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(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
Nigel Farage’s campaign manager in South Thanet – Martyn Heale – is a former branch organiser for the far-right skinhead organisation the National Front.
He was only allowed to remain a UKIP member after he maintained he “sincerely” regretted his membership of the neo-nazi organisation.
So why then – hidden deep inside an article in the London Review of Books – is Heale now defending the National Front?
Here are a couple of extracts from the LRB interview with Heale:
In view of Ukip’s insistence that it isn’t a racist party, I thought Heale might be defensive, or embarrassed, or apologetic, about having been a member of the NF in 1978. To my surprise, he came to its defence. “There’s been an attempt by many people to associate the National Front with the far right,” he said, “but that’s not fair, that’s not true.”
“It was a bit of a social club.”
a social club?
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Unfortunately, for the likes of Heale, in the late 1970s the NF was possibly as close to ‘social interaction’ as they had ever been. Boring, tedious lefties — such as myself — would go out — with male and female friends — to ‘gigs’. The Clash or the Buzzcocks perhaps … The audience — certainly in Leicester — was a great deal more diverse than the likes’ of Mr Heale would have been capable of understanding. Farage may claim to be non-racist — complete bollocks — but in Ukip there are virulent racists.
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The NF Marched through Manchester in the 70’s. There wasn’t that many of them and they were heavily outnumbered by police. It that was their idea of a sociable outing, it is no wonder the NF has never really caught on.
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Martyn Heale is plainly a rank amateur when it comes to spinning the truth (i.e. lying). Maybe he should take some lessons from the work of Alastair Campbell.
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storyboard4 – I’ll let you into a secret…… there are virulent racists in ALL the main parties. Maybe one day you and so many others (including Tom) will finally realise that racism is NOT a party political issue.
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I was made to stay in on many a Saturday, as a young teenager growing up during the late 70’s, due to NF and BNP marches in Welling. Our otherwise dull & unremarkable outer London suburb was taken over by fighting hordes due to the local BNP office. Not my idea of a social club.
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So someone did something 30 years ago and can not change their ideas later I used to be staunch labour but since the late 70’s they have lost their way completely so they are now right wing. It’s clutching at straws to say people can not change their allegiances or political beliefs because they certainly can.
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Al qaeda is just a religious group trying to rise money for homeless children
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Another member of Farage’s non-sectarian, non-racist party is revealed to have a racist, Nazi past. People do change their political beliefs over time , of course, but it’s worrying that Heale tries to persuade his readers that the NF, which defined itself as a ‘National revolutionary’ organisation, with a deliberate policy of recruiting thugs to fight and assault the Left and non-Whites, was merely a ‘social club’.
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” The social club ” – stopped a lot of gigs , just a bit of fun those kick offs…not – Sham 69 had problems , very polarised era , er just like now
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