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IT’S THE BRONS SHIRTS! | ||||||
In his lengthy statement on the BNP website on the Monday after the results were declared, he never once mentioned Brons. Perhaps because it is already dawning on Griffin that his Euro-colleague promises to be a continual embarrassment – and especially on the subject of Nazism. Had Brons been around during the Blitz he’d probably have been yelling “Bring it on!” As Private Eye first reported as long ago as 1973 (issue 310), Brons cut his political teeth back in the 1960s in the National Socialist Movement, whose members were best known for strutting about in mock-SS uniforms and firebombing synagogues. He was the pet pupil of Britain’s best-known Nazis, Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, who shared Brons’s penchant for fancy dress. After following Tyndall into the National Front and becoming its parliamentary candidate in Harrogate, Brons had some difficulty in interesting the genteel, all-white electorate in his rants about “the immigration problem”. So, as the Eye noted in 1974 (issue 318), he resorted instead to “muttering dark threats and imprecations against the all-powerful ‘Jewish bankers’.” A decade later, he and an NF colleague scared several old ladies out of their wits by shouting “Death to Jews!” while selling party newspapers in Leeds city centre. When asked to desist by PC John Raj, Brons replied: “I am aware of my legal rights. Inferior beings like you probably do not appreciate the principle of free speech.” He was fined £50 for insulting words and behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. Now, a mere 36 years after we first introduced readers to his charms, Brons has at last won an election. As he declared in his victory speech: “Despite the lies, despite the money, despite the misrepresentation, we’ve been able to win through.” You said it, chum! OTHER TOP WESTMINSTER STORIES IN THE LATEST ISSUE: - GLENYS SIGNS IN: Welcome back Mrs Kinnock, who knows a thing or two about expenses scandals, Brussels-style - LABOUR DONORS: Now only the dead want to give money to Gordon Brown and the Pauper’s Party - SHAUN THE CREEP: The irresistible rise of former Tory Shaun Woodward, who’s loyally backed, er, just about everyone - AUDITING THE AUDITOR: MPs find the ideal firm to audit their expenses (the one that helped set up the dodgy system in the first place!) - CAMERON’S CASHIERS: The City money behind our Dave, who wants to give “power to the people” | ||||||
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