Video Nazi!

By James Orr | Sunday, 16 May 2004 Source: News of the World

NEWS OF THE WORLD INVESTIGATES: Secret film exposes sickening racist truth about BNP's Euro candidate and hidden shame behind the right-wing party's new 'respectable' image

A SHOCK video today explodes the myth that the British National Party has ditched racism—by exposing one of its leaders as a rampant NAZI.

Bosses claim they have purged extremists as they field candidates in the local and Euro elections on June 10.

But an undercover video of a secret party gathering reveals that is simply a thin veneer to cover their hate-fuelled policies.

And deputy chairman Scott McLean—who is standing as a Euro candidate—is exposed as one of the main cheerleaders of hate.

He is on film brazenly giving fascist SALUTES to cheering pals, leading racist RANTS and being part of a group of fanatics that gathers around a Ku Klux Klan-style flaming CROSS.

McLean, 33—who denies the Jewish Holocaust ever happened—also joins in a song which talks of killing "n*****s".

The BNP boss (pictured top right) is caught on camera at a holiday bolthole in the country with other party members—and even their children.

The mood is set by a sick sign on the front door depicting the silhouette of a black person with a line through it, similar to a no-smoking sign.

And as the evening gathers pace, McLean and his cohorts wallow deeper in their racism.

Fellow BNP member and ex-soldier John Cartwright strums his guitar —and the group launch into a racist version of the 1960s Kenny Rogers hit Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town.

Instead of the correct lyrics, the group sing: "Oh n*****, get the **** out of my town."

Another verse goes: "N*****s are parasites, if you don't go I'll get my gun and put you in the ground.

"Oh n***** get the **** out of my town." Young children listen before they fall asleep in chairs.

On another occasion, two of the gathering appear outside the cottage in the Scottish Highlands and give the Nazi salute.

But what follows is even more sickening—as they chant "Auschwitz" after one of Hitler's most notorious Jewish extermination camps.

A large wooden cross is then set ablaze as a symbol of their hatred.

McLean, a married dad of three, loves to convey a sense of respectability among his neighbours in Barrhead, just outside Glasgow.

He has a luxurious five-bedroom home and his own building firm.

The deputy leader, who rose to power in 2001, is standing as one of the party's candidates in the Scottish Region constituency of the European Parliament.

Violence

He also stood there during the last vote for Brussels representatives—but failed when his party took a paltry 0.38 per cent of the poll.

McLean is at the forefront of attempts to convince the public that the BNP has changed.

The party claims it is against racism and racial violence—and even says on its website: "We don't hate black people...we don't oppose any ethnic group.

"They have a right to their own identity as much as we do."

It adds: 'The BNP feels this country can, and will, only be changed by legal, democratic means."

But despite this facade of openness, McLean still conducts all his correspondence through a series of PO box numbers.

And his choice of company at the holiday hideaway is also revealing.

It included John Cartwright's brother Steve, an ex-member of extremist group Combat 18.

Both Cartwrights have travelled abroad to attend racist rallies.

They were pictured in Germany last August during a pro-Nazi march to celebrate the life of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, who died in 1987.

Last night the BNP ringleaders were condemned as suited "thugs" by the Conservatives' leader in the European Parliament, Johnathan Evans. Referring to the video he said: "This is the true nature of the BNP.

Denounced

"However hard they dress up in suits and pretend otherwise, the BNP has always been a group of thugs dressed up as a political party.

"The idea of these people ending up in political office is horrific." Tory party co-chairman Dr Liam Fox also denounced the BNP.

He said: 'They are poison beneath a veneer of respectability."

Last night, a spokesman for anti-Fascist group Searchlight slammed the horrifying video.

Nick Lowles said: "This proves that the supposed respectability of the BNP is a sham.

"Only in private do they show their true colours—and that is that they are Nazis."