Bonum Certa Men Certa

Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) & British Democrats in Clacton by-election hustings

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 07, 2026

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.

Aug 7, 2026

On the right of British politics, there is some argument about which group is closest to the Nazi party. Socialist Worker recently published an article alleging Reform UK is willing to share a stage with Nazis.

On the evening of 6 August 2026, candidates in the Clacton by-election gathered for a hustings-style debate at the Clacton Town Hall.

There were tense moments when Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) expressed concerns about another candidate, Attieh Fard, who was born in Iran but acquired British citizenship. There are thirty four candidates contesting the by-election and at least one of the Australian candidates does not hold British citizenship at all as it is not required to hold a seat in Westminster.

Stephens elaborated on his comments, explaining that it is about race. The Australians and anybody with English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestry are considered, by the British Democrats, to be a superior race. Never mind the fact that Iranians have invented low cost drones that have brought superpowers to their knees in various conflicts around the world.

Stephens himself admitted being twenty percent German. Then again, the British royal family have a lot of German cousins too.

One of the Australian candidates simply asked if anybody remembered where the late Prince Philip was born.

In the Nazi era, the hyper-focus on race was equivalent to the arguments put forward by Kai Stephens.

Germans were expected to apply for an Aryan Certificate (Abstammungsnachweis) to provide proof of their ancestry. To work in the public service, it was necessary to prove at least three generations of Aryan blood. To join the Nazi party or be part of the fearsome SS, it was necessary to provide proof of Aryan blood back to at least the year 1800.

Kai Stephens' concern about Attieh Fard's birthplace, as he explained it to us on stage on 6 August 2026, appears to be analogous to the motivation behind the Aryan Certificate.

On 25 April 2017, the Fellowship elected Daniel Pocock to represent them to the FSFE (fake FSF) in Berlin. When the Germans realised that 25 April is ANZAC Day and Mr Pocock's great-grandfather was an ANZAC, they decided to remove elections from the FSFE constitution. Mr Pocock pointed out that Germans had behaved like this before. The Germans asked Berlin Police to prevent Mr Pocock calling them Nazis. German police prosecute approximately 20,000 people for criminal speech each year. In the case of Mr Pocock's uncannily accurate Nazi comparisons, Berlin police wrote to Mr Pocock, in German, and told him they will not stop him calling the FSFE Nazis.

Mr Pocock's birthday, 9 November, is the anniversary of the Kristallnacht.

Read more about Mr Pocock's work for tolerance and inclusion.

Kai Stephens, Barkley Walsh, British Democrats, Clacton leaflet, Nazi comparison

 

Matthias Kirschner, FSFE, Berlin police, Nazi comparison, criminal speech, criminal defamation

 

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