Members of the North-West branch of British Movement must have thought they were being rather clever. Just before Xmas they met up in a pub for their regular branch meeting, paraded in their new BM phoenix emblazoned-shirts, then went out stickering streets in the centre of Manchester.
They posted all this online, but hid their faces and offered no clues about the pub where they had gathered.
Carpeted
Well, none that is, except the pub’s very distinctive carpet – which belongs to The Calverts Court Wetherspoon’s pub in Stockport, just a few minutes train ride away from the Manchester city centre streets where they later posted their foul stickers.
Led these days by veteran nazi Stephen Frost, BM is the direct successor to Colin Jordan’s National Socialist Movement of the 1960s. Searchlight ‘mole’ Ray Hill forced the organisation into financial crisis and closure in the 1980s, but it has since been revived by hardline nazi activists.
Last orders?
What the management of The Calvert Court thinks about overt, Hitler-worshipping neo-Nazis like BM meeting up on their premises and parading in their uniform, we do not know. They may not even have noticed it happening.
Nor we do we know how owners JD Wetherspoon themselves feel about the matter. But we are sure that now it has been drawn to their attention they and the local pub management will do something about it.
