Paul Weston

Paul Martin Laurence Weston (born 1965) is a British far-right politician and blogger.

Weston joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2010 and stood as a parliamentary candidate for Cities of London and Westminster. In 2011, Weston left UKIP and joined the now-defunct British Freedom Party with members of the English Defence League (EDL) and former members of the British National Party (BNP). From 2013, he was the chairman of Liberty GB before the party was dissolved in December 2017; he recommended that its members join For Britain. He was the leader of Pegida UK in 2016.

For Liberty GB, Weston was a candidate for South East England in the 2014 European election and for Luton South in the 2015 general election. He obtained 158 votes (0.4%).

Weston is the former President of the English branch of the International Free Press Society, which was founded in 2009. His writings have frequently been featured on the blog Gates of Vienna.

First partisan forays When interviewed in 2010 as a member of UKIP, Weston described himself as a "natural Conservative" and described immigration as the "ethnic cleansing of the English".

Soon after leaving UKIP, in 2011 Weston became the chairman of the British Freedom Party (BFP) the same year after he had been asked to do so by the activists who had broken away from the BNP in October 2010 to found a new party. As chairman of the BFP, Weston attended an international counter-jihad conference in September 2011. This was in the midst of a crisis within the BNP and Weston held meetings with Andrew Brons, an MEP, and longstanding figure on the far-right, who was vying for the leadership of the party. Ultimately, Weston left the BFP saying, "I joined the British Freedom Party in late 2011, but became disillusioned with the direction it was taking, over which I had little control." Searchlight speculated that Weston let the party's registration lapse because Jim Dowson of Britain First had initiated legal action against the BFP for defamation over claims made against Britain First's leadership on the BFP website. Gable ranked the group alongside the British Democratic Party, Britain First and the National Front. He has made a video in which he says "I am a racist". At the time, Buckby was a member of the BNP and received support from Nick Griffin after he and his group were prevented from advertising themselves at the freshers' fair by anti-fascist demonstrators. Buckby was later invited to speak at the Alliance of European National Movements and introduced by Griffin.

At the 2015 general election, Weston contested Luton South for Liberty GB and polled 158 votes (0.4%).

Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Hayes responded to the media coverage on the Hampshire Police and Crime Commission website, saying it was "wrongly suggested that Mr Weston was arrested for reciting passages written by Winston Churchill [...] he was not welcome outside the Winchester Guildhall, the Police were called and he was asked to move on." The statement added that he was "not prepared to move on and was arrested for this reason."

In 2016, Weston participated in a "counterjihad" panel at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the United States, sponsored by Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy.

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0.4 He said in 2013 that white genocide was occurring in Britain.

Personal life Weston's ex-wife is Romanian; they met in Romania.