http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Far right targets Scottish community councils en Sun, 31 May 2026 06:46:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21418#post-372157 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:07:35 +0000 gembo 372157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Simon Crane in East Calder and Dave Gardner in Forfar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21418#post-372156 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:32:47 +0000 SRD 372156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The far-right infiltration of British politics may not typically be associated with a debate over a missing bench between a playground and football pitch in Forfar, Angus.</p> <p>Nor is the announcement of a broken road barrier at Kirknewton in West Lothian normally seen as a small step to a state-sanctioned white supremacy.</p> <p>Yet these are the issues at stake for two community councillors belonging to the nascent Homeland Party, which this year splintered from Patriotic Alternative (PA), Britain’s largest far-right white supremacist movement, led by Mark Collett, who once appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Young, Nazi and Proud.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d509cd40-248b-4b74-a927-777ec7624697?" rel="nofollow">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d509cd40-248b-4b74-a927-777ec7624697?</a></p> <p>no paywall: <a href="https://archive.ph/1HmN9" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/1HmN9</a> </p>