On 5 October, we covered that Turning Point UK promoted a march by ‘King’s Army’ in Soho:

Activists from the ‘King’s Army’ block traffic in Soho in protest of the immoral culture in the ‘sex district’. pic.twitter.com/sVHN0F1qSW

— Turning Point UK (@TPointUK) October 4, 2025

In that article, we highlighted that some described the group as ‘blackshirts’. Since then, we’ve learned there’s a very simple reason why you don’t get blackshirts on the streets anymore, and that’s ‘the law’:

Turning Point UK published a video yesterday promoting “The King’s Army”, a group protesting against “immoral culture” while dressed in uniform.

This type of activity has been illegal in the UK since the 1930s under legislation brought in to combat fascism. pic.twitter.com/k4WI9LyIna

— Patrick Hurley (@patrick_hurley) October 5, 2025

The King’s Army

As we reported, King’s Army is a militant Christian organisation with a heavy emphasis on ‘militant’:

People ridiculed their march in Soho:

What on earth is happening in our country? People dressed up in quasi blackshirt style uniforms having the gall to tell us to be moral. Just sod off the lot of you. PS they’re 30 years too late. The sex more or less disappeared from SoHo years ago! https://t.co/RdT8hI9OaF

— Iain Dale (@IainDale) October 5, 2025

You can read more about the wild origins of King’s Army in this thread:

‘The King’s Army’ is a non-denominational Christian evangelism and discipleship movement launched in the UK mid-2024 – a “spiritual army” of believers enlisted to combat sin, cultural decay, and “darkness” through aggressive street outreach, prayer marches and public protests. pic.twitter.com/kS2QZRbQGw

— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) October 5, 2025

We recommend reading all of it, because it takes several unexpected twists (Simon Cowell pops up at one point). The thread ends with this:

Anyway. This shit is getting completely out of hand.

A uniformed ‘evangelical army’ connected to Charlie Kirk’s far-right Turning Point USA on Britain’s streets just as Trump is destroying US democracy and the same people behind him want to install Farage here?

FUCK THAT SHIT. pic.twitter.com/Z4velqYwng

— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) October 5, 2025

The blackshirt laws

As YouTuber Patrick Hurley highlighted above, the UK has laws against individuals from wearing uniforms which signify their involvement in a political organisation. There is an exception, which is that uniforms may be worn on a “ceremonial, anniversary, or other special occasion” where it “will not be likely to involve risk of public disorder”. This caveat exists – rightly or wrongly – to allow things like the Orangemen marches (as they discussed in parliament at the time).

The King’s Army march in London doesn’t seem to have been marking a special occasion; it’s also obvious the uniforms aren’t a one-off:

The question is this: is King’s Army a political organisation?

Politics

Here’s what King’s Army say on their website:

We are not a political organization [sic]. We don’t stand for, represent, or align ourselves with any political party.

Oh okay, so that’s cleared up.

Or it would be if I didn’t click one of their videos anyway, because this is what they say in the very first second of their Spiritual Confrontation London:

I’m confused now, because ‘soldiers’ making a ‘stand’ against ‘political issues’ outside the ‘political centre’ in the ‘nation’s capital’ sounds like a distinctly political thing to do?

No-tier policing when it comes to the King’s Army

We contacted the Metropolitan Police to ask how they plan to approach this allegedly apolitical group the next time they’re engaging in unmistakably political actions. The Met did not get back to us.

If you live in London yourself, you may want to ask the Met why a US-backed ‘aPoLiTiCaL’ group is running around in uniform doing political activism. Be sure to let us know what they tell you if they bother responding.

Featured image via King’s Army

By Willem Moore

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