Marriage of convenience and hatred.

Watmough (Glasses) in Heywood at the weekend

When John “Snowy” Shaw, leader of the North West Infidels recently revealed he and his tin pot organisation would be prepared to work with any group of “patriots” he set the bar really low.

This weekend saw The Infidels return to Heywood, Rochdale to support a demonstration against alleged paedophiles called by their new found friends The National Front.

But the NF weren’t the only chums that met up with Snowy at the weekend.

Snowy has found a new ally in Kevin Watmough, veteran Neo Nazi and operator of the Redwatch website.

Redwatch publishes photographs of, and personal information about, alleged far left and anti-fascist activists. It typically targets activists in political parties, trade unions and the media. Some people appearing on the site have been victims of violence and intimidation.

Watmough has been an active Nazi since the age of 14 and has been a member of just about every far right outfit to have existed in the UK.

He now runs the miniscule British Peoples Party along with the rather odd Todmorden hillbilly Dave Jones.

Watmough was close to the convicted Nazi terrorist and paedophile Martyn Gilleard who was jailed in 2008 after nail bombs were found under his bed in Goole, East Yorkshire. Gilleard was sentenced to 11 years for terrorism offences and five years following the discovery of 39,000 indecent images of children at his flat. Gilleard was the Goole organiser for Watmough’s BPP.

Quite what Snowy hopes to gain from Watmough isn’t clear as he has very little to offer, but Watmough will see the Infidels as potential recruits into the ranks of his dying political party.