broke. This is likely to be the real reason that BF did not put up any candidates in the general election, rather than just, in the words of leader Paul Golding, “keeping our heads down”.

Collett’s answer, for those who are known to be nazi activists, is to concentrate on raising funds to buy land and property and establish white nationalist communities. Even on the far right this is likely to be recognised as yet another shameless grift from one of the nazi movement’s most shameless grifters.

Formed by Collett in 2019, PA has regularly been linked with right wing terrorist activities: a number of members and sympathisers have been jailed for terror offences in recent years and Collett himself was linked to the now-banned terror group National Action. Splits in PA last year led to the formation of Alek Yerbury’s National Rebirth Party and Kenny Smith’s Homeland Party.

Pictures: PA leader Mark Collett adddresses last year’s Heritage & Destiny conference, and the current issue of H&D.


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