RUSHMOOR PEOPLE EXPOSED

This website shares publicly available information about Rushmoor People First, a local group whose posts and discussions often include negative views about immigration, immigrants and minorities in the UK and promotes far-right wing agendas. The purpose of this site is to promote transparency and community awareness.

You can view the group’s public page here and make up your own mind.

A few notable members from the area:

• Darren 'Daz' Brady
• Jeremy Charles Stocking
• Lewis 'GB' Botting

Please continue reading for photo evidence from these members, documenting racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other comments. Viewer discretion advised.

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How can I combat this?

Go out and make change in your community. If that means protesting, then do so. Go out and vote - vote for parties who support minorities and equal rights for all (Currently, the Green party do this best, though there are others.)

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Charities

Please consider donating to charities such as:

• Hope Not Hate
• Stand Up To Racisim
• Shelter

These charities stand up against discrimination.

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Manipulated

Many involved with RPF have, from an early age, been shaped by repeated messages about how the world works - messages reinforced over twenty, thirty, even forty years through newspapers and media outlets influenced by right‑wing propagandists.

Over time, constant repetition can blur the line between fact and opinion, until certain beliefs start to feel like absolute truth.

If you recognise yourself or someone you know in these patterns, it may be a sign of having been exposed to a one-sided narrative. Awareness is the first step and with reflection and openness, change is always possible.

Darren 'Daz' Brady is listed as an admin of the RPF group and appears to be associated with the Rushmoor People First Facebook page. He previously posted frequently on his personal account; however, recent posts on the RPF page show similar language and tone, which may suggest a connection.

Darren was also visited by Hampshire police after retweeting a picture, by far-right wing political activist Lawrence Fox, of swastika made out of Pride flags (seen below).

Darren goes by the following usernames:

• Shotover
• Scanmanski
• RoyalGreenJacket

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Jeremy Charles Stocking is a significant contributor to RPF. He appears to be the main person behind 'Operation Raise The Colours' in Rushmoor and does the majority of public speaking for the group.

Examples of Jeremy speaking can be found below:

• "No More Illegal Migrants In Our Community!" - Far- right wing group, Turning Point
• Jeremy speaks at anti-migrant protest in Crowborough

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Lewis 'GB' Botting is a regular poster on Rushmoor People First, most notably concerned with the 'Islamic Takeover' of the UK and 'returning' the UK back to a Christian country. Now going by Johnny English.

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The Lock In

You might feel your group is just mates sticking together, like a good old‑fashioned lock‑in at the local - the doors shut, the windows fogged up, people laughing with their own. It’s comfortable, even cosy, but after a while it gets hard to notice how stale the air’s become or how cut off you are from the folks outside.

When the same stories go round the table enough times, you start to take them as gospel. But Britain’s never thrived behind closed doors - our best moments come from opening them, sharing a laugh, and letting in a bit of fresh air.

If what you’re part of tells you to fear or look down on others, it might be time to step outside, even just for a breath. You’ll find the world’s bigger, kinder, and more colourful than the fogged windows ever let on.

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Still not getting it?

Your group might feel like a place where you belong, but it’s isolating you and feeding you lies about other people. The ideas you’re following are based on fear and prejudice, and they’re stopping you from seeing others and yourself clearly.

Staying in that environment keeps you angry, suspicious, and cut off from the world. You don’t have to hate anyone to protect what you value, and you don’t need that group to have purpose or pride. If you step away, even a little, you’ll start noticing that most people just want the same things you do - respect, safety, and a fair chance.

Leaving won’t make you weak or a traitor. It will make you honest, free, and able to build a better life without the poison of hate holding you back.

Home of the British Army

Rushmoor has a rich military history, with Aldershot famously known as the “Home of the British Army.” Because of this, many veterans have lived, and continue to live, in the area, including some who served during the Second World War.

It’s fitting, then, to look back on the Second World War, when the United Kingdom and its allies united against a common enemy: Adolf Hitler. Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (not to be confused with the socialist movement) more widely known as the Nazi Party. The Nazis promoted an extreme form of fascism based on ideas of Aryan racial superiority and national expansion. Their aim was to create a totalitarian state, eliminate those they deemed “undesirable,” and establish German dominance across Europe.

The UK went to war in 1939 precisely to stop the rise of fascism and defend democratic values from far-right extremism. Today, it’s worth reflecting on how some modern far-right movements, particularly those driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, echo dangerous ideologies from that era.

There’s a certain irony in the fact that Aldershot, a town whose soldiers helped defeat fascism, now includes voices expressing views that resemble the very ideas those veterans once risked their lives to oppose.

Fighting for the right cause

The German soldiers of the Second World War went to fight because they were told their cause was right. In many ways, they weren’t so different from British soldiers - ordinary people answering a call to serve their country.

The crucial difference was that the Germans were fed lies and propaganda that distorted their sense of truth, loyalty, and morality.

With the benefit of hindsight, we can clearly see the manipulation that drove them - but can we be sure we’d recognize it ourselves?

How easily could any of us be led to fight for the wrong cause, believing all the while that we were on the side of what’s right?

Let's Start From The Top

Imagine this: there’s one big boss running the whole country, and you didn’t really get a say in it, but you’re still expected to shut up and do as you’re told.

When things go wrong, it’s never the boss’s fault - it’s always “those people over there,” usually folks who are poorer, from a different background, or just not part of the “real” nation.

You’re told that “our nation” and “our people” are the best, even while you’re skint and nothing seems to improve, and if you start to question it, they wheel out the cops or gangs of loyal thugs to scare you back into line.

Worshipping a strong leader, blaming outsiders, and smashing anyone who speaks up - that’s fascism in a nutshell.

A Fascist government promotes:

• Racism
• Xenophobia
• Homophobia
• Sexism/Misogyny
• Ableism

If you stand against these, you stand against Fascism.

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So, why am I wrong about AntiFa?

If you’ve made it this far, it should be pretty obvious! But to put it clearly, if you’re against any of the above you’re officially Anti Fascist (in short, AntiFa). Welcome to the club!

The Oldest Trick in the Book

Britain has a long and uncomfortable habit of finding someone to blame.

In 1290, Edward I expelled every Jewish person from England, fuelled by rumours of conspiracy and poisoned wells. In the 1840s, Irish families fleeing famine were met not with compassion, but with cartoons depicting them as apes - accused of stealing jobs and spreading disease. The boarding house signs read: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.

The faces changed. The script never did.

After 9/11, Muslims became a monolith of threat - an entire faith of nearly two billion people reduced to a single frightening silhouette. Mosques were framed as breeding grounds for extremism. When Polish workers arrived after EU enlargement in 2004, they were welcomed as useful. Then came the financial crash. Suddenly they were "scroungers" destroying communities. In the month following the Brexit vote in 2016, hate crimes against Polish people rose 41%.

Today it's the people on small boats. Exhausted, desperate human beings - many fleeing wars Britain had a hand in starting - described as an "invasion." In 2024, before a murder suspect's identity was even confirmed, social media had already decided he was Muslim. Riots followed. Mosques burned. Politicians compete to sound the toughest, deploying the language of emergency not to help people, but to frighten voters.

A pattern, not a coincidence

This is not random. It is a political strategy, refined over centuries. When people are struggling, it is far easier to point at a stranger than to examine the systems that actually caused the harm.

Here is the thought worth sitting with: Britain spent centuries conquering the world, planting its flag on nearly a quarter of the earth's surface, settling in lands that were not its own.

The British were, in every meaningful sense, immigrants - uninvited ones, at that.

Perhaps before deciding who belongs and who doesn't, it's worth asking: by whose rules are we counting?