Picture This?

One of the most fascinating publications on the political fringe is Heritage and Destiny, published by the Lancashire based fascists of the England First Party.

What is remarkable about Heritage and Destiny, and indeed the EFP, is the huge number of peope in its ranks who have been expelled from other far-right organisations for being agents provocateurs, or have jumped from such groups before they were pushed.
This list is headed by EFP activist Peter Rushton, expelled from the BNP for working with the 'anti-fascist' magazine Searchlight, and Heritage and Destiny Editor Mark Cotterill, who managed to scuttle Nick Griffin's 'American Friends of the BNP' operation, before heading back to the UK with a welter of accusations flying around his ears. Step down a rung in this milieu and you are still tripping over spooks - it was interesting to spot Alan Winder, late of a very fishy attempt to set up a British KKK, hamming it up recently in the pages of Heritage and Destiny.

The political line in H&D is at least consistent. It concentrates on transparent shit stirring in the BNP. If the BNP were marching round waving swatstikas, they would complain it was too extreme. When the BNP denies it is a fascist party and tries to paint itself as a moderate nationalist party, they complain it is not extreme enough.
Issue 30 contains a great editorial from Mr Cotterill himself. In the September 2007 copy of the BNP's Identity magazine, a somewhat short-tempered Nick Griffin made the bizarre claim that Searchlight editor Nick Lowles, and Heritage and Destiny deputy editor Peter Rushton are one and the same person. Cotterill not surprisingly spotted an open goal:

"Several nationalists known to Mr Griffin have seen photographs of Nick Lowles, who has spoken to numerous public meetings. It is quite clear that he is not the same person as our assistant editor."

He is of course right, although saying something is so is not the same as proving it so.

But there is one simple way to sort the issue out once and for all. Heritage and Destiny could of course publish one of these pictures of Nick Lowles, who is (ostensibly at least) a political opponent of theirs. What's the betting that even if they had a pile of pictures of Mr Lowles, they would never publish any of them until he had been exposed elsewhere?

Searchlight's Alan Winder, minus his white pillow case.