Hate by Matthew Collins

Author:Matthew Collins [Matthew Collins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849542029
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

In 1990, the IRA bombed Eltham, not at all far from where I was living and, by now, drinking heavily with all of the other white trash. Unlike us, the BNP could not produce an immediate response, while within hours we had bundles of Paddy-baiting leaflets ripe for dispersing in this part of south London. Eltham was ripe. The pub culture was underage and aggressive, very working class and right wing, in a Nikes and Ford Escort sort of way. A couple of times we clashed with some blacks in McDonald’s and held a stormy paper sale in Eltham High Street, driving up and down with a mobile unit to pick out trouble makers in the area. It was the most profitable paper sale I ever went on with the NF, other than at Stamford Bridge or Brick Lane. We camped out in the area on and off for a couple of weeks, but clearly these were not the sort of people Anderson wanted in the party. People actually gave us the Nazi salute as a sign of approval. Because he lived there, Mr X invited a few people around to his house for a private get-together. Blackham drove himself and another member over to ‘X’s’ house, where Ian Anderson was to address a private meeting, outlining his vision for a new Britain.

By now, the UDA magazine Ulster was part and parcel of the NF and BNP’s literature. The BNP bought their copies in bulk from Belfast, while NF members procured theirs from agents on the mainland for a ten pence discount. There was something quite exciting about clasping the new copy of Ulster. Who were the men that printed it? Had my copy been stuffed into an envelope by a killer, licked and taken to the post office by him? It was a tame publication, light on rhetoric, deep on history and tradition and cartoons. The pages of offerings were always crying foul about some betrayal against them but the UDA seemed almost incapable of any deep political comment, simply because they were not sure how they should stand politically; the UDA seemed marginalised and lacking a direction, constantly under fire from within its own community.

The one thing the UDA did now want, however, was English members. Having undergone a leadership change in the late 1980s, the UDA was now under younger and even less responsible leadership. They no longer cared that their supporters on the mainland were a bunch of perverts, dreamers and grasses. Their illegal alter ego – the UFF – had been trying to match the IRA bullet for bullet and was constantly cap-in-hand for money and support from mainland sympathisers. In England they experienced some support in Liverpool and the West Midlands, though their active campaigning was almost solely on the back of the NF and BNP, who sided with the grossly outnumbered loyalist activists in Britain.

It was not unusual for UDA members in Britain to be lumped in with fascist supporters of those organisations.

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