A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform UK’s hopes of recovering a crucial county council seat in a by-election When we last reported on the tangled tale of Graeme Sergeant, the former BNP organiser behind the “Restore UK Kent)” Facebook group, he […]
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Ex‑BNP organiser causes far‑right chaos in Kent
A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from one newly-launched party to another and back again, leaving a trail of confusion and recriminations in his wake. Graeme William Sergeant, a retired plumber and Millwall supporter from Herne Bay, is a onetime BNP activist […]
Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online interview that Gorton & Denton candidate Nick Buckley has given to the far‑right National Housing Party. Despite its almost whimsical name, the organisation’s ideological lineage is unmistakably fascist. It emerged in the early 2020s under […]
The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton & Denton by-election. Steve Smith, best known as organiser of Burnley BNP during the early 2000s, was photographed out on the campaign trail for the Advance candidate last weekend, and Buckley himself happily posted this photo […]
Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting on the factional tensions simmering beneath the right‑populist realignment, and suggest that the attempted consolidation […]
Will Rupert Lowe ‘Unite the Right’?
The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to avoid it. From the wreckage of the BNP through the serial reinventions of UKIP and the endless splintering of various fascist micro‑parties, the movement has been defined less by ideological coherence than by personal fiefdoms, […]
Advance UK’s election campaign hit by backlash over candidate’s sexist posts
Advance UK’s campaign in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been seriously set back after a wave of anger, including from within its own ranks, over misogynistic tweets posted by its candidate, Nick Buckley. The posts, published by Searchlight last night and viewed thousands of times today, contained abusive and degrading remarks about women, particularly […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate: ‘Many young British women are whores’
Nick Buckley, the Advance UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, has posted a series of social media messages where he makes hugely insulting and derogatory claims about women. In May 2025, Buckley wrote on X: “Many British young women are whores but don’t realise they are.” In the same post, he claimed that […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate is Nick Griffin fanboy
Advance UK’s candidate in the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, Nick Buckley, is an unashamed and self -confessed admirer of former BNP leader Nick Griffin, one of the UK’s leading fascists and Holocaust deniers. Buckley hosts a YouTube podcast called Nick Talks. A week ago, Nick Griffin was his guest, interviewed at length. But this […]
Advance UK’s big day out at the races…
Only last month Ben Habib’s Advance UK had plans for a launch event in Wales rather spoiled when the venue cancelled the booking. So they’re trying again. They are advertising a launch meeting in South Wales 0n 29 November. But the venue is not yet being disclosed. So perhaps we can help. It’s being held […]
Newcastle: Advance opens the door to ‘Tommy Robinson’ and Tenconi is seen off
Newcastle had more than its fair share of far-right wingers turning up at the weekend, with Ben Habib’s Advance UK holding its launch conference in the city, and Nick Tenconi holding a demonstration with his UKIP goon squad. Ben Habib had planned a glitzy event to launch his Advance UK party, which has been endorsed […]
Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times
There is just one major takeaway from yesterday’s Tommy Robinson-organised ‘Free Speech’ festival in London – 110,000 supporters of a far-right, racist agitator marched through London in the biggest public demonstration of fascism ever seen in this country. Just think how often we refer back proudly to over 100,000 people coming out to support the […]
Tommy Robinson joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
Tommy Robinson has announced that he is joining Ben Habib’s Advance UK party, and is calling on his followers to do the same. The move was announced in a video which Robinson posted yesterday. It was filmed in central London but shows signs of having been recorded before Robinson fled the country after an assault […]
‘Tommy Robinson’ hints at link up with Habib’s Advance UK
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few days ago we suggested that Tommy Robinson had given up the idea of a hook up with UKIP and might be seeking to link up with Ben Habib’s Advance UK instead. And today Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has signalled that this might indeed be […]