"The BNP are racist, anti-semetic, homophobic (wonder how many closeted cases there are in the BNP?)"

Ollie. I was just wondering that myself. Whilst I am totally opposed to homophobia, even when applied to gay members of the far right, I'm beginning to wonder if the BNP ever came to power, whether it would end up exterminating a large segment of its own membership.

First of all, it's well known that Martin Webster - not a BNP member, granted, but the one time second in command of the National Front - is gay. It's also well known that he claims to have had a gay relationship with Nick Griffin. Griffin denies it of course, but he would wouldn't he.

Then I was reading a BBC news report a while ago about an MI5 mole who managed to infiltrate the National Front. According to the report, homosexuality is extremely prevalent among the far right, and said mole got a lot of his intelligence by sleeping with male fascists.

Then just yesterday I learned that Eoghan O'Duffy, pre-war leader of the Irish blueshirt fascist movement was also a closet homosexual.

None of this is very conclusive of course. But in the cases of Webster and O'Duffy and any others like them, could it be that that their identification with fascism has some psychological derivation from their homosexuality?

IE., I'm wondering if such indivduals turn to fascism as a way of overcompensating for their self perceived failure to measure up to what they regard as 'normal' standards of decency.

BTW., a chilling note. Although the Third Reich ended up exterminating between ten and fifteen thousand homosexuals, official policy was to quote "re-educate" them. BNP policy is to quote "reform" homosexuals and the congenitally disabled. Reforming with a gas chamber, I rather think.