James Goddard

James Goddard has been called the ‘yellow vest’ ringleader Leicester-born activist has called for all Muslims to be removed from UK

Conservative campaigner James Goddard quit work to become a full-time activist. MPs are calling for increased protection from pro-Brexit “yellow vest” protestors who have been heckling politicians and journalists outside Parliament.

James Goddard repeatedly shouted that Remainer Tory MP Anna Soubry was a "Nazi" as she gave a lived BBC interview.

Goddard’s vocal opposition to Islam is the dominant theme of his activism, and he has called for the total eradication of the religion from the UK on multiple occasions. In one social media post, he told followers that the East London Mosque “needs closing down, along with every other Mosque, that currently besmirches our great country”.

In a video filmed last September, Goddard was heard telling a North London imam that he wanted to “ban Islam in the West” and would pay British Muslims to leave the country.

Goddard added that if Muslims did not agree to leave voluntarily “then we’d have to think of a legal way that we could do it”.

Conservative views go beyond Islam, Goddard claims to have no political affiliations, but his posts on Gab, a free speech social network, indicate that he has been voicing opinions online since at least August 2017.

Although “the majority of his posts are critical of Islam, he also expressed white-pride and anti-LGBT views, suggesting that mixed-race trans model Munroe Bergdorf should “jog off back to the jungle”.