Paul Weston

Paul Weston is a British counterjihad activist.

Weston, a former UK Independence Party parliamentary candidate, was chairman of the far-right British Freedom Party from November 2011 until he was replaced by the former EDL deputy leader Kevin Carroll in early January 2013.

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'.

Weston is standing in the 2015 general election against Labour Luton South MP Gavin Shuker, who has described him as 'racist'.

Weston, who is from Dorset, has described Luton as 'a hotbed of violent [Islamic] extremism' and is calling to 'remove the "supremacist" ideology of Islam from Britain', along with the minarets.

Activities

Arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment

In 2014 Weston was arrested by Hampshire Constabulary after complaints from members of the public about his reading of a Winston Churchill quote describing Islam as “militant” and “retrograde” through a megaphone outside Winchester’s Guildhall.

The Southern Daily Echo reported that Weston had addressed passers-by with an excerpt from former Prime Minister Churchill’s book The River War, written in 1899 while he was a British army officer in the Sudan.

Left UKIP for being 'too soft on Islam'

Weston stood as the UKIP parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Cities of London & Westminster in the 2010 general election, gaining 664 votes.

Weston later left UKIP, claiming that after Nigel Farage replaced Lord Pearson as leader the party had gone soft on Islam.

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. 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."

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.

Criticism

Liberal Democrat candidate Antony Hook has described Liberty GB as holding “unpleasant and deeply Islamophobic” views.

Affiliations

Conferences

• Counterjihad Brussels 2007
• Counterjihad Vienna 2008
• Counterjihad London 2011

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.