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Name | A Force For Good |
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Tags | Populist/Radical Right |
Categories | Organisation |
Related People/Groups | |
Years Active | 2012 – Present |
Active Areas | England |
A Force For Good (AFFG) is a Scottish self-described “pro-UK campaign group and think tank” headed by former UKIP organiser, Alistair McConnachie.
McConnachie was forced out of UKIP in 2001 for engaging in Holocaust denial. He was paid by the Orange Order for “social media services” ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, and also addressed the tiny but extreme TradSoc conference in 2019.
Under the AFFG banner, McConnachie produces a regular, but little-viewed, stream of video content, with guests including David Clews of Unity News Network, David Kurten of the Heritage Party and Niall Fraser of the Scottish Family Party. McConnachie has himself appeared on far-right shows, including Voice of Wales in 2024.
McConnachie and AFFG are active in Scottish street politics, for example holding counter-demonstrations against pro-independence marches and supporting anti-trans demonstrations. In 2023, when asked by a reporter at an anti-republican protest, McConnachie stood by his assertion that “gas chambers [were not] used to execute Jews”, and that eyewitness accounts had been “revealed as false or exaggerated”.
He is also founder of Independent Green Voice, a tiny political party that has fielded former British National Party activists Max Dunbar and John Robertson as candidates. In 2021, the group was accused by the Scottish Greens of having cost them seats, due to the similar name and logo possibly confusing voters.
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