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The group always showed an inclination towards violent action even during the Youth Alliance days. Though this developed from “bashing the reds” rhetoric into a more organised threat.

General consensus was that a war was inevitable and White Vanguard would need to train for this.

The group began to imitate other group tactics and tried to appear professional in eyes of other nationalist movements. A part of this was to copy National Action and try to learn lessons from their proscription.

The group did appear to have connections to National Action during its early stages. One of the members claimed to be in contact with former NA activists in Scotland who unlike their English friends didn’t face jail.

White Vanguard appear to have the options to speak to Nazis with experience of proscription and state intervention.

The first major attempt to show this professional nazi image was the Britain First protest in Birmingham last year. Activists were encouraged to wear all black, dress smartly, sunglasses and caps though masks were discouraged.

Unfortunately for them, we were monitoring their meet point and on several occasions our friends got photos of them in before they added hats and sunglasses. This allowed us to identify many of their members early on.

The suggested “uniform” wasn’t followed by even some of the most devout activists and as there were no group flags available.

One of the activists brought along a Youth Alliance flag too also indicating a lack of readily available materials especially as that was the precursor group rather than White Vanguard itself.

The group did though manage to carve out space within the BF protest. Speeches were made and a small crowd cheered while streamers filmed. Wesley Winters interviewed them at the protest which gave them further prominence though in chats afterwards Wesley’s ethnicity was spoken about in great detail.

Tomorrow our next thread will look into some of their later actions, the collection of weapons and some of their opinions of children.

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The new chat was created in March 2025 with a small core of activists. Despite a years long friendship, Max Cleeve would not be allowed in the new chat and would be stuck in Football Lads Protecting Britain.

This wasn’t the first Max had caused trouble amongst his friends while 16, he ended up with his house raided and devices seized. While drunk or high on cocaine, Max would often message chats saying he would go out to demos to attack “lefties”.

The chat was so not shy about promoting their less than legal activities. Despite criticism towards former members, they would often post their own criminal acts and boast about their records.

The chat wasn’t without its rather disturbing conversations that often surpassed the usual antisemitic and islamophobic tripe. One such conversation was discussions about masturbation including how some of the members would masturbate.

Members would also obsess over one the of the younger women inside the National Rebirth Party. Despite the strong talk from White Vanguard about “degeneracy” and returning to traditional family values, this obsessive behaviour often reached the stages of online stalking.

Plans moved forward to begin some of their first group activities, the Canvey action was swiftly removed when common sense prevailed and the group felt it was appropriate to avoid inciting racial hatred charges at such an early state.

Though we never got the chance to release the identity of Kai Cunningham, it is worth highlighting how far he would’ve got within Reform UK unless he was exposed. He would boast about his importantance within the party and said it could be a source for more recruits for White Vanguard.

Attempts were made to control the chaos and to bring order to the chat though much of this was later to fail. I guess they screwed up and incriminated themselves.

Tomorrow we will discuss Birmingham and some of their more violent tendencies and behaviours.

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White Vanguard Part 3

Before we can go into the formation of White Vanguard, it’s important to discuss their precursor group, Youth Alliance. Formed in 2024, it began as a small group of friends; starting with Max Cleeve, Archi Redding, Kai Cunningham, and Harrison Leworthy.

The group made its announcement by burning a Quran and Torah. This was picked up on and supported by Tommy Robinson and his fanbase. Tommy though knew and chose to overlook the Torah burning and chose to promote the group as a new “movement” to combat Islam and the wave of pro Palestine protests.

Rather than challenging the initial signs of antisemitism, TR and team hoped to groom this group and use its energy to swell their ranks and reinvigorate their base which had primarily come from older activists.

Youth Alliance was supported by activists from the South East Division, Turning Point UK and the DFLA to expand and were given organising advice. They were invited into various chats and involved in actions to give them additional skills. Without this support they would’ve faded into irrelevancy.

One of their key actions that helped them grow was joining the South East Division to attack to 2024 Marxism Festival. Harrison was a primary factor in this fight and was responsible for trashing one the stalls and physically beating a SUTR activist.

This relationship though was short lived as Youth Alliance increasingly clashed with far right Zionists within their shared spaces. Concerns increased as the group claimed to have active service members involved and members had claimed to be trying to join Vanguard Britannica.

The group was ousted from civic nationalist spaces though some in South East Division kept links as we saw with Sam Westlake buddying up to Max Cleeve last year. The group had grown enough by that point to carve out its own space.

Youth Alliance began imitating Patriotic Alternative and Active Clubs by holding outreach sessions, spreading propaganda and physical training. This included attempts to train with knives.

As has now happened with White Vanguard, egos clashed and infighting began. A hardcore of activists believed the group was lazy and criticized some of the members for drug use and targeted some of the groups non-white members.

After many name changes, arrests and their media editor leaving for Reform UK, the group split into White Vanguard and another group called Football Lads Protecting Britain.

Tomorrow we will discuss the behaviour of White Vanguard members and how this group acted behind closed doors.

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White Vanguard Part 2