Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has attended a demonstration organised by a neo-Nazi party and posted a picture of himself with the founder of a terror organisation.
Jenrick went to a gathering hosted by the Homeland Party in Epping on Sunday night. Callum Barker, a neo-Nazi member of Homeland who has a history of supporting racism and terrorism, spoke at the event.
Jenrick later posted images of himself with demonstrators, which included Eddy Butler, one of the founders of the neo-Nazi terror gang Combat 18. The numerals in Combat 18 refer to the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, referencing the name of Adolf Hitler.
After the demonstration, Butler posted a photograph of himself standing directly behind Jenrick with the text, “At the Bell Hotel, riding shotgun for Robert Jenrick.”
The Epping Says No Facebook page, which is run entirely by Callum Barker, was used to coordinate the protest.
According to police, the demonstration began outside the Bell Hotel at 4 pm. Residents noted that Jenrick was present between approximately 5 pm and 6 pm, when he spoke to demonstrators and posed for photos.
Shortly afterwards, Jenrick posted a photograph showing him talking to a woman holding up a t-shirt with the words “Send them home” on it, while former Nazi terror chief Eddy Butler is pictured in the background. Jenrick’s post included the text, “Great to be with peaceful, patriotic protestors in Epping today.”
At 6.10 pm, the protesters marched into the centre of Epping, where Barker addressed the participants. It is unclear whether Jenrick joined the demonstration.
During his address, Barker claimed, “In Epping, we’ve been the spearhead of these protests. We’ve been leading the way and leading the charge.” The demonstrators responded by singing, “Callum is a hero! Callum is a hero!”
The involvement of Barker is known to the local Conservative Party, with leading local Tory Holly Whitbread previously criticising Reform councillor Jaymey McIvor for joining one of the earlier Sunday demonstrations and “standing next to a neo-Nazi”. Whitbread, who is a councillor and cabinet member on Essex County Council for Epping and Theydon Bois, said, “My grandad and my grandad’s generation fought in a war against these people.” She continued, “These people do not talk for Britain. They’re not British values. I think, quite frankly, anyone who stands side with side with them should hang their heads in shame. It’s disgraceful.”
Barker has posted images that reference the numerical code “1488”. This code was invented by the US neo-Nazi terrorist David Lane, who was involved in the killing of a Jewish radio host in 1984. The “88” denotes the phrase “Heil Hitler”, because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. The “14” refers to 14 words: “We must secure a future for the white race and also for white children.”
Barker’s centrality to the organisation of the demonstrations became well known after Stand Exposed It Up To Racism in late July. Reporters from The Times went to the demonstrations in Epping to confront Barker on his involvement in Homeland, and the video of this interaction was later publicised by the newspaper.
Barker was also questioned over images he had posted online of himself sporting a leather mask and holding up the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, a US terrorist who killed three people during a 17-year reign of terror.
Butler helped to establish Combat 18 as the security detail of the British National Party in the early 1990s. However, he was subsequently allegedly stabbed by Combat 18 members during an internal feud inside the BNP.
Butler was closely associated with a clique of senior figures in the BNP who organised around The Patriot, an internal magazine. The editor of The Patriot was Nazi terrorist Tony Lecomber, who was injured in 1986 while trying to use a nail bomb. Police subsequently recovered two grenades and seven petrol bombs from his house. He was jailed for three years, but had to go back to prison for an attack on a Jewish schoolteacher in 1991.
Butler went on to be National Elections Officer for the BNP after leading the party’s “Rights for Whites” campaign in 1993, which saw it win a council seat on the Isle of Dogs.
In January 2025, the government designated Combat 18 as an alias of the Blood & Honour group, saying there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect it of “being involved in terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose and making funds available for the purposes of its terrorist activities”.
Combat 18 has a lengthy history of involvement in murders and terror. Combat 18 leader Charlie Sargeant was convicted of the murder of Christopher Castle in Harlow in 1997. The organisation also has connections to the 1999 London nail-bombing attacks and the assassination of German politician Walter Lübcke in 2019.
The group uses the Totenkopf – the skull symbol associated with Hitler’s SS – as its logo.
Jenrick’s participation in the protest lends legitimacy to an expanding fascist movement that targets refugees in the South East and nationwide.
Numerous participants in Sunday’s Epping demonstration had been at a protest earlier in the day in Canary Wharf, where men in balaclavas fought with police outside asylum-seeker accommodation at the Britannia Hotel.
The demonstrators chanted “Free Channay”, a reference to a woman who was arrested outside the hotel earlier in the week on suspicion of threatening a security guard and possession of a meat cleaver.
The men then blocked a bridge in Canary Wharf and chanted “Spartans”, the name of a group of masked men who tried to force entry to migrant hotels and put English flags on lampposts under the cover of darkness in East London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
During the protest in Epping, several men also chanted “Spartans”, indicating they had been at both demonstrations that day.
The Epping demonstration was also attended by Liam Gillett – also known as Liam Tuffs – a far-right podcaster and close friend of Tommy Robinson. Gillett is the boss of a security firm and organises security teams for Tommy Robinson’s events.
Labour is ruining this country; thus, we need strong leadership and some sort of reform in the UK to stop this rot.
Starmer and his cronies are so busy tarting themselves up with freebies that they don’t have time for the good British people of England, and Starmer has no intention of ‘smashing the gangs.’ And it seems like it’s all planned – it’s not random.
We are being invaded purposely with our government’s full knowledge!
We don’t want Nazis in this country, of course, we don’t, but something has to give because this is not our country anymore. We should be worried about the danger of illegal migrants to our children, but that does not make us racist; it just makes us fearful.
We most definitely do not want our kids to live next door to men from a developing nation who entered the UK illegally and about whom we know very little.
In the UK, people are naturally afraid of strangers. We are only concerned about our kids, and with good reason. It’s not a phobia. Still, our lives are being profoundly impacted by these strangers, and the crossing of these migrants in the English Channel is a national security emergency.
This issue isn’t about migration. It’s about sexual violence, paedophilia, patriarchy and systematic police failures.
There’s nothing racist about caring for one’s family.
Angela Rayner said that she wanted to see communities coming together. The problem is that people who come to our land never want to integrate into the British way of life, and now everyone has to bend to their dogma.
Rayner is way out of depth. The same can be said of Starmer because he has now bitten off more than he can chew, and both are presently like wide-eyed rabbits in the headlights.
Sadly, our voices are in the wilderness, and it’s likely to remain that way for some time to come.
Whenever Rayner is asked a straightforward question about mass illegal immigration, her reply – there wasn’t one. She was questioned about decent ordinary members of the public being extremely concerned about mass immigration – her reply – there wasn’t one.
Like all politicians, when a question is asked, they never give an answer. I don’t condone the way some of these protests are carried out, but how else are the government going to take notice of how the British People are feeling at the moment? The vast majority of us are fed up with the way things are going. I’m not at all racist, and I believe that many ethnic British People are also fed up. The Labour government have got it all wrong, again. This time they only got in because the majority wanted rid of the lacklustre Tories. The 5 minutes they have been in power has shown their true colours. If I were 40 years younger, I would stick two fingers up at this country and immigrate to one of the few Commonwealth countries we’ve got left. This Country, of ours, has unfortunately gone to the dogs.
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 