Nick Tenconi, seen outside the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea, Portsmouth, performing a Nazi salute.
Who Is Nick Tesconi?
Thanks to Hope Not Hate we can ascertain who this far-right ideologue is.
‘Turning Point UK (TPUK) is the British offshoot of the influential American far-right group Turning Point USA. TPUK launched in 2019 with some fanfare and much derision. The group was intended to emulate the success of its American parent group in mobilising young conservatives on college campuses, but failed to create any organic presence in universities here and had essentially been moribund for some time.
However, following the addition of COO Nick Tenconi (now UKIP leader) to the group, it appears to be in the process of reinventing itself as a street-protest organisation, and was a visible presence in the demonstrations against drag queen storytelling sessions in 2022 and 2023. These included holding regular and increasingly confrontational demonstrations outside the Honor Oak pub in Lewisham, many featuring Laurence Fox as a guest speaker and all of which were vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters.
In November 2023, the group was involved in the furore surrounding Remembrance weekend. TPUK helped to organise a demonstration based on fears that pro-Palestine protesters would desecrate the Cenotaph but which actually ended with far-right protesters clashing with police. Despite publicly asking that “Nazis, fascists and nutters” not attend its demonstrations, the group has seen a mix of ageing football hooligans from the anti-migrant Patriots of Britain alongside QAnon influencers and other conspiracy theorists arrive.
A report by Red Flare last year documented the connections between TPUK and football hooligan groups like the Pie & Mash Squad and the Democratic Football Lads Alliance. TPUK signed a “patriot declaration” with Patriots of Britain (an anti-migrant group), Students Against Tyranny (a conspiratorial youth organisation) and Antifa Public Watch (a far-right social media operation). Tenconi spoke at a Tommy Robinson conference in January 2025, calling for the detention and deportation of “all Islamists” and “all migrants who are here to colonise”.’
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