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 use...