Former neo-Nazi who makes ‘AI slop’ videos picked as Tory council candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine has a number of convictions in his past, including one for harassing a Labour MP A convicted former neo-Nazi has been selected by the Conservatives to be their candidate for a council election in Somerset. Joshua Bonehill-Paine is now best known as the creator of the popular Crewkerne Gazette accounts on social media, which mock Labour and Reform politicians using AI-generated videos. But previously, he was jailed over a flyer he made and posted to promote a planned neo-Nazi rally in Golders Green, home to a large number of Jewish people. He described it as an ‘anti-Jewification event’ and said it would be ‘an absolute gas’, in a reference to the gas chambers used in the Holocaust. The 2015 conviction in for inciting racial hatred over the Golders Green event was one