I NOTED that Kirklees BNP organiser David Exley referred to the newly elected MEP for the Yorkshire and Humber area Andrew Brons as "A really good nationalist and an honest bloke, who will represent everyone in Yorkshire".
Is that really what David believes?
If the BNP wanted to distance itself from nazism, the last person it should have chosen as a candidate is Andrew Brons.
Brons started his nazi career in the National Socialist Movement, an organisation that
was deliberately founded on Hitler's birthday by Colin Jordan, the British nazi leader who died in April. NSM members were responsible for an arson campaign against Jewish property and synagogues in the 1960s.
Brons was a prominent member of the National Front, notorious for its extreme racism and violence, from its early days and was voted onto its national directorate in 1974. Later as the NF's education officer he hosted seminars on racial nationalism and tried to give its racism a more "scientific" basis.
In March 1980 Brons was promoted to NF chairman. One of his allies during this period was Richard Verrall, the author of Did Six Million Really Die?, with whom he edited the NF journal New Nation. In 1982 Brons led an NF march through Northfield on which marchers chanted: "we've got to get rid of the blacks".
In June 1984 Brons was convicted of behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace following his arrest in Leeds while selling papers in a shopping centre.
He and another NF member were heard shouting slogans such as "Death to Jews", "White Power" and "National Front". When approached by PC John Raj, Brons stated: "inferior beings like yourself probably do not understand the principle of free speech".
Andrew Brons is a disaster for the people of Yorkshire and Humber.
CARL MORPHETT
Kirklees Unity
Healds Road
DEWSBURY
