Foundation by Paul Weston Paul Weston, the founder, was a former member of the
UK Independence Party (UKIP) and was that party's candidate in
Cities of London and Westminster at the 2010 general election. He left UKIP over what he described as its failure to address issues related to
Islam in Britain, and took over the
British Freedom Party (BFP) from Peter Mullins. That party formed an alliance with the far-right
English Defence League. Weston left the BFP in 2013. He has predicted that within 20 years there will be a war in Britain between the white working class and immigrants. He is married to a
Romanian and claims to have been a
deep sea diver, a pilot in Africa and a property developer in the
Czech Republic. It was registered with the
Electoral Commission by Weston and George Whale on 5 March 2013.
2014 European election Liberty GB stood three candidates in the
2014 European Parliament election in the
South East England constituency: Weston, Enza Ferreri (Liberty GB's media officer) and
Jack Buckby (Liberty GB's outreach officer). Buckby founded the "National Culturists" while at university in
Liverpool in 2012. Its three candidates received 2,414 votes (0.11%), placing it 14th of the 15 parties contesting the election.
2014 Paul Weston arrest On 26 April 2014, Weston was arrested while addressing passers-by outside
Winchester Guildhall. A member of the public complained to police and he was detained after failing to move on under a dispersal order. He was further arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment. Weston's speech quoted from
Winston Churchill's 1899 book,
The River War, about Churchill's experiences as a British army officer in
Sudan; the passage quoted was critical of
Islam. Weston is a former UKIP candidate who left that party over what he described as its failure to address issues related to Islam in Britain, and then joined the British Freedom Party. Buckby polled just over 1% of the vote; he lost his deposit, as did all the candidates except the winner, the Labour candidate
Tracy Brabin.
Dissolution by Paul Weston Paul Weston dissolved the party in November 2017, choosing instead to back
Anne Marie Waters' new party,
For Britain. == Electoral performance ==