Paul Weston
Paul Weston is a British counterjihad activist.[1]
Weston, a former UK Independence Party parliamentary candidate, was chairman of the far-right British Freedom Party from November 2011[2] until he was replaced by the former EDL deputy leader Kevin Carroll in early January 2013.[3]
He is now the chairman of Liberty GB, which describes itself as 'a patriotic counter-jihad party for Christian civilisation, Western rights and freedoms, British culture, animal welfare and capitalism'. [4]
Weston is standing in the 2015 general election against Labour Luton South MP Gavin Shuker. Shuker has branded Weston 'racist'. Weston, who is originally from Dorset, has described Luton as 'a hotbed of [Islamic] extremism'.
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Activities
Arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment
UKIP candidate
Weston stood as the UKIP parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Cities of London & Westminster in the 2010 general election, gaining 664 votes.[5]
Weston later left UKIP, claiming that after Nigel Farage replaced Lord Pearson as leader the party had gone soft on Islam. [6]
Israel visit with far right European party leaders
In December 2010, Weston visited Israel with a counterjihad delegation which included "Filip de Winter of the Vlaams Belang; Heinz Christian Strache of FPO and Rene Stadtkewitz, leader of the Geert Wilders inspired and recently formed German Freedom Party, or Die Freiheit", according to Weston.[7] Haaretz columnist Adar Primor, described the visit as part of "the very unholy alliance between figures on Israel's right and extreme nationalists and even anti-Semites in Europe that is gaining momentum in the Holy Land."[8]
Views
Following the Utoeya massacre in Norway, Weston attacked the BBC in an article which appeared on the English Defence League website, writing:
- have written before that a future religious civil-war will be preceded by tit-for-tat small scale atrocities and now we have seen the start. By shamefully closing down a desperately needed debate in order to pursue perverse and politically driven objectives, Paxman, the BBC and the entire political liberal/left have ensured the inevitability of potential carnage and thus have the blood of future innocents on their hands alongside those of the inevitable psychopathic perpetrator.[9]
Affiliations
Conferences
Publications
Gates of Vienna posts
- The Week Britain Died, Gates of Vienna, 22 January 2007.
- Britain's Dystopian School Children, Gates of Vienna, 26 January 2007.
- Questioning the Sanity of Liberals, Gates of Vienna, 2 February 2007.
- Multiculturalism — Merits and Debits, 1 March 2007.
- Is European Civil War Inevitable by 2025?, 31 March 2007.
- Is European Civil War Inevitable By 2025? - Part Two, 12 April 2007.
EDL website posts
- The BBC, Breivik, The EDL and Islam, English Defence League, 30 July 2011.
Contact
- Blogger Paul Weston
- 4Freedoms Paul Weston's Page
External Resources
- Matthew Carr, Far right blames BBC for ignoring Breivik’s beliefs, The First Post, 3 August 2011.
Notes
- ↑ Paul Weston, Ethnically Cleansing the English, Gates of Vienna, 12 March 2010.
- ↑ New Executive Council Announced, British Freedom Party, 9 November 2011
- ↑ Kevin Carroll becomes British Freedom chairman BritishFreedom.org (link now dead)
- ↑ Liberty GB Facebook page, accessed 10 November 2014
- ↑ Candidate: Paul Weston, UK Political Database, telegraph.co.uk, accessed 29 June 2010.
- ↑ Bob Pitt, Paul Weston arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment, Islamophobia Watch, April 28, 2014, accessed 20 January 2015
- ↑ Paul Weston, The Metaphorical Front Line of Islam, Gates of Vienna, 5 December 2010.
- ↑ Adar Primor, The unholy alliance between Israel's Right and Europe's anti-Semites, Haaretz, 12 December 2010.
- ↑ Paul Weston, The BBC, Breivik, The EDL and Islam, English Defence League, 30 July 2011.
