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Nigel Farage MP has been photographed posing with a group of far-right activists, including individuals associated with anti-migrant protests and racist social media posts.
The image, leaked to Byline Times, shows the Reform UK leader and GB News presenter posing for pictures alongside extreme anti-migrant activists.
It was posted on Facebook on 18th December by Gareth Stone (below front left), an anti-migrant activist based in Hampshire who has taken part in recent protests supporting far-right activist Tommy Robinson in London.
On January 5 this year Stone’s account posted an image of a girl wearing a necklace made of bacon, with the text: “Grooming gangs fear it” and “can be seen by passing taxis” in a post seemingly targeted at Muslims.
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Stone’s account also posted in May 2017: “I f*cking hate P**is* but love Indians”. And in 2018 it referred to “scum of the earth left-wingers” adding: “I hope rape by a Muslim serves them well.” In 2010 a post by his account said: “[There] should be a public stoneing [sic] of Iranian[s] in manor park I would attend with my bag of rocks.”
Another post in 2017 said of former Conservative MP Louise Mensch: “I hope [the Muslim prophet] Mohammed rapes her”.
The same Facebook account has posted pictures including “Enoch Powell was right” – referring to the Conservative politician booted from the party in 1968 for suggesting “rivers of blood” would flow due to rising immigration.
Another individual pictured in the photograph is Darren ‘Daz’ Brady (front right, with Farage), who came to attention last year for sharing a Pride Flag in the shape of a swastika, as shared by the disgraced former actor Laurence Fox.
Brady was arrested by Hampshire police but later released without charge. On X, Trump ally and billionaire Elon Musk rallied to his defence. Brady has also been a prominent attendee at protests opposing ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ events.
Byline Times previously investigated and reported on an anti-migrant group on the Telegram app, hosted by Brady, which was home to violent far-right comments.
One far-right figure on X who styles himself as ‘Millwall Paul’ posted on the same day: ‘Just having a chat with the next Prime Minister before his [GB News] show’. It is unclear whether it was taken at GB News HQ or if and why the far-right activist had access.
However, a GB News veteran told Byline Times: “That looks like the [GB News] Westminster studio.” The broadcaster, which has lost £100m in three years, did not respond to a request for comment.
In the week before he claims to have met Nigel Farage, ‘Millwall Paul’ posted on X: “It’s disgusting that TV adverts nearly all feature black men with white women which has led to a massive misogynistic crime wave.”
On 27th January this year, he called the war in Gaza the “shittest genocide ever” claiming the population of Gaza had grown. He refers to the capital as “Londonistan” and tweets often dozens of times a day about Muslims.
He also falsely claimed white people are a “minority” in Britain and that “there are no white people” in Oldham. And he frequently trolls Keir Starmer and Labour politicians on social media, claiming of the PM: “You failed white girls raped by you [sic] Muslim mates.”
A week after his apparent meeting with Nigel Farage, ‘Millwall Paul’ wrote to Asian broadcaster Narinder Kaur on X: “There wouldn’t be race riots if you lot would stop murdering white girls”.
Among those also pictured (very back, right) is Jez Stocking, who heads up Rushmoor People First – a Hampshire group anti-racism researchers at Hope Not Hate say has “attracted a broad sweep of far-right groups” including the nazi Patriotic Alternative. Stocking is the least surprising of the bunch as he is Reform UK’s campaign manager for Aldershot.