Far-Right YouTube Stars Plan Takeover of UKIP

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Meechan’s tweet ultimately received slightly more than 10,000 retweets. On June 16, Meechan published a video announcing that he was joining the moribund party “as a free-speech warrior” who could bring in younger voters. Meechan declined to comment to The Daily Beast, saying he would only answer questions if they could be livestreamed on his YouTube channel.

Benjamin, a self-described “classical liberal” who’s gained internet fame for his attacks on liberals and feminists under the handle “Sargon of Akkad,” joined in, saying he was joining UKIP as a “Trumpian protest fuck you to everyone.” And Watson, an employee of Alex Jones’ conspiracy website Infowars, claimed that joining UKIP is “the new counter-culture.”

“Take over UKIP for the banter?” Watson tweeted. “How hard can it be?”

UKIP has struggled in the past to keep far-right figures out of the party, responding with a ban on members of the English Defense League, a group of street protesters who oppose “Islamization.” But UKIP leader Gerard Batten called Islam a “death cult” earlier this year, marking a further drift rightward.

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-youtube-stars-plan-takeover-of-ukip|

And so we herald the long awaited final death knell of UKIP. All the cardies and pearls brigade will head back to the tories and UKIP will consist of a few random wankers from the internet. Happy days.

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1. Milo Yiannopoulos?

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Bang goes any remaining credibility UKIP might have had in speaking about the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-book-deal-cancelled-outrage-child-abuse-comments

Yet more proof that the far right is only interested in opposing child sex abuse when they can use the issue for cheap race baiting.

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2. He "can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight!"

and a couple of days later in Maryland, 5 are dead: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210804798