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Hull Nuts – UKIP Continues Its March Towards Irrelevance

On Saturday 28th February, Nick Tenconi brought his dwindling band of fascists to Hull for a pointless stroll around town, which will have done little to halt his group’s precipitous decline. Since picking the UK Independence Party brand out of the bargain bin in early 2025, he has well and truly driven it into the ground in his attempts to rebrand the former Farage vehicle as a Christian Nationalist street movement.

UKIP planned to arrive at 12pm, so local antifascists got up early to take the bandstand in Queen Victoria Square, denying Nick a stage and consigning his rabble to the fringes for the day. UKIP had advertised their demo beginning at the Cenotaph (confusingly described as 40 Paragon Street on their material), but it was clear if any content could be farmed from the day, it would be found a couple of hundred meters back up the road. As a result only a few of the more disciplined Kippers could be found at their muster point, while about 100 fascists hurled insults and abuse at a similar sized crowd of antifascists in the Square while terrible AI generated anti-immigrant ‘music’ blared from a speaker. A far tamer affair than the previous weekend’s Britain First march in Manchester, the two sides largely kept themselves apart, with police only occasionally getting involved push back an over enthusiastic YouTuber or arrest those who reacted to their provocation.

At 1pm, Tenconi and the rest began their so-called march around the outskirts of town, down a few side streets, and round the back of a construction site or two, the occasional lacklustre chant echoing off the walls of abandoned buildings. With their banners facing the wrong way and their feet sticking firmly to the pavement, everyone's favourite 'whose streets?!' call-and-response was met only with the confusion of infrequent passers-by.


The fash crowd numbered less than 200, with Tenconi's ranks clearly bolstered by John Francis' local vanity project Hull Patriotic Protesters


Whose pavement?

The march lasted around half an hour and then returned to the square, where the antifascists had stayed put, holding onto the band-stand and spilling out by now across most of the square. The Kippers lowered their flags and huddled in one corner to hear the closing speeches from Tenconi, ex-copper and 5 Towns Migrant Watch organiser James Crashley, and a particularly ill sounding John Francis. After a few last-ditch attempts to provoke the lefties failed, the live-streamers packed up too, cursing the money wasted on a train fare to a dead-end demo.

On Saturday's evidence, this might have been John Francis last stand, an appropriately inauspicious end

Overall it was a fairly dull affair, with most locals distinctly unimpressed by the dismal trudge. Antifascists did as well as they could in the circumstances, holding space and making sure the hate messages without giving them a galvanising experience. The next stop on the UKIP tour is Dalton-in-Furness on Friday 20th March followed by a a return visit to Liverpool on 21st March.

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