Jeff Wyatt

Jeff Wyatt was a failed UKIP candidate for Milton Keynes, and deputy leader of the short-lived far-right Islamaphobic splinter group the Best of the Worst: UKIP Local Candidates by David Lawrence (April 26, 2019) Hope Not Hate who, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was best known for dressing up as a crusader and being aggressively on the wrong side of history.Brexit vote: British Parliament rejects Theresa May’s Brexit deal, leaving withdrawal from E.U. and prime minister’s political future in doubt by William Booth, Karla Adam and Michael Birnbaum (January 15, 2019) Washington Post (Archived April 15, 2024)Brexit: The long walk to promised land of an independent Britain by Patrick Freyne (March 27, 2020) Irish TimesJubilant Brexit backers descend on Parliament for 'most exciting moment of their life' by Ben Glaze and Oliver Milne (January 31, 2020) Daily MirrorI went to Nigel Farage's booze-free Brexit celebration with a bottle of vodka and an open mind, and let me tell you it was a wild ride by Harriet Marsden (February 1, 2020) indy100
During the pandemic, Wyatt became a prominent anti-vax and anti-lockdown campaigner, recognizable by his yellow star armband emblazoned with “not vaccinated” in English and German, which he claimed — despite the protests of actual Holocaust survivorsEx UKIP candidate Jeff Wyatt speaks at Stroud anti-vax rally (November 11, 2021) Stroud News — was "the ultimate tribute", as the UK government was instigating genocide against the people and where the Jews ended up was where the people of Britain were headed.
His flagrant disregard for legal regulation was not, however, limited merely to Godwin's law.
On May 16, 2020, shortly after the lifting of the first lockdown, Wyatt was arrested alongside Piers Corbyn at an anti-lockdown/anti-5G protest in London's Hyde Park.Lockdown protesters descend on Hyde park chanting 'freedom' as cops make arrests by Emma Parker (May 17, 2020) Daily Star They were subsequently charged with offences under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations 2020.Police charge former UKIP Milton Keynes candidate over anti-5G protest held during lockdown (June 22, 2020) MKFM The two would unrepentantly go on to lead many such protests across the UK.'Masks are muzzles': Protestors gather outside Milton Keynes Civic Offices (August 21, 2020) MKFMLate night protest rallies about 10pm curfew to be held this Friday and Saturday in Milton Keynes by Sally Murrer (October 1, 2020) MK CitizenFreedom fighters' to parade through shopping centre without masks in Milton Keynes protest this weekend by Sally Murrer (May 20, 2021) MK Citizen
Wyatt celebrated Christmas 2021 with Corbyn by co-leading a "Let the UK Live" anti-vax "freedom rally" in his home town of Milton Keynes, which, despite his local knowledge, got confused, mistook a test-and-trace centre for a vaccine centre,Anti-vaxxers storm Covid testing centre during ‘freedom’ rally in Milton Keynes by Léonie Chao-Fong (December 29, 2021) The Guardian and ended up disrupting Ashley Banjo & Diversity's performance of the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime at the Milton Keynes Theatre.Covid: Anti-vax protesters disrupt Milton Keynes NHS test centre (December 30, 2021) BBC News Fellow Milton Keynes-based COVID-19 denialist John O'Looney was unable to attend, as he was in the ICU having discovered first-hand the reality of the pandemic.Milton Keynes funeral director who's an avid anti-vaxxer ends up in hospital with Covid by Sally Murrer (January 4, 2022) MK Citizen
In September 2022, Wyatt joined the curiously long list of antivaxxers who "died suddenly" during the pandemic, and, in a sure sign of a crusader who chose poorly, ended up being eulogised on the blogs of UKIPJeff Wyatt RIP by Richard Fullerton (October 2, 2022) UKIP and David Icke.Jeff Wyatt: A true man of the people! by Gareth Icke (September 22, 2022) David Icke
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