“Bloody AI.  It’s taking over everything.  It’s even now encroaching on British right-wing extremism,” laments veteran British fascist Oliver Mouldry. “I ask you, is nothing sacred? The politics of hate should be the exclusive preserve of real human beings, not bloody virtual avatars on social media!” Mouldry, who has, over the past forty plus years been involved with every major British extreme right political movement, from the National Front to Britain First and is currently a member of Reform UK, has been disturbed and dismayed by the emergence in recent months of a popular extreme right, AI powered, social media meme: Manic Nazi Girl. The AI generated Nazi girl has appeared in hundreds of videos posted across social media sites, in which she extols the virtues of ‘British’ values, fights hugely bearded Islamic extremists, napalms hundreds of asylum seekers landing on British beaches in small boats, machine guns a gay pride march and spits in the faces of climate change campaigners, all of which have been viewed millions of times. “Apparently, she’s become Britain’s favourite fascist leader amongst the young,” says an exasperated Mouldry. “Because she doesn’t just enact the fascist dream, but she does it while dressed so fashionably and looking so cute!” Mouldry fears that Manic Nazi Girl is essentially devaluing the whole fascist movement, trivialising it by presenting its main tropes as thirty second bites of entertainment. “Not only that, but it’s all very well her doing this stuff virtually and stirring up potential followers with online memes, but can it translate into real world politics?” he asks. “I mean, it’s not as if she can actually go out onto the streets and raise the rabble to burn down real Mosques and asylum centres, is it?”

Despite Mouldry’s reservations, it is rumoured that the success of Manic Nazi Girl has inspired a number of prominent British extreme right figures to consider venturing into AI themselves. “There’s no doubt that the likes of Nigel Farage and ‘Tommy Robinson’ feel threatened and are wondering if AI represents the future of right-wing extremism,” opines Professor Bill Frint of the University of East Sheen, who has conducted an extensive study of the extreme right in Britain. “I mean, why listen to the demented rantings of, say, a failed commodities broker accused of racism or a convicted mortgage fraudster and football thug, when you can instead have as your figurehead an AI generated fascist who carries no past baggage of criminal convictions or dodgy City dealings?” The academic also notes that an AI fascist leader could be far more physically attractive than either frog faced Farage or short arse Robinson. “Up until now, it’s apparently been a rule that British fascists have to not only be stupid, but also ugly as sin,” he notes. “Not just the current crop – just look at the likes of Nick Griffin and everyone associated with the National Front, BNP, English Defence League and UKIP, if you don’t believe me.” Frint also contends that an AI extreme right leader would have the advantage of instant deniability for any transgressive statements it made. “If one were to start spouting awful racist insults at minorities, they’d have the automatic defence that they aren’t real, so can’t really be racist, can they?  It’s all just a glitch in the algorithm rather than evidence of deep seated irrational bigotry and hatred,” he muses.  “Arguably, they would also be more efficient than any flesh and blood neo Nazi leader: able to do their own fact checks before they speak, able to properly research their bigotry and able to phrase it subtly enough that it doesn’t ostensibly sound racist, let alone be legally actionable.”

Consequently, Frint confidently believes that, any day soon, we’ll see Reform UK debuting a new AI version of Nigel Farage. “It would combine Farage’s ‘bloke-in-the-pub mateyness’ and populism with more handsome visage, manly physique and greater sartorial elegance,” he predicts. “Moreover, this hypothetical new AI Farage could star in their own propaganda videos which look far better and classier than anything Reform UK could produce.  They could be seen participating in the crusades, for instance, single handedly fighting off hordes of Saracens, before the scene morphs into one of them single handedly turning back hundreds of immigrants (who look just like those marauding Saracens) landing on a British beach in an Armada of rubber boats.  Or maybe they could be shown flying their Spitfire in defence of Britain, but not against the Luftwaffe, but instead against planes with crescents on their wings and tails, all flown by swarthy looking bearded devils, cackling evilly as they drop bombs on innocent British citizens.”

Such a move to digital AI representations of themselves will be vital for Britain’s far-right leaders, Frint believes, if they are not to find themselves replaced by new AI fascist leaders. “Look, how long can it be before some whacked out crypto-fascist tech billionaire decides to bypass buffoons like Farage and Robinson and instead create the sort of AI extreme right leader I’ve described and set them up as the figurehead of a new British extreme right, backed by their billions?” he ponders.  “Quite frankly, the only hope for Farage et al lies in them creating their own AI avatars to represent them – an idealised digital Farage who isn’t as utterly repugnant as the real one and who can put their arguments over slickly and plausibly, rather than coming over as a grubby money grabbing shill.  The AI revolution is coming and these guys need to get aboard or be swept aside by a new generation of digital fascists!”

Others, however, doubt that AI is the answer for Britain’s extreme right. “For God’s sake, you just can’t trust AI, especially now that it has gone woke!” declares Daily Excess columnist Justin Crocklyn. “It’s been proven – all the answers those bloody chatbots give are sourced from leftist newspapers like The Guardian or worse, the BBC! You allow AI to power a virtual Nigel Farage and before you know it he’ll be spouting crap about the need for ‘Net Zero’ and appearing in fake videos were he warmly embraces immigrants as they land on the beaches, offering them cups of tea! It’s all a bloody conspiracy to brainwash our youth!” The idea that AI has ‘gone woke’ has been challenged by Professor Frint, who points out that the study Crocklyn appears to be referencing merely found that some chatbots seemed to use a very limited range of sources to answer queries. “Which could simply be because, in the UK at least, the ‘journalism’ of the right-wing press rarely has a sound factual basis, instead being based upon bigotry, bias and deliberate misinterpretation of actual facts.  No wonder AI algorithms filter them out,” he explains. “Besides, I hardly think that his argument is supported by Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, declaring that it is ‘Mega Hitler’ and continually propagating misinformation and white supremacist propaganda! Anyone would think that it was preparing to challenge Nigel Farage for the leadership of Reform!”