Rugby scrum

Sonia Gable | Friday, 13 October 2006 Source: Searchlight

The BNP's singing councillor Colin Auty, who sits for Dewsbury East, was invited with his wife as a VIP to Dewsbury Rugby League club on Sunday 10 September when the club was awarded a trophy for ending the season top of the second division. The invitation came because the club's ground falls within Auty's ward.

This gave Auty a dilemma as the Rugby club beanfeast clashed with the BNP's very own clay pigeon shoot elsewhere in the county. Where to go?

Wherever he went, we hope others present were not subjected to a performance of "Don't say you're English", which Auty sang at the BNP's Red, White, Blue festival in August. Auty claimed he found the lyrics on a scrap of paper left behind by the failed BNP Rotherham candidate Marlene Guest at a gig that Auty played in Nottingham. No doubt she thought Auty was in desperate need of some better songs.