Make Britain Great Again” have condemned the actions of third parties in the store.
See this video and this other video
Antifa posts are inaccurate. Elizabeth Jones was not involved in the visit by UKIP members and some third parties to a communist bookstore. She was up the road talking to a guy about taxation legislation. Sharon Klaff was not there. Edward Howard was not there.
An idiot called Mark “Buska” Martin, who I believe falsely claims to be a UKIP member, (not to be mistaken for Martin Costello) did ruin everything:
- This Mark Martin fool whipped people up, making some stupid, irritating, absurd remarks, which do not reflect our beliefs, and called for the ripping of a free anti-Tommy Robinson banner.
- In so doing, he hindered a calm departure from the store, causing disrespect to private property.
- He also had the absolutely incredible lack of judgement to upload such a video, implicating his own self, and to delay in removing it despite my insistence.
- All of the Make Britain Great Again committee greatly regret collaborating with this absolute imbecile and have, despite his protest and disappointment, even anger, politely informed him of such.
- There were no “masked attackers” – such is very obvious from footage.
- There was absolutely no damage to any books, or the shop in general.
- Martin Costello left the shop almost immediately.
- Nash-Jones visibly in the video was trying to defuse the situation.
A third party YouTuber, Mark Martins, who isn’t part of MBGA though he claims to be UKIP, and whom no party suspended, suggested that another filmmaker with a Trump mask and others visit the communist bookstore for a prank video, in the style of a Vine, etc.. They wanted to shout Trump for a few seconds and leave. A good humoured, calm, spontaneous attempt to make a prank video, of a style popular on YouTube, and of new social media recruits to the UKIP party. There was no malicious intent. This moron Mark Martin hindered a calm departure from the store, causing disrespect to private property.
Considering that last week anti-Semites threatened repeatedly to kill us because we reject fascism, Momentum’s 1930s reference is very inappropriate (watch this video). Why didn’t they report on this threat by anti-Semites to kill me? Did that not serve their Marxist agenda? They attack “conservatives” such as ourselves, while they ignore death threats we receive from the actual far-right.
This sorry episode has done a lot of damage to the cause, it proves they are not adult enough to be trusted to represent the party in any way, shape or form. As for the latest video presentations from the so called youth wing from Edward Howard, the very fact that you allow him to spout his incoherent ramblings and actually upload them is beyond idiotic. Luke NJ is the chairman of his merry little band so in my eyes he carries the collective responsibility for this whole debacle. High time this cosy little group of tools were shut down for the good of the cause. Shame on you all!
Please dont let the Commies dominate the headlines. Eg the unequal prominence given to the Liz Jones accusation and refutation.
Please social media guys help us, not waste Police time on demos.
We need your help ; in fact the help of all good men /women etc.
It sounds like a group of people were in a pub, had a few beers, and decided to crash a bookstore. Fail to plan, or plan to fail.
I am struggling here as I hold Luke and Martin in high regard and have spoken with them a number of times. I like them enormously.
This has been a cock-up. Unfortunately, in the Bookmarks crowd were a couple of notorious EDL people, with horrific backgrounds and others who are well known to not only the police but by the intelligence teams of HnH and Momentum. There was a young man with severe autism, easily led. Vunerable. A number have criminal records. The whole thing was a disaster.
There can be no deflection of blame to third parties. No smart editing. Leaders have to lead and take the whacks when it goes wrong. It has gone wrong.
But it does not have to be the end.
There has to be an unconditional apology to the Bookmarks team and this needs to be published.
I fear that otherwise the storm that will surely come on Saturday after the demo at Bookmarks ( about 2000 strong IMHO including powerful political and media figures ) will be extremely damaging to the political careers of the three main UKIP members involved.
There is no point rabbiting on about MSM / Leftie conspiracy theories , bull s**t about ‘Cultural Marxists’ ‘Communists’ or other such nonsense.
Please apologise guys and live to fight another day.
As President Johnson once said ” A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road, but their ain’t no daylight in Vietnam ‘
Don’t make Bookmarks your Vietnam.
Your friend and ally.
K
I agree – it’s time for all concerned, but especially Luke and Martin, to apologise publicly – not just to the store owner but also to Gerard and the Party.
Remember the thing about holes and what to do when one is in one – and remember: Party before ego!
Does ukip have anintelligence team.? Do we want one ? Is it like other intelligence teams and sat in front of computers.? Good Grief !
Dear Luke,
Thank you for putting your neck on the line.
At the same time, your neck was free a few days ago but you’ve chosen to put it back on the line by keeping the story moving.
Slip quietly away and put it down to experience.
As soon as it started getting loud and the shopkeeper started looking annoyed, it was time to leave. No messing about. No negotiating. No trying to calm anyone down. Just get out. I am astonished that the police weren’t called. Luke showed very poor judgement and is to blame because for the whole thing because although Luke stayed calm throughout, he invited those idiots to follow him into to shop and, when he saw that they were causing disruption, Luke did not immediately leave. If Luke had left, the idiots would have followed him like sheep and the incident would have been over in seconds.
Relieved to hear the background. Luke is very brave to try to pull off ‘live’ protests, things can and do go wrong sometimes. A lot of the time Luke puts his neck on the line, confronting people in the street to get good footage, most of the time it’s valuable and unique. Quizzing students why they are at protests, only to discover the have no flipping idea, is highly amusing and informative. Don’t be downhearted Luke, you’re learning useful skills, don’t stop trying!
Agree. Like NJ does a lot for our party. He is to be commended for all his efforts.