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South Thanet Brexit Party candidate outlines bizarre EU conspiracy theories involving Zeus, temples, Guy Verhofstadt and gay marriage. Just two days after we exposed bizarre claims from Brexit Party’s Batley & Spen candidate – who appears to believe that extraterrestrials are working with “world Governments” – Nigel Farage’s candidate in South Thanet, Timothy Vince, has had an extraordinary car-crash interview on BBC’s Sunday Politics South East.  Watch as Vince outlines his outlandish theory that the EU is founded on the exploitation of women as proven by a staue of Zeus, before outlining EU conspiracy theories involving the temple of Jupiter, MEP Guy Verhofstadt and gay marriage – eventually descending into a very testy exchange with the show’s presenter. ht...

David Lawrence  Credit: SW/NS In the first instalment of a new series, we look at some of the far right support for the Brexit Party, and ask: what it is about Farage’s ventures that seem to attract so many racists? From his infamous Breaking Point poster to his claims about migrants with HIV, Nigel Farage has historically courted the racist vote. Despite attempting to remake his image with the launch of the Brexit Party, he has recently returned to exploiting anxieties around immigration, for example implying that immigration is the cause of knife and drug crime in Watford ahead of his rally in October. It may be unsurprising, then, that a long line of racism scandals have plagued Farage’s new party throughout its short history, not least whe...

Leading Brexit Party figures have retweeted far-right figures numerous times, including a neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorists and virulent misogynists. We have detailed the links between the Brexit Party and InfoWars conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson, who has been retweeted by Nigel Farage, Farage’s press aide Dan Jukes, and Michael Heaver MEP a staggering combined total of 877 times (695 of them Heaver).  HOPE not hate can now reveal numerous further instances of top Brexit Party officials retweeting extremists, conspiracy theorists and racists, many of which have since been deleted. This includes: The neo-Nazi Mark CollettAlt-right racists Stefan Molyneux, Faith Goldy, Tara McCarthy and Laura TowlerFar-right conspiracy...

HOPE not hate can reveal that Nigel Farage has appeared in a Bilderberg conspiracy theory documentary alongside extreme figures from the notorious LaRouche movement. Despite insisting that he has “never been a conspiracy theorist”, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has appeared in the online documentary Bilderberg: The Movie (2014) alongside a number of conspiracy theorists from the notorious LaRouche movement.  The spurious film, written and presented by Daniel Estulin, focuses on the Bilderberg conference, an annual meeting of politicians and leaders in industry, finance, academia and the media, which conspiracy theorists have long alleged to be secretly directing the course of world events.  The documentary makes a number of wild claims about ...

By Simon Murdoch Nigel Farage’s new outfit, The Brexit Party, comfortably won the European Elections in May, setting off a political earthquake. They have dropped off the news agenda since the elevation of Boris Johnson to Prime Minister, but The Brexit Party surge in the polls shows no sign of being a flash in the pan. Their role could be significant in a looming General Election, and it is possible that the party could have MPs in the next parliament.There’s many reasons to be concerned about Farage’s new project, not least its far-right ties and members’ own extreme actions. In March 2019 an exposé by my colleague David Lawrence of then-leader Catherine Blaiklock’s racist social media activity led to her resignation and our subsequent investigations have reveal...

INTRODUCTION Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The Brexit Party comfortably won the European Elections in May, setting off a huge political earthquake. They have dropped off the news agenda since the elevation of Boris Johnson to Prime Minister, but the Brexit Party surge in the polls shows no sign of being a flash in the pan. Their role could be significant in a looming General Election, and it is possible that the party could have MPs in the next parliament. But who are the Brexit party, and how worried should we be? The threat from this party is very real. Nigel Farage is dangerous, and has used racism and Islamophobia to stir up division. Farage’s anti-migrant “Breaking Point” poster in the EU referendum of 2016 was condemned as “vile” by people from across the political spectr...

BIG TECH CONFIRMS THAT POLITICIANS DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES By Melissa Ryan This week Facebook and YouTube both confirmed that politicians using their platforms won’t be held to the same community guidelines as the vast majority of their users. This echos a similar policy from Twitter which won’t remove content from world leaders, though Twitter has made one notable exception. But if I’m reading this correctly, Facebook and YouTube’s policies are broader than Twitter’s and I have a lot of questions. Who qualifies as a politician? Do you have to be an elected official or does this apply to candidates as well? Buzzfeed actually asked Facebook to define ‘politician’ for their purposes and Facebook declined. How tech platforms defin...

Register with your social accountor click here to log inI would like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts, by email The Conservative Party have been branded as "out of touch" after one of their parliamentary candidates suggested people using food banks struggle with being able to manage their budget. Darren Henry, who is running to be the MP for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, made the comments during a hustings event in Beeston. It comes after Tory candidate Sally-Ann Hart also came under fire for saying some people with learning disabilities "don't understand money". Mr Henry told voters on Friday night: "When they go down to the food bank, what they struggle with is maybe being able to manage their budge...