Paul Golding
| Paul Golding | |
|---|---|
| Leader of Britain First | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Deputy | Jayda Fransen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 January 1982 |
| Political party |
Britain First (2011–present) BNP (until 2011) National Front (previously) |
Paul Anthony Golding (born 25 January 1982) is a British nationalist politician and convicted criminal. He is the leader of Britain First, an organisation described by some journalists as a "fascist paramilitary group", from its founding. In November 2016, he took six months leave from the party to address "important personal family issues".Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader, is acting as leader during his absence.
Although Golding had been expelled from the British National Party after attacking its only ethnic minority councillor, Golding was a BNP Sevenoaks District councillor for Swanley's St. Mary's Ward from 2009 to 2011. He was also a communications officer for the party.
In 2016, he stood as a candidate in the London mayoral election, where he finished in eighth place.
He stood as British National Party candidate for Sevenoaks in the 2010 general election, and received 2.8% of the vote. He stood in the 2014 local elections and as a Britain First lead candidate in the 2014 European Parliamentary election for Wales; the party received 0.9% of the vote. Golding had been a member of the neo-Nazi National Front and once attended a Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday wearing women's underwear on his head.
In May 2015, Golding threatened to bury a pig at the site of proposed mosque in Dudley, mistakenly believing this would contaminate the site and render it unsuitable. During a visit to Northern Ireland that year, Golding and other supporters of Britain First mistook Newtownards Town Hall for a mosque. At the Britain First Annual Conference in November 2015, Golding and his deputy Jayda Fransen led the meeting which agreed a number of policies including banning the media from using the word 'racism' and abolishing the BBC.
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