Hostilities show no sign of abating between the principal rivals for leadership of the neo-Nazi movement, Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative and new kid on the block, Alek Yerbury of the National Rebirth Party.

It is barely more than a week since they locked horns in an online debate over future strategy for the movement. You can read about that here: https://searchlightmagazine.com/2024/07/bungle-in-the-rumble-mark-collett-and-alek-yerbury-trade-blows-in-fash-fight/…

Now things threaten to get even more acrimonious. Collett has announced that PA’s annual ‘White Lives Matter’ jolly will this year take the form of a demonstration outside Hull prison, where their race martyr hero Sam Melia is currently banged up. The event, says Collett, will also highlight the ‘plight’ of other PA members like James Allchurch and James Costello, also rightly jailed for race hate offences.

“This” he says, “is an event that EVERYONE can get involved in!”

Well, not quite everyone. Widely considered to have bested Collett in the recent debate, where he accused the PA man of encouraging white flight to racially-pure communities and thus “telling white working-class people in our big cities is that there’s nothing we can do to help you” Yerbury is now rubbishing the idea of the prison demo.

So far he has said nothing publicly but is telling supporters not to attend as it will serve absolutely no purpose, and certainly do nothing to get Melia released. He is also suggesting privately that if Collett and Co had spent some of the £100k they raised on the back of Melia’s trial to get him a better legal team, he might not have ended up serving the sentence he has.

The PA leadership is already spitting tacks that Yerbury came off best in the debate, at times making Collett look a fool. This latest treasonous act will do nothing to improve relations. Yerbury knows that. And it seems he doesn’t really care.

Picture: In happier times, Sam Melia with Alek Yerbury.