Who Are Ya!? – Britain First

The second in our series looking at some of the bigger names in UK fascism in 2025. We started with the new kid on the block Great British National Protest, so today we're going to checkout the more wizened Britain First (BF).

Led by ex-NF and BNP activist Paul Golding since its founding in 2011, BF tends to push fundamentalist Christianity in much of its messaging. This religious foregrounding isn’t that surprising, given they were secretly funded by former BNP money man and Protestant nutcase Rev. Jim Dowson. Jim was the brains and cash behind the throne in the early days, but he has since left to get involved in increasingly esoteric fascist movements in the UK, Ireland, and eastern europe.

Jim’s public reason for resigning from BF was his disapproval of Paul’s antics, saying BF was "being overrun with racists and extremists." Ostracisation by his fellow travellers is a running theme for Golding who was (somehow) kicked out of the BNP for being too violently racist, oversaw an exodus of supporters after failing to cover-up sexual assault allegations against him, and was recorded admitting to violently abusing his former deputy and (briefly) partner Jayda Fransen.

Paul Golding admitting beating Jayda Fransen and one other woman

Despite all these setbacks and their leader’s repeated criminal convictions, BF have soldiered on to become one of Britain’s longer lasting fascist movements. Presumably, this is because the only way Paul can fund his penchant for pin-striped suits is milking donations from his dwindling pool of supporters.

Britain First can be seen in all their glory in Manchester on Saturday 2nd August

SCARF Statement – In Response to UKIP's March on 8th November

On Saturday 8th November a small band of fascists marched through Sheffield with the support and protection of a massive policing operation. Despite being billed as a national mobilisation, Nick Tenconi’s UKIP barely managed to draw 100 attendees from across the country, dwarfed by around 800 antifascists, the overwhelming majority from Sheffield. With less than two weeks’ notice, people across the city spread the word and turned out, making it clear that fascists are not welcome in our city. Despite outnumbering them 8:1, a feat widely celebrated this week, we were ultimately unable to stop the march. We need to learn from this so that the next time we ask “whose streets?”, the answer rings loud, clear and true. UKIP only marched because the police enabled them. South Yorkshire Police’s last-minute Section 14 order criminalised almost all opposition while granting UKIP a protected route through our city. Hundreds of officers, many drafted in from other forces and armed with bato...

False Flag

HOW TO START A CULTURE WAR? Surely every true-born Englishman has by now downed a pint of Coronation ale, got the ladder out of the shed, and using British-made cable ties, tethered a flag to a lamp post in their street. Or is the whole thing a hoax, a GBeebies fever dream? There are far fewer flags per square mile than even during a lesser football tournament, those that are out seem pretty localised and nothing compared to the spontaneous display of Ukrainian flags at the outset of war. None of this has stopped the entire billionaire funded pundit class (Wootton, Goodwin, Oakeshott, GB News...) stepping up and declaring that the English lion has finally roared. Astroturfing is the art of creating “grassroots” movements from the top, and this flagshagging exercise is such a plastic lawn that it comes with its own set of garden furniture. The main Facebook group has only got 3.7k members! The few photos on it show a max of three flags each. KERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM As an action desig...

UKIP If You Want To – Sheffield Says No To Hate

Contribute to the fundraiser to support arrested anti-racist activists Antifascists gathering near the cathedral – credit @racheloleary_ Saturday saw 800 Sheffielders turn out onto the streets and attempt to block UKIP's hate march. Billed as a “Mass Deportations” march, UKIP mustered under a hundred “patriots”, around a quarter of whom were livestreamers. The day began jubilantly enough at the Cathedral, the original start point for the far right, but now occupied by hundreds of antifascists. However, in the event, facilitated by police violence, the far-right were able to march. The majority of the counter demonstration went down to Waingate, where antifascists attempted to hold the road. There they were kettled by police and herded into Castlegate by a combination of police violence & ushering from (non-SCARF) stewards. This crowd then remained contained by police on Castlegate. A group of forty antifascists managed to break away from the kettle and sto...

SCARF - Sheffield Communities Against Racism & Fascism

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