“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…
Advance UK (a party that earlier recruited ex-EDL thug Tommy Robinson, though it’s now uncertain whether Robinson has defected again, this time to Restore) is yet another sign that supposedly respectable political parties are now prepared to associate with militant activists notorious for racism and criminality.”
#UK #nazis #election
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/the-hardcore-nazi-campaigning-for-advance-uk/
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