Concerns over evangelist YouTuber’s promotion of the far right
Martin Shipton
Concerns have been raised about an evangelical YouTuber who is showcasing the views of far right figures in advance of next May’s Senedd election.
In recent weeks Faith Jarvis, who is the treasurer of an evangelical church in Neath called Church on the Move, has launched a faith and Welsh politics focussed channel that has generated a lot of attention in Welsh Christian circles.
Amongst the people she has interviewed sympathetically is Dan Morgan, a notorious far right activist who jointly runs the racist Voice in Wales group and is an associate of “Tommy Robinson”.
In the interview, Morgan explains why he will be voting for Reform UK. Ms Jarvis nods in agreement with him repeatedly and does not challenge him about his conviction and suspended jail sentence for fraud, which entailed a call centre scam in which pensioners were robbed of their savings.
In a monologue advocating the abolition of the Senedd, she has an insulting characterisation of Welsh people as incapable of running their affairs because of tribalism dating back to medieval times.
She has also interviewed Bishop Ceirion Dewar, a controversial, self-proclaimed Missionary Bishop in the Confessing Anglican Church, known for his “muscular” or nationalist Christianity, linking faith with far-right political movements like Unite the Kingdom in the UK, leading mass baptisms, and speaking at rallies alongside figures like “Tommy Robinson”, representing a growing movement challenging mainstream church liberalism.
Robinson, a notorious Islamophobe, has recently sought to identify with Christianity.
‘Soft-launch’
A concerned experienced Welsh Christian leader with an academic expertise in the intersection of faith and politics told Nation.Cymru: “She presents herself as apolitical, yet many of her talking points closely mirror those found in the alt-right and Reform UK playbook. Taken together, the project has the appearance of a soft-launch campaign aimed at drawing a section of the Christian vote towards Reform ahead of next year.
“I am well connected within the Welsh evangelical Christian world, and yet no one I have spoken to has any prior knowledge of her. She seems to have emerged fully formed, speaking with considerable confidence and authority on the complex intersection of faith, culture, and politics, but it is difficult to identify any clear background, track record, or qualifications that would normally ground such commentary.
“Her output on YouTube and TikTok is also strikingly professional, which naturally raises further questions. Who is funding or supporting this work? Is it linked to Reform, to an arm’s-length campaign organisation, to a particular church network, or is it genuinely an individual project? When a platform of this scale is assembled almost overnight, it is reasonable to expect a degree of transparency about how and by whom it is sustained.
“I have a genuine concern that sections of the Welsh evangelical community may be vulnerable to being drawn, uncritically, into the orbit of Reform.
“She set up her Insta only at the end of November and #seneddelection2026 was hashtagged in her very first post, which suggests a definite agenda and programme.”
Trustee
Ms Jarvis is a trustee of Church on the Move in Neath, which is independent in the sense of not being part of a wider denomination or network.
The only other piece of information about her in the public domain is that she was involved with some kind of Christian worship/music group or project several years ago.
We sent Ms Jarvis a detailed message inviting her to comment, but she did not respond.
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Dear, dear, it will be the worst of times…
Plaid and Rhun ban all worship from that building…
Before it is too late…
Better still ban all worship from our country. Cranky fundamentalist “Christians” just as bad as those full on Islamist nut jobs.
Agreed, as long as you keep the inverted commas. Such attitudes are alien to conventional Christisns.
… except a lot of them who purport to be conventional, centre ground, tolerant etc seem unable to tell the cranks to go forth and multiply.
Start with banning Christianists first and see how far you get.
Then there are plenty of nut jobs that don’t purport to follow any religion so maybe just ban all human life.
Might be a front for sinister activities.
How long before there are Christianists wielding swords and guns on the streets of Welsh cities looking for Muslims to behead and kill in the name of their Lord?
Now now Amir, I know it is the darkest hour before dawn but chin up, mate!
farage riots ring a bell?
Pray tell…
Chris Parry, reform candidate, now wants people to eat bacon for a month to prove their allegiance to christianity. That hits at two religions right off the bat.
My mistake, 3 or more. And hits at people with dietary choices.
I’ve eaten bacon and other pork derivatives for over 60 years. Does that make me intensely Christian, or is it just a physical health risk?
In Parry and reform eyes you are Grand Wizard material.
I don’t like dressing up especially in those pointy hoods. Makes my beard itch.
A good reason to vote Plaid, Secularise the Senedd and treat people as equals and not this disgusting chosen few Cult now in operation in our ‘Parliament’…
Agreed. Vote PC.
Its just this is the same rhetoric I used to argue against with the followers of omar bakri in London in the 1990s. Some pretty loud arguments on the streets of London.
I made the university aware of these people and got them temporarily banned.
They went on to bomb London in 2005.
I know the consequences of the language of hate and division and then add in religion.
Re. Wielding swords and Welsh Cinema, the fight scenes in Polanski’s Macbeth are thought the best on film and a teaching aid for would be stunt men…
The Battle of Black Rock Sands…Legend
It’s the s.o.b’s with automatic weapons you should really worry about, no matter what sect or cult is strutting its stuff.
Any Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist person with an intent to destroy another person or people lives in the hope they will end up with a better life in the next is a person I will always worry about, no matter what their weapon.
But it always starts with the language of hate and division, a lower self esteem and a feeling of being second best.
And a total.misunderstanding of their religion’s basic teaching.
Politics and religion have that common need to control people, headed by many strange people who move to the extremes and easily glide into criminality to get what they want.
We can ignore religion, it’s a shame we can’t ignore politics and find another way.
Far right religious zealots in the US are making inroads here.
They are scary, need to pay attention. farage is already in their sphere of influence.
Why not go all the way and interview Young Bob at Speakers Corner and Nick Tenconi on his Reclaiming Britain from the Islamists and Communists Marches.
This is one church that I will be giving a wide berth.
Instead of a pseudonym in quotation marks, you could have written convicted serial offender Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Wouldn’t worry too much. It’s obvious from her clips she’s not the sharpest tool in the box.
What begins as support for Reform can soon morph into cheering on the slide towards Fascism. Stop Reform now, help Plaid Cymru and Wales.