Britain First’s misogyny hypocrisy: Joey Mannarino’s extremist views spotlighted

Meet the MAGA misogynist speaker at Britain First rallies.

On Saturday 2 August, Britain First held their third “March for Remigration”, this time in Manchester. 

Despite attracting over 600 attendees, Britain First still rehashed their usual speakers and once again hosted Joey Mannarino, an American far-right commentator. Clearly, in spite of their pledge to protect women and girls, leaders Ashlea Simon and Paul Golding see no problem with platforming a man who has displayed extreme misogyny. 

Mannarino is possibly the only person who could come to a rally for Britain First, and speak for six-and-a-half minutes about the USA in front of a giant photo of himself and the president while telling the crowd to “scream something for Donald J Trump”. In a tweet including the footage of his speech, Mannarino said that we need to “deport the parasites who are raping their way through America, Europe and the United Kingdom”. 

Mannarino’s hateful rhetoric is not restricted to Britain First events; it carries through to his social media presence. He openly displays his true attitude towards women and girls, proving once again that for Britain First, it was never about the women they swear to protect, but bald-faced racism. 

In 2023, Donald Trump was held civilly liable for the sexual abuse of journalist E. Jean Carrol. In response, Mannarino chose not to stand with victims of abuse, and instead wrote in a since-deleted tweet that he “will never believe a victim of rape again in my life no matter the verdict in court” and that “all rape cases have just become fake to me”. 

Mannarino maintains his despicable attitude towards rape victims today. In direct relation to Trump’s abuse case, he said in late April 2025 that “no one with choices would have sex with [the victim], let alone rape her”. 

His dehumanisation of rape victims would have disqualified him from any event which genuinely stood for women’s rights. However, it is sadly unsurprising that such misogynist vitriol did not prevent him making the Britain First speakers list. 

In 2024, Britain First rightfully condemned a French song with lyrics reading “Marine (Le Pen) and Marion the whores, beat these female dogs in heat with a stick”. However, they did not seem as worried when their star speaker Mannarino used nearly the exact same language. 

Mannarino described liberal women as “allowing any man they meet to rawdog them like wild animals in heat”. The language used to refer to women is equally disgusting in both examples, but are clearly received differently by Britain First. 

He also reposted a video of a woman holding a sign reading ‘love’ up to the window of a van containing ICE detainees, saying that “these women are begging to be raped”. 

And yet, somehow he is still regularly platformed by Britain First, despite their focus on “protecting our women” from “imported rape gangs”. 

It doesn’t stop there. Online, Mannarino has called Democrat women “unfuckable pieces of shit” and has spread conspiracy theories that Kamala Harris was previously a sex worker. In response to a rumour that Robert F Kennedy Jr. was involved in a sex scandal, he remarked that he did not care and is actually “glad when these politicians have sex scandals with women”.

On 4 August 2025, Mannarino reposted a photo of a woman holding a sign reading “I feel much safer with refugees than fascists”. He responded “When a group of Congoleses [sic] guy has her on all fours, would she say the same thing?”. 

The reality is that implying women who challenge far-right views deserve to be raped would have been welcomed at Britain First. In HOPE not hate’s undercover investigation of the group, we caught members on camera wishing rape on a woman who had challenged them on their views:

‘Let’s hope they fuck her up the arse. Honestly, fucking right. If she loves them so much, let her fucking have a bit of them.”

“Yeah when they’re pinning her down and raping her, let her say then about racists.”

This is not the only example of violent misogyny in Britain First. The party leader, Paul Golding, admitted to physically attacking Jayda Fransen, his former partner and deputy of the group, and another ex-partner. The BBC Northern Irish Spotlight team published a recording of him during an argument with Fransen, in which he stated: “The only girls I lay a finger on in my life is (name of woman withheld) and you”. Despite the recording, he has repeatedly denied the claims. 

Inviting Mannarino, who has openly denied any belief in rape victims and engaged with violent misoginyst narratives, to speak for a party which supposedly protects women is a disgrace. It is evidence of an organisation which projects an image of patriotic men valiantly protecting British women, while actually platforming the very men who legitmise and dismiss rape cases where the perpetrator was not an immigrant. The recording of Golding admitting to domestic abuse also shows that while Mannarino’s attitudes contradict Britain First’s public image, he adheres closely to the misogynist core of the movement. 

Britain First proves time and time again to turn a blind eye to extreme misogyny within the organisation, while simultaneously condemning all migrant men as sexual threats. Their decision to ignore Mannarino’s disgusting statements about women are indicative of a broader willingness to ignore any sexism which can’t contribute to a racist narrative, showing it was never about the victims, but their own bigoted agenda.