Nick Tenconi: From Pornographic Tweets to Deporting One in Seven

UKIP leader Nick Tenconi is treating Britain’s anti-migrant protests as his personal political roadshow. Like a far-right whackamole, he has popped up at locations across the country, taking advantage of fired-up protesters to preach hate “in the name of God”. 

In reality, he hosts exceptionally extreme “remigration” plans that promote the deportation of one in seven of the UK population. Furthermore, he has a history of vile social media posts which objectify women.

As Tenconi seems to have become the speaker of choice for anti-migrant protests, one wonders: do the locals know exactly who they are cheering for? 

Who is Nick Tenconi? 

Tenconi presents himself as a defender of the British people, opposing corrupt establishment powers on behalf of the working man. Far from a working class hero, Tenconi actually grew up in a wealthy family from Eastbourne, East Sussex, where he was privately educated. As an adult, he dabbled in sales and then ran Tenco Training, his personal training business, for several years.

Radicalised during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenconi’s political career started with Turning Point UK, an organisation that seeks to import American culture wars to the UK. Mimicking Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, Tenconi took part in “tabling” at universities, i.e. sitting behind a table on a campus, typically with a provocative phrase on a banner, and baiting students into debate. What sounds like a fair forum of discussion often manifests as middle-aged activists “owning” young and politically inexperienced students, edited clips of which are posted for online mockery.

Tenconi climbed to become COO within Turning Point UK, and joined UKIP in early 2024. By February 2025, barely a year after joining UKIP, he was made its official leader, following the resignation of  previous leader Lois Perry. While UKIP has always had a Christian wing, Tenconi has thrust Christian identity politics to the forefront of the organisation, now dominating the party’s campaigning. 

Feminism and “degeneracy”

Tenconi’s biggest political issue is liberalism, by which he usually means progressive social politics. He claims that liberalism “breeds degeneracy”, and so British people should “return” to traditional social values. However, back in his Tenco Training days, Nick seemed rather comfortable with degeneracy. 

Under his TencoTraining Twitter/X account back in 2020, Tenconi replied to a sex worker’s graphic posts with the caption “wife”. 

He also referred to women as being “attitudey, rude, arrogant, vain, narcissistic, fake, disrespectful, mouthy, attention seeking little cunts”. 

He further spouted horrifically sexist and graphic content, including one post which read “the sassier and stroppier the harder I fuck”. 

Today, Tenconi cloaks his sexism under nationalist ideology, arguing that Brits need to “outbreed the invaders”. To do so, we must combat ideologies which produce “aggressive, angry, unfulfilled women”. In another odd interview, Nick seems to forget his history as a personal trainer and complains about the “masculinisation of women” through building muscle in exercise. 

He says that this, and allowing women to be the family breadwinner or forgo having children until their thirties, is “incredibly toxic and damaging to society”. Apparently it is women earning money, and not men like Tenconi spewing vile sexual abuse online, which is ruining the UK. 

Homophobia and Transphobia

One of Tenconi’s first large political appearances was during a series of protests over Drag Queen Story Hour, a series of child-friendly book reading events by drag artists. On 27 May 2023, Tenconi stood outside the Honor Oak pub on behalf of Turning Point UK, protesting a Drag Queen Story Hour event being held there. 

At the same protest, he asserted that there are “no such thing as pronouns” (clearly that private school education didn’t extend to infant school literacy), adding that he had no issue with LGB rights, but that trans individuals were “something sinister”. In fact, Tenconi actively emphasised that his group were “strong supporters of the LGB community”. 

In reality, Tenconi’s hate is not only reserved for transgender individuals, but for the wider queer community too. His UKIP manifesto promises to repeal the 2013 Marriage Act, which permits same sex couples to marry, as well as allowing adoption agencies to discriminate in favour of married heterosexual couples. 

In a recent speech at the 2025 UKIP conference, he vowed to shift society away from “toxic subversive ideologies that lead to… homosexuality”. He argued that the way to “make Britain great again” is to “make women, women and make men, men again”, a direct stance against all who do not conform to traditional gender roles. 

Immigration and Remigration

Tenconi’s attitude towards immigration is as extreme as it is unrealistic, centred around a three step plan: Detention, Deportation, Remigration.

Beginning at detention, Tenconi has promised to “hunt down” the “1.2 million invaders on British soil”. In a recent tweet, the UKIP party clarified that actually, 5-10 million as a minimum would have to be deported. 

10 million people would amount to around one in seven of the UK population. 

To complete this mammoth task, he plans to deploy the military to “round up the Islamists… the communists” and “the illegals”. He claims, without evidence, that the detention and subsequent mass deportation of immigrants would “automatically reduce the chances of rape and sexual assault by 25% overnight”. 

His deportation plan is equally bonkers, aimed not only at people seeking asylum, but at “communists” too. Tenconi’s use of the term covers a vast spectrum of liberal politics, including all counter-protesters at his rallies. He has a deeply skewed perception of British political beliefs, arguing that “most constituencies will be 25% communist… 25% will be socialist and/or centre left”. By that definition, Tenconi plans to deport almost half of the UK population. 

Even those with British passports, born in the UK to British parents, would be candidates for deportation if they harboured “anti-Christian” liberal politics. Of course, being British born, these individuals have nowhere to be deported to. Tenconi’s solution? Send them to North Korea. 

Under his leadership, the UK would take no refugees whatsoever, closing its borders entirely. Even his interviewer Liam Tuffs, who is no stranger to far-right talking points, seemed shocked by this idea. While a few of the protesters might share Tenconi’s extreme views, many have argued in interviews that they see no problem at all with those seeking asylum, and take specific issue with economic migrants. 

However, Tenconi’s street movement has now escalated to direct confrontation with asylum seekers. In late September, he and his team went to Calais to, in his own words, “hunt” those attempting to cross the channel. They chant “you shall not pass” and shine torches in the faces of terrified looking asylum seekers, many of whom had been sleeping. 

At one point, one of Tenconi’s men approached two people sleeping by a roadside. He yanks the blanket off the dazed and scared young men, and forces them to leave. They went on to disturb and intimidate many others sleeping in already difficult conditions, while holding enormous poles featuring the Union flag and the St George’s cross. 

Tenconi’s attitude towards immigration is laced with Islamaphobic hate, calling asylum seekers “invaders” whose values threaten our own. Ironically, Tenconi is obsessed with “modernising” the values of British Muslims while at the same time encouraging British Christians to embody the most extreme and conservative values. 

Christian Nationalism 

Above all, Tenconi is a Christian nationalist. This means that he directly equates British identity with Christianity and, as mentioned, wants to reinstil “Christian values” into government. To Tenconi, “culture and faith are one and the same thing” and he views his activism as the beginning of “the ninth crusade”. 

However, Tenconi’s definition of Christian values follows a narrow interpretation of the religion. He openly scorns the modern church, claiming that it “has been bastardised to just turn the other cheek and love the sinner”. Instead, Tenconi advocates for “muscular Christianity”, focussing on hyper-masculinity, physical fitness and hard-line conservative values to fix what he refers to as a “void of testosterone and testicular fortitude in our young males”. 

Above all else, Tenconi positions his Christian nationalism in direct opposition to a perceived Islamic threat. At rallies, he commands protesters “to make… God, proud of us again” by fighting back against mass migration. Tenconi also advocates for a ban on Islamic veiling practices under the guise of women’s rights, but simultaneously says that traditional Latin masses, where “all the women are veiled up”, just “make sense”. 

By situating himself as leader of a “holy war”, Tenconi forces his followers to choose between his extreme ideology and a cartoonish vision of hedonistic excess and Islamic takeover. Tenconi paints the image of a country on the verge of civil war, disconnected from one another as we drown in liberalism and debauchery. In an interview, he asks: “When did men stop getting together? In church, or after service, or in pubs, or in closed quarters?”. 

In reality, we are still getting together. Friends still gather in back gardens for rainy British barbecues. Community centres fight austerity cuts to host boxing clubs for young men facing difficult lives. Local cafes are kept alive by students, parents and the elderly swapping gossip over tea. People in Britain, come rain or shine, are still getting together to improve their communities. The likelihood is that Tenconi and his hate just stopped being invited.