The motto of the UK First Party is "Country before self" - a rallying call for fascists everywhere, very Musollini-esque.Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or race.Now, it's important not to confuse the UK First Party with the British First Party, which is a different British fascist party, or the England First Party which appears to have borrowed half of its manifesto from Mein Kampf.
The UK First Party was co-founded by Peter Cole, the now ex-chairman of the UKIP Fenland branch which he dissolved when he set up his new party. Peter Cole has been in open revolt against Nigel Farage and the NEC for some time now.
The UK First Party blog gives an insight into what we can expect from them in the future. They are making much of the fact that Peter Cole is Tom Wise MEP's secretary and the fact that both Tom Wise and Ashley Mote might not think they're complete fruitcakes. According to the blog, Wise and Mote are both UKIP MEPs. They may have been elected as UKIP MEPs but they were both expelled from the party - Mote because he was charged with fraud and is currently on police bail and Wise because he was accused of fraud by the EU (over his secretarial expenses, incidently).
So while they are telling readers that they have the secretary of a UKIP MEP in their party and two UKIP MEPs that might support them, the truth is that two independent MEPs - one of which is a convicted fraudster - haven't laughed at them and the secretary of one of those independent MEPs is a founder of their party. Not exactly the coup they make it out to be!
The official leader of the UK First Party is Rebecca Faye Hilman and its treasurer is Tamsin Ruth Bowden and the registered address - 18 Falconers Mews in Swindon - is someone's house on a new housing development. The UK First Party doesn't have any registered emblems and bizarrely, they've declared themselves not to be a small party. Where they're going to find 10 grand to field a candidate in an EU election is anyone's guess.
The UK First Party has been compared to Veritas, perhaps a little unkindly. Veritas is, after all, still limping along in relative obscurity 4 years after Robert Kiljoy-Slick started it all off.
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Red, White and Blue, eh?
Whodathunk it.
Still, looks to be good sport watching them all bicker.
Is GLW admitting he's the Mandelson of this latest crackpot group?
So Peter Cole wasn't a fascist when he was chairman of his UKIP branch, until a week or so ago, but suddenly is now. How odd.
So Peter Cole wasn't a fascist when he was chairman of his UKIP branch, until a week or so ago, but suddenly is now.
I didn't say Cole was a fascist, I said that the party's motto is a fascist ideal, which it is. I don't know Cole so I don't know if he's a fascist and if he is, whether he was when he was a UKIP branch chairman.
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