UPDATE: Only 24 hours after we posted this story, our UKIP sources called in to say that the party’s ’Heritage & Noble Principles of the British People’ spokesperson, Dean Neil, was reported to have spontaneously resigned in protest over the Bean appointment. One source even specified that Neil was reacting directly to seeing the Searchlight report.
Neil, a professional goalkeeping coach and bricklayer, has certainly been whisked off the UKIP website’s list of spokespeople, with no explanation. Curiously, Mr Bean has not been added to the list, which one might have expected during the same site edit.
Are Tenconi and Walker perhaps already reconsidering associating themselves with the screwy driver? Even by far-right standards, Bean does seem unusually ’Crowthorne-and-a-cab’. (The public transport route to Broadmoor).
Original article:
“I’m gonna put a knife through your brain.” This threat, made on a live stream in 2019 by one Simon Bean MBE now takes on great significance – the Mr Bean in question has just been co-opted into the leadership of UKIP, as the party’s Veterans and Armed Forces Spokesman.
On the plus side, Bean does at least have military service on his CV. With the less than exciting Royal Corps of Transport from 1983, he served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and in Princess Anne’s security detail. On a rather more negative note, along the way, or as a result of his service, Bean appears to have suffered from serious mental health issues to the extent that many within the military veterans movement now give him a very wide berth.
After all, this is the man who once claimed that he, and millions of “well-trained” ex-service personnel, were going to “basically bring the fucking country to its fucking knees” in response to the threatened prosecution of a former soldier for the shooting of an unarmed civilian in Northern Ireland in 1974. He also claimed they would shutdown the operations of the port of Dover. Many other threats were also forthcoming.
Bean is the latest recruit to the leadership of UKIP who brings with him an earlier association with ‘Tommy Robinson’. Bean was on the National Committee of the the Football Lads Alliance in 2018 when it was organising joint activities with ‘Robinson’ (aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Several ‘Robinson’ associates have been drafted into UKIP as NEC members or Spokespersons recently, in preparation for the likely hook-up between UKIP and Robinson when he gets out of jail.
Bean has been a member of UKIP before but now is right back in the fold and straight into the leadership group. It’s perfectly normal, of course, if you’re involved in the new UKIP, controlled by a gang of crooks, thugs and ‘Tommy Robinson’-aligned racists, to welcome a man who threatened to travel to Greece “because I’ve done my research” and kill someone he disagreed with.
And in a public place, online, for all to see, to someone else who had incurred his displeasure: “I’m coming for you Andy. I’m gonna put a knife through your fucking brain. Do you understand me you cunt? I’m coming for you and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Any residual credibility UKIP might have had has now evaporated as it welcomes this violent, obsessive, unstable, one-man threats machine into the fold. No need to bother with politics and elections. Democracy? That’s for sissies. After all, Bean and his ilk are trained for combat, so “Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war…”