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By Tubby Isaacs
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Youngian wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 5:16 pm
Is being punished for life for your mistakes a progressive position? There’s plenty of anti-racist activists previously involved in fascist groups before repenting. Admittedly signing up to be a councillor for a Farage tribute act Tory Party is an odd route to redemption.
There was an IRA member who became a Tory councillor, I recall. I guess that's a special case because of the peace process.

Generally, I would expect this chap to get a life ban. There's a lot of it, over a long period.
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By Oboogie
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 5:37 pm
Youngian wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 5:16 pm
Is being punished for life for your mistakes a progressive position? There’s plenty of anti-racist activists previously involved in fascist groups before repenting. Admittedly signing up to be a councillor for a Farage tribute act Tory Party is an odd route to redemption.
There was an IRA member who became a Tory councillor, I recall. I guess that's a special case because of the peace process.

Generally, I would expect this chap to get a life ban. There's a lot of it, over a long period.
He's not some foot soldier seduced into a far-right group when he was a misguided teenager, he was trying to set up his own explicitly Nazi Party - not the EDL, not even the BNP, actual Hitler-was-right Nazis.
A teacher or a police officer holding such views would face a life-long ban, I have no issue with politicians being treated the same.
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By Oboogie
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 8:11 pm Yep.

And his main thing now seems to be posting unpleasant AI images of politicians not in Reform or the Tories. That alone ought to have raised red flags.
Agreed.
Although he does actually have a go at Reform, only this morning I saw one portraying them as Dad's Army, it wasn't complimentary.
Or funny.
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By Dalem Lake
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Oboogie wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2026 12:48 am To further understanding of Bonehill's many and various crimes, here's a link to the judges sentencing remarks from his 2016 trial, it makes astonishing and revolting reading.
There is no evidence beyond Bonehill's word that his views have changed.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl ... -12-16.pdf
Sheesh. Can just imagine what this guy's behaviour would have escalated to if he hadn't been sent down.
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