Miskin Man

Perhaps a bit of elaboration on the "bother" they caused might enlighten.

I don't wnat to get too bogged down with long accounts but this is the basic story.

A new chap appeared on the scene with a genuine interest in traditional music, in particular English traditional song. He seemed very tentative at first but I persuaded him to get more involved and he eventually started to sing; not great but competent and showing a good understanding of the material.

Once in, he turned out to be a good organiser and ran a number of events financed by his local council. He got some traditional music into his daughter's primary school. He had some over romanticised ideas about the golden age of Anglo-Saxon England and professed to be a worshipper of Odin but that just seemd to be harmless eccentricity. Politics was never mentioned. We thought he was a useful addition to the scene.

Then he blew it. He announced himself to a rather random list of people as the regional spokesman for The Steadfast Trust in a press pack that included an emphasis on the importance of the North West European gene pool and rants against immigration.

I hoped that the right had just latched on to a naive enthusiast who might prove useful to them and I tried to persuade him of the error of his ways but to no avail. I later found he was well in with right wing figures and had articles published in BNP publications.

When my arguments failed, I made sure that everybody who needed to know did so and that he knew that they knew. He hasn't been seen much since although he did run one succesful St George's Day event.

Bryan Creer