Nick Griffin’s racist best mate spouts outrageous views that ‘blacks are cursed’ and hid fact he’s Indian and has Ukrainian wife
Jack Sen, a far right activist who was suspended by both the BNP and UKIP for his views, calls modern Western culture 'disgusting'
HE'S best friends with ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin, believes black people 'are cursed', says Hitler is his hero and was ousted from Ukip for trolling Jewish MP Luciana Berger.
Yet while he sounds like your classic white supremacist, a Channel 4 doc reveals that far right activist Jack Sen has actually been trying to conceal his true heritage for years - he is part Indian, was born Dilip Sengupta, and is married to a Ukrainian woman.
Sleeping With The Far Right presenter Alice Levine stays with Sen and his family in Southport to try to understand more about the former Ukip candidate, who Nigel Farage struck off over hateful racist comments about MPs.
Over the week, she learns the extent of his horrifying racist beliefs - he is against "Muslims, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, feminists, liberals and left wingers"- and how much a contradiction his British nationalist identity is to his real background.
When she asks him why he changed his Indian birth name, Dilip Sengupta, Sen responds: "Can we not have that in the film? I changed that for legal reasons. My mother should not have mentioned that."
Angrily storming off after his 'cover' is blown, he adds: "I'm furious at her because that ruins the whole thing for me.
"I'm finished, this is actually finished now. This is f*****g irrelevant". She's a poor interviewer."
'He changed his name to sound more British'
In contrast to his current life in North West England - where his family reside because the locals are "86 per cent British-born" - Sen had a very multicultural upbringing.
He was born Dilip Sengupta in the UK to an Indian-South African father and British mother, Faye, who speaks seven languages.
When he was seven, his family moved to the United States, where he went to school in a Jewish community.
But in a still-strong American accent, he says he returned to the UK at the age of 20 as he "didn't like the multicultural aspect of the US."
It appears this experience has had a lasting impact on him.
"What shaped my identity and my political beliefs is when I lived in multicultural America in a Jewish community, I felt miserable," he explains. "I believe multi-ethnic societies are toxic. You keep to your own."
Back, in the UK in 2015, Faye says her son changed his name to Jack Sen to be more British-sounding so he could be "accepted" by far right groups.
Hitler is his hero
Sen has 25 websites and Facebook pages - funded privately by supporters - on which he posts deeply offensive opinions about "Muslims, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, feminists, liberals and left wingers".
He believes the "ideal year" - the era he wants British society to return to - is 1937, as he admires the fascist leaders of the time such as Adolf Hitler and Oswald Moseley.
In the documentary, he also explains that he feels Western society has let itself go, branding it "disgusting" and "hedonistic".
"People say 'you're fighting to preserve western culture', and I say, 'I'm not - I'm fighting to bring back western culture.'"
'Black people are a 'curse''
The one-time candidate for UKIP in West Lancashire also reveals his controversial views on immigration, despite the fact he is married to a Ukrainian woman called Natasha.
"You bring in these people for free labour, and you suffer the consequences of having them for eternity basically," he says of black people in Britain. "It's a curse, I genuinely believe that. I don't want to live in a society where there's that many black people."
His wife, who admits she was attracted to him because she thought he looked like Keanu Reeves, also expresses similar views.
"I grew up in place without any minorities. So for me to see minority was a novelty," she says in a thick Eastern European accent, before revealing she believes locations like London are a "ghetto" with constant shootings, stabbings and rapes.
She clashes with Levine when the presenter tells her that more rapes are committed by white men in the UK and not the "Muslim grooming gangs" Natasha references.
'I want to be the British Donald Trump'
Levine hadn't long stepped through the door when she learns of Sen's ambitions to become the British 'Donald Trump'.
His mum complains that "we don't have anyone in our country who is actually fighting for us, the people. I just wish we had a Donald Trump."
During her stay in their house, Levine watches Sen video call both Nick Griffin, who was expelled from the BNP in 2014, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
It is his conversation with Griffin that descends into a row, with the men accusing Levine of trying to change the subject from "preventing World War Three" to racism, and Sen calls her an "obnoxious" liberal.
Silencing his detractors through writing fake news
At one point during her stay, Levine learns how Sen goes about silencing his detractors by writing slanderous news articles about them, then allegedly paying Russian hackers to help them fly to the top of Google.
"We make sure that if you Google them it comes up first," he says of how they target critics by posting videos and articles that discredit them.
"I could put an article about you at the top. Write anything I want to. We've done that many times to many people. We destroy someone who's damaging your work.
"[One reporter] basically attacked me relentlessly in the press, so I had my guys take the article that was written and drive it home at the top.
"I don't see this as left or right, I see this as good versus evil," he adds. "We're pushing truth, decency, righteousness. We want to rebuild the country, stop the killing, close the borders."
Sleeping with the Far Right is on Channel 4 on Thursday 21 February 2019 at 9pm