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Thread #113211   Message #2497432
Posted By: mandotim
19-Nov-08 - 04:14 AM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
An aside; re Ruth Archer's comment about the BNP membership list; it's on wikileaks if anyone wants to look. I couldn't resist, and discovered a bit of savage irony. In 1936 my paternal grandfather organised a protest about a march by Oswald Moseley's fascist Blackshirts through my home town of Oldham. This culminated in a conflict, and 100 or so uniformed Blackshirts being thrown out of town by 25 or so working men (plus a couple of off-duty policemen). I wrote a song about it, and it's a proud moment in the history of my family, so imagine my surprise to discover that there is a BNP activist living in my grandfather's old house. The world turns...
Tim