A former tax worker who described himself as "the ultimate genocidal racist monster" has been jailed for inciting hatred online after he was exposed by a BBC investigation.
Thomas Webster was sacked by HMRC and investigated by police after comments he made to an undercover journalist in the BBC programme 'Unmasked: Extreme Far Right'.
Webster, 29, from Lapworth, Warwickshire, admitted 10 counts of stirring up racial hatred online, including ones calling for the killing and extinction of his racial "enemies".
Webster also admitted to stirring up religious hatred and another count of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. He was sentenced to two years at Warwick Crown Court.
In his online posts, Webster said he wanted Jewish and gay people to be tortured and executed.
Webster also said he wanted to kill all Muslims until they were "globally extinct".
In one instance, he said if a migrant hotel was placed on his road he would "prepare for murder and prison time, I am serious".
Webster was a member of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative when a BBC Wales Investigates' undercover reporter secretly recorded him at two of the group's events in 2024.
He was filmed saying that in his job at HMRC he liked to "deliberately" give non-white people "bad information which sounds interesting, like I'm deliberately trying to sabotage them".
Webster was dismissed by HMRC in February 2025, a month after the programme was broadcast.
The HMRC said it took breaches of its standards "extremely seriously" and had "robust processes" in place to investigate concerns.
"Where standards are not met, we act decisively," HMRC said in a statement.
"Following an internal disciplinary process, the individual concerned was dismissed from HMRC and ceased to be employed by the department in February 2025."
Talking to an undercover BBC reporter, Webster self-identified as a "white totalitarianist" who believed in "a world where white becomes the default human race... all other races will be extinct."
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HMRC appears to have a real problem with extremists from the far left and far right in its employment.
ReplyDeleteThe vetting and background checks are totally inadequate.
And why aren't colleagues reporting them? As we all know, this isn't one bad apple. Do we really believe that the extremists don't talk about their twisted obsessions in the workplace? Highly unlikely. Just like all the bullying and swearing inside HMRC, it's not reported because it's 'unremarkable'.
@14:11 I wanted to share my story as you make some great points. I was bullied out of my HMRC career by far left extremists because they thought I was a conservative. My own line manager was convinced that I wasn't ideologically pure. Despite achieving the best yield on the team she expressed concern, based on nothing other than a suspicion from pcs union reps, that I didn't "believe in our work". These nut jobs are lurking inside HMRC, I'm afraid.
DeleteThis racist criminal should have got a longer sentence, and there are many other from scumbags in hmrc past and present who need to be held accountable
If you were/are a conservative then upholding the rule of law is entirely consistent with conservative values. She sounds like another Radical Left psycho who clearly needs help. No wonder HMRC is in such a mess.
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DeleteI have difficulty believing your post.
When I worked in HMRC and one of it's predecessor departments the majority of my colleagues were Conservative supporters. Not a huge majority but a steady 60/40 or thereabouts.
What does the phrase about your line manager not thinking you were ideologically pure even mean? There is no requirement in HMRC to reveal your political beliefs. A PCS rep bullying you (how precisely?) because of your political views would be a serious disciplinary offence. And why would said rep approach your line manager saying you didn't "believe in our work". Whose work? What disbelief? Meaningless word salad.
And most importantly, after you lost your job, what was the Employer Tribunal's ruling on the politically motivated bullying that you endured?. We'd all like to know.
Wouldn't it be fabulous if he took an advisory role in the job we pay him through the nose for.
ReplyDeleteHe must have a lot of free time on his hands
Stuff the punters.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/hmrc-perm-sec-takes-on-advisory-role-at-university
Big brother is watching you and sniffing your bank statement
ReplyDeleteOnly when it suits them...
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/hmrc-explains-new-digital-reporting-34608338.amp