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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Links to the political right?
Mair had affiliations to an organisation called the Springbok Club and is described as “one of the earliest subscribers and supporters of S.A. Patriot“, the magazine of Springbok, now independent. The motto of the Patriotic Forum (an umbrella grouping of patriotic organisations which the Springbok Club is part of) is “Out of Europe and into the World”. Basically, Springbok is a British-based pro-white supremacist, South African organisation. In 1998, UKIP’s Neil Hamilton spoke at the Springbok Club.
According to the World Socialist Web Site, Springbok has associations with the Swinton Circle, which was set up as a Conservative Party fringe group in the 1960s by backers of Tory right-wing xenophobe Enoch Powell. Swinton Circle’s publication, Tough Talking from the Right, held a special readers’ meeting and buffet in the City of London, where the guest speaker was UKIP (now interim) leader Nigel Farage.
Swinton is anti-Europe, but has been involved with the far-right Pegida movement and has attended demonstrations and meetings with other far-right organisations. In February 2016, the Swinton Circle was contacted by Pegida UK and asked to support its ‘Silent Walk‘ in Birmingham, to protest against ‘Islamisation’ throughout Europe.
In 2014, Liam Fox (now a Conservative government cabinet minister) and Owen Paterson MP (Conservative) addressed separate meetings of the Swinton Circle.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/24/t...establishment/ |
did he not just have like a 30 year old pamphlet from this org. To me this guy was a nutjob with no pals and some dodgy old far right stuff lying about but he probably had books on carpentry and train spotting too.
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