Leavers on the Right insist that Brexit represents a new dawn, a break from the old politics and a fresh start for Britain. On Monday, however, a candidate for UKIP, Nigel Farage’s old political stomping ground, was revealed to have used a Discord server to drum up support for his EU election campaign, and predictably it was awash with hate.

The UKIP candidate, Youtuber Carl Benjamin — or “Sargon of Akkad” — invited fans to join his server, titled #sargon-MEP-help-offers, to help him get elected. Comments uncovered by Buzzfeed were openly fascist: “Maybe start assassinating fucking Eurocrats, preferably the unelected ones on top. But alas. That would be murder. And be wrong. Totally.” Another user commented: “We should strip them of their humanity first. If they’re not recognized as humans, it’s not murder,” adding, “First step is forcing them to wear some kind of branding on their clothes.” Another asked: “So we decapitate the parliament members?” With a member responding: “Send messages. Hang em on street-lights.”

The comments throughout the Discord were avowedly racist and hate-filled — no surprise from a deliberately controversial candidate who is proudly “anti-feminist” (read, misogynist), and par for the course for much of the Euroskeptic right, which is given so much credulous airtime by the mainstream media.