Continuing the BNP outing theme,
Wales on Sunday carries an interesting account of the activities of another West Wales ‘organiser’ who has run foul of football clubs around the UK.
Roger Phillips, who runs Patriotic Products Ltd has had been red carded for selling "an extensive range of nationalistic tat and clothing, including golliwog badges with the names of clubs such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea".
The WoS report that Chelsea had confirmed they had started legal action against Phillips last month but found the offensive items had been removed before action was required.
Believed to be a leading figure in the Welsh Defence League - aka football supporting fascists - Phillips appeared in an S4C documentary broadcast in June in which he stated he would flout employment laws to avoid employing Muslims.
Besides having his own Facebook site, he also regularly contributes to the West Wales Patriot blogsite which is edited by former police officer and fellow BNP organiser Mike Green. For an outfit that is apparently top-heavy in organisers, the site is a bit of a mess although it carries the intriguing poll question “Would you vote for tratorious Plaid (their spelling) now you know the truth?” The poll is now closed, by the way.
A similarly muddled thread runs through a video of Phillips spouting entirely fabricated claims about eastern European domination of the local jobs market. But there is also a moment of esoteric humour where he brandishes a Polish language newspaper on sale in a Gwendraeth Valley store as further evidence of infiltration - clearly not realising that the main headline is about a call by the right-wing nationalist organisation
Mlodziez Wszechpolska for the EU to be dismantled.
Phillips does however touch on a chilling element of truth in his vid by pointing out that the hate-list he manages to plausibly engender is not rooted in the disillusionment associated with English inner cities but an emerging entropy in rural West Wales which could allow the BNP to be seen as an alternative rather than an abberation. It is a trend that is in danger of increasing whilst other political parties continue to see LCOs and expenses as the only issues worth debating.