October 2023 edition
On Saturday 14th October Australians will go to the polls in order to vote in a plebiscite termed “The Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum”. In a nutshell this vote will be to approve or reject a proposal by the current Australian Labor Party (ALP) government to alter the country’s constitution in order to “recognise indigenous people” and to establish an assembly for them whereby they could lobby the democratically elected Government of Australia.
This proposed saccharine-coated legislation may seem very nice and proper, until it is considered just who the “indigenous people” being given proposed preferential treatment are. They are the Australian Aborigines (a sub-grouping of ethnically Melanesian people) and the Torres Strait Islanders (a separate ethnically Melanesian people, though with some Polynesian ancestral origins). The Australian Aborigines are the most primitive racial grouping on earth (even more primitive than Negroes) who have produced no form of civilisation or advanced scientific achievements whatsoever, and prior to European settlement in Australia did nothing other than roaming around aimlessly in the outback and making primeval daubings on rocks and their skins. They now number less than a million people (only 3.8% of the Australian population) with a high percentage of these being the result of White miscegenation. They are also particularly prone to alcoholism and domestic violence. The Torres Strait Islanders, although somewhat more advanced than the Aborigines, are even less numerous, numbering only just over 65,000 people!
It is often said that the Aborigines were the first Australians, but even though they may have been the first to roam the land this is not accurate. The very name “Australia” was given to the country by British navigators, and all manifestations of infrastructure and development in Australia today are entirely the result White – mainly British – settlement and colonisation. So why therefore is the current ALP government attempting to extend such favouritism towards these primitive people who nature forgot? The answer is that this retrograde proposal is simply another sickening example of the egalitarian mindset which alas has infected the West for the past couple of centuries. It is the Australian equivalent to the way in which Negroes are pampered in North America and South Asians are pampered in Britain!
The current proposals are alas not the first steps taken by egalitarians to destroy the true Australian identity. The Australian National Anthem has already been altered to cater for Aborigine sensitivities, and totally ridiculous Aboriginal “Welcome to our Country” ceremonies now have to take place to suck-up to the pampered “indigenous peoples” prior to all major public and sporting events. Happily most true Australians are contemptuous of these acts of appeasement however, with the word “YOUNG” now being belted out during the National Anthem and the ridiculous Aborigine “Welcome to our Country” ceremony being greeted with sarcasm!
On 6th November 1999 Australians confounded “received wisdom” by decisively voting against earlier socialist proposals to turn the country into a Republic, thus acting as a full-stop to the “politically-correct” 1990s which had caused so much damage throughout the West, and ushering in a far more civilised global era during the first two decades of the 21st century. Now that “wokism” – the successor to the “political correctness” of the 1990s - has reared its ugly head around the West, let us hope that Australians will again vote “No”, and thus vote for sanity in order to put an end to similar retrogressive nonsense!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club maintained the tradition of the “Raising the Flag” ceremony last month, commemoration the first raising of the Union Flag at Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1890, and continued so heroically by Peter Sladden at his manor in Norfolk for 37 years after Rhodesia’s handover to terrorists in 1980. This year’s event was held at Sudbury in Suffolk, a venue chosen because it was the childhood home of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, and proved a great success. The day started with a rendezvous at the “Painters at the Angel” hostelry, a most congenial establishment which served sumptuous food and good ale, and then continued with the unfurling of the BSAP Flag by Glenn Seymour-Hall, a leading official of the BSAP Regimental Association UK Branch, across the road outside the actual house where Sir Leander Starr Jameson lived as a boy. The party then moved on to the former Sudbury Grammar School building where Sir Leander Starr Jameson received his early education, outside which the actual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony took place. Martin Stewart-Whyte acted as Parade Commander this year, with the Union Flag being raised by Alan Williamson, the Rhodesian Flag by Barry Cameron, and the BSAP Flag by Glenn Seymour-Hall. Gary Vincent then read the poem “If” (which had been written by Rudyard Kipling as a tribute to Sir Leander Starr Jameson) followed by the singing of the Rhodesian and British National Anthems, led by Neil Thane. The ceremony concluded with toasts in Sandeman’s Port being raised to the King and Queen and to the immortal memories of Sir Leander Starr Jameson and Peter Sladden, with Nigel Gerrans proposing a further toast to the immortal memories of all those who fought and died for Rhodesia. The party then proceeded to the near-by Sudbury Hive Community Hub, where key-note speeches were given by Stuart Agnew (the former UKIP MEP for the East of England) and by Glenn Seymour-Hall, who told the fascinating and at time moving story about his service in the BSAP, speeches which were followed by a captivating PowerPoint presentation about the life and career of Sir Leander Starr Jameson given by Gary Vincent. Finally the party returned to “Painters at the Angel” for a convivial ending to what had proved a most memorable and inspiring day. (Pictures from this event can be found on the Springbok Club FaceBook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223758731035577).
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The Springbok Club’s trip to see a Rugby match featuring a club with strong South African connections has now had to be put back to later during the season because of preoccupations with the current Rugby World Cup, but plans for the organisation’s annual UDI Day celebration buffet-meeting to be addressed by a prominent expatriate Rhodesian in November are still on course, and full details will be given in next month’s SCN. In December the Springbok Club will be marking the Day of the Vow with a gathering in the Southend area, and the organisation’s 2024 AGM will be held in January.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
A small group of Patriotic Forum members met up with a visiting Australian supporter who was visiting the UK last month. Although we feel it best not to name this Australian supporters as he holds a prominent position in he Australian civil service, we can relay that he was able to tell us a lot of details about the forthcoming “Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum” and other current developments in Australia, and thereby strengthened links and solidarity between supporters from different part of the Commonwealth.
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It is still hoped that the Patriotic Forum will be able to hold an AGM before he end of the year, whereat current vacancies on the organisation’s Executive Committee can be filled, and thereafter to resume regular monthly meetings during 2024.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
As was reported in last month’s issue of the SCN, edition No.43 of The Imperial Patriot has now been published and copies have been circulated to most subscribers around the world, receiving many favourable reactions. We however want to publish edition No.44 in the near future, but before doing this really need to “shift” back-copies as soon as possible. We hope therefore that supporters will consider purchasing bulk quantities of earlier issues to circulate among their friends, colleagues and workmates. Bulk quantities are available at £9.00 for 10 copies, £18.00 for 25 copies, £28.00 for 50 copies or £45.00 for 100 copies. Payments may be made by cheque made payable to “Patriotic Press” and sent to: Patriotic Press, BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K., or by direct bank transfer, the details for which being given at the end of this SCN.
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MESSAGE FROM ANIMAL SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL
We have recently received the following most disturbing report from the Animal Survival International organisation about the threats to wildlife in Nigeria and the “new” South Africa. It reads as follows:-
“We support pangolin projects in Nigeria and South Africa - but critical emergency funds are running dry. An URGENT NEED is to establish a critical care rehabilitation centre.
“Critically endangered pangolins are the most trafficked mammals in the world, with more than ONE MILLION poached over the last decade. The insatiable demand of the illegal wildlife trade has driven all eight species of pangolin to the brink of extinction. Every year, tens of thousands of pangolins are poached and killed for their scales - falsely believed to serve medicinal purposes - and their meat, which is considered a delicacy among the ultra-rich in many Asian countries.
“If we do not act fast and do everything we can to help preserve pangolins, we risk losing these unique creatures for good.
“Animal Survival International (ASI) supports important pangolin projects in Nigeria and South Africa, but our emergency funds for critical operations are running dry. We must ensure that our partners on the ground are ready to respond immediately to any emergency, and that they are well equipped to deal with challenges we may encounter.
“Currently, numerous pangolin smuggling routes operate in and out of Mpumalanga [Eastern Transvaal], South Africa. There are increasing incidences of wildlife trafficking and successful sting operations confiscating the poor creatures – but unfortunately, there are no suitable facilities for treating them.
“There is an URGENT need to establish a rehabilitation and release facility for seized pangolins.
”Our partner, the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in Mpumalanga [Eastern Transvaal], South Africa, plans to do exactly that - and with your support, we will help.
“We work closely with Care for Wild (CFW), a registered wildlife rehabilitation facility and the largest rhino sanctuary in the world, and is the best candidate for the job. CFW has successfully rehabilitated and released nearly one hundred orphaned rhinos. This devoted team has the expertise to extend their care to vulnerable and threatened pangolins - but they desperately need the resources to do it.
“If we can raise $10,000 (£8,445), we will provide funds to start equipping the sanctuary with the tools they urgently need to deal with injured, traumatized, and dying pangolins. Your donation will save lives and ensure healthy pangolins are released back into protected areas.
“Pangolins are extremely vulnerable to stress. Most die within six months of capture or rescue, which is why it is SO important that they are rehabilitated fast and returned to the wild as quickly as possible. During the rehabilitation process, pangolins are as vulnerable as newborn infants. They require intensive, round-the-clock care if they are to make a full recovery following the physical and psychological damage inflicted on them by poaching.
“Rescuing individual pangolins from traffickers, rehabilitating them, and releasing them into protected areas with high-tech tracking equipment is vitally important in the fight to save the species.
”Extinction is looming, and every pangolin life is critical to the survival of the entire species. Without your support, we will see more and more cases of rescued pangolins succumbing to their injuries from the sickeningly cruel illegal wildlife trade. Please find it in your heart to donate as much as you possibly can today so that we can work alongside Care for Wild in this critical rehabilitation project.
“Saving animals and the planet, “Campaign Director, Animal Survival International.
“P.S. It is estimated that one pangolin is poached from the wild in Africa every five minutes. International trade in pangolins is prohibited by terms in the global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreement. Yet, trafficking continues unabated. We cannot bring the illegal wildlife trade to an end overnight, but with your help, we CAN get rescued pangolins the care and protection they desperately need to live and thrive in the wild. Please, donate generously today.”
To contact Animal Survival International, or to make a donation to help their campaign to save pangolins, visit their web-site at :-
https://animalsurvival.org
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THE WORLD CUPS
At the moment both the Rugby Union and the Cricket Mens World Cups are taking place. The fact that they are both taking place at the same time is highly unfortunate, as it means that sports-lovers have split-loyalties about which matches to view. Surely it should not be too much to ask the administrators of all major sports to liaise and to co-ordinate the times of all their major competitions, so that no such clashes of schedules occur again.
But the clash of schedules is not the only criticism which we have regarding the organisation of both current Mens World Cups, as both clearly do not have enough national sides participating. Rugby Union is a growing sport, particularly in the more civilised parts of the world. At the moment the Rugby Union World Cup consists of only 20 teams comprising four groups of five, but with five being an odd number this means that the group-stages are uneven and cumbersome. Encouragingly some of the emerging Rugby Union nations have performed relatively well in this year’s tournament, notably Chile, Portugal and Uruguay, but alas a number of the better sides haven’t even qualified, namely Canada, Spain and the United States. If the final stage of the tournament could be expanded to 24 teams comprising four groups of six then it would be fairer and both of these problems would be eliminated. The Cricket World Cup grew steadily from only eight teams at the inaugural tournament in 1975 to twelve in 1999, fourteen in 2003 and sixteen in 2007. In spite of administrative difficulties and organisational problems during the final stages, the 2007 competition, which was held in the West Indies, proved by far the mot exciting. This was basically because of its structure, comprising four groups of four, and with Ireland emerging as the most memorable side of the tournament, beating both Pakistan and Bangladesh and thus qualifying unexpectedly for the final stages. Subsequent competitions saw the number of competing nations slowly reduced for some inexplicable reason however, until for this year’s tournament they are back to only 10 teams – with several top sides, most notably Ireland and the West Indies, failing to qualify! Public interest in this year’s competition has therefore declined accordingly, so we therefore call upon the Cricket authorities to increase the number of competing teams back to the 2007 level of 16 for the 2027 tournament.
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MORE PROBLEMS FOR THE BBC
In edition No.42 of The Imperial Patriot an article appeared entitled “The End for the B.B.C.?”. Since this article was written two further problems have engulfed the B.B.C., meaning that its eventual demise now seems even more likely. Firstly another of their “star” performers has been accused of Savile-like sexual molestations, namely Russell Brand, and a programme which they have made themselves about the perverted activities of Jimmy Savile has been severely criticised as it made no mention of how the Corporation had “pulled the plug” on an item produced by their own Newsnight team which had exposed Savile’s crimes! Another interesting facet of this docudrama is that the actor chosen to play Savile, Steve Coogan, revealed himself as a strong and open supporter of the extreme-left Labour Party leader at the time of the 2017 General Election, Jeremy Corbyn. Perhaps it is appropriate that an actor who supports depraved political beliefs should be chosen to play a depraved TV performer!
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SEARCH SERVICES FOR THOSE SEEKING LOST RELATIVES
Find any South African, even those who have emigrated. We also search Botswana, Namibia and ex-Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Please use the search request form at :-
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Also check the list of South African expatriates/emigrants web-sites, which can be found at :-
http://www.bellemodel.biz/uruguay/uruguay.php?id=uruguay_from_springbk
and
http://www.bellemodel.biz/emails/expatriates/toplist_expatriates.php?id=toplist_expatriates_from_springbk
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BOOK OFFERS
“LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED JAMES TOMLINSON: MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN PIONEER AND BSAP OFFICER" is now available at Amazon.com, and can be shipped to anywhere in the world. This book contains excerpts from Lieut. Tomlinson's writings detailing his experiences as a member of the BSAP in Southern Rhodesia, where he rose from the rank of an ordinary trooper to retire as the commanding officer. It also includes the personal story of Majaqaba Ncube, a man who was enslaved by Lobengula when his entire village was massacred by the chief's soldiers. After he escaped, Lieut. Tomlinson saved him from certain death and gave him a job. They lost contact and were reunited after 45 years, when Majaqaba presented Lieut. Tomlinson with an earthenware jar.
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CREST PUBLISHING BOOKS
The latest book published by Crest Publishing is entitled: “BOWLS - QUIRKS, CHIRPS AND ANECDOTES". This is not an instruction manual but rather a cheerful, humourous and sometimes controversial chronicle about the game and its history worldwide. Written to celebrate 40 years in the sport by the author, Glenn MacAskill, it should be of interest to all bowlers and other sports enthusiasts.
For more information about all books published, or to make an order, please contact Crest Publishing at: P.O.Box, 4178, Honeydew, Johannesburg, 2040, South Africa, e-mail: glennallanmacaskill@gmail.com, or visit the Crest Publishing web-site at: www.crestpublishing.co.za. Special discounts are available to ex-servicemen, Rhodies and Springboks!
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"THE SAINTS" – a unique documentary in support of the book on the brief history of the RLI.
DVD available along with other premium titles of historical interest from Msasa Enterprises. Visit www.rhodesianvideos.co.za or write to msasasa@mweb.co.za for more information. UK contact telephone: 07415 753 340.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.299: Mr. B.M.J. GROBLER of Clocolan.
Mr. B.M.J. Grobler came from Clocolan in the Free State, and became a subscriber to the original S.A.Patriot magazine during the early 1980s. Very little is known about him, though it is believed that he is no relation to Charmaine Grobler, who was featured in this section of the February 2009 Edition of the SCN. His copy of a recent edition of The Imperial Patriot has just been returned to us however, as his P.O.Box has evidently been closed. As there are still quite a few editions to go before his subscription expires we are therefore eager to discover what has happened to him, and whether he has any new postal address.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
During his excellent speech at the meeting following this year’s “Raising of the Flag” ceremony, Glenn Seymour-Hall told everyone about an important FaceBook page which he helps maintain called “The Fallen”. This site, which is updated on a daily basis, contains a Roll of Honour of all those members of the Rhodesian Combined Forces who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defence of their country and civilisation between 1966 and 1981. It can be accessed at :-
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=The%20Fallen
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
HAIL THE MEN FROM THE NORTH!
Sir,
My strong sentiments about Rhodesia stems from my childhood days at a boarding school for missionaries’ children, Sakeji School in Northern Rhodesia, for two years in 1957 & 1958, where scripture and history were my favourite subjects, but where I unfortunately experienced being teased by a crowd of senior boys and had a strict headmaster to contend with! The one main happy childhood memories were when a smiling Bristol Official, either a governor of Northern Rhodesia or a Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland would visit, we’d sing the National Anthem of “God Save the Queen” and get half a holiday! A symbol of liberation as opposed to oppression I experienced! That’s why when I experienced South Africa becoming a Republic outside of the Commonwealth and I saw how the “Loyalist North”, Rhodesia was treated, I was very angry! Saw the same parallel with Northern Ireland as opposed to the Irish Republic!
The worst “enemies” of our beloved mother country are within, not without!
Yours etc.,
Alexander Knox-Wylie, Bath, Somerset, U.K.
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OBITUARIES
ROGER WHITTAKER
It was with much sadness that we learnt of the recent death of Roger Whittaker. Roger Henry Brough Whittaker was born in 1936 at Nairobi, Kenya, then a vibrant British colony. His parents had both been born in the UK, but were attracted by the prospect of colonial life and moved to Kenya where they opened a grocery business. Roger himself was educated at the prestigious Prince of Wales School in Nairobi where his talent for music quickly became apparent, and he sang in the Nairobi Cathedral Choir. He served his National Service in the Kenya Regiment where he displayed great bravery in action fighting against the Mau Mau terrorists. After completing his National Service he moved south in order to study medicine at UCT, but then moved to the UK where he studied zoology and marine biology at the University of North Wales in Bangor where he was awarded a BSc degree.
In spite of his academic successes Roger Whittaker chose a career I music, and this proved a wise move. He signed his first recording contract in 1962, and for the next fifty years toured, recorded and made regular media appearances. His relaxed singing style and unique brand of whistling made him highly popular, not only in Britain but also in Germany and the Nordic countries, with whom he seemed to have a particular affinity. But he never forgot his colonial roots, and indeed many of his greatest hits featured Kenyan themes, most notably “My land is Kenya”. He furthermore took a most praiseworthy interest in preserving African wildlife, donating many of his royalties from recordings and concerts to efforts to save the Black Rhino by establishing sanctuaries in Kenya.
This present writer once had the privilege of participating with him on a London Weekend Television show, and although this meeting was only very brief he impressed greatly with his down-to-earth manner and the fact that he didn’t seem to have any of the “airs and graces” usually associated with leading showbiz personalities. Roger Whittaker was a true credit to the British Empire, and our sincerest condolences are extended to his widow Natalie, to his five children and twelve grandchildren, and to the rest of his family.
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RONNIE MacKINNON
It was with extreme sorrow that we learnt of the recent death of Ronnie MacKinnon. Ronald “Ronnie” MacKinnon was one of the greatest centre-halves which Scottish Association Football has ever produced. Born at Glasgow in 1940 into a staunchly Loyalist family with roots in the Hebrides, he was a natural Rangers supporter during his boyhood days, and after playing as a winger for a couple of junior clubs he signed professionally for Rangers, making his first team debut in 1961. Once established at Ibrox he was persuaded to change his position to that of centre-half, his size seeming to make this the idealist position for him. This proved an inspired change, for in 1965 he was called up into the Scotland squad to win the first of his eventual 28 caps. He was a one-club man as far as Scottish professional football was concerned, playing 473 times for Rangers and winning a Scottish League Championship medal twice, a Scottish Cup medal four times and a Scottish League Cup medal on three occasions.
After injury forced him to retire from the Scottish professional game in 1972 he moved to South Africa where he played a season for Durban United, before becoming a car salesman in the city. His love for Rangers never ceased however, and he made contact with the Rangers F.C. Supporters Association Durban Branch, being guest speaker at a branch dinner in the mid-1980s where he gave an eloquent speech in which he emphasised how important it was for any club to have a good goal-keeper, a good centre-forward – and a good centre-half! It was at this dinner that this present writer first met him, with a number of other friendly meet-ups following, during which it became obvious that he was a true and unwavering Unionist, who also viewed his kith-and-kin in South Africa as his fellow-countrymen. He was featured in the “Where are they Now?” section of the June 2011 Edition of the SCN, through which we heard that he had retired to the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where his mother’s ancestral roots lay. This information turned out to be correct, and furthermore we learnt that he was taking a keen and active role in the Lewis and Harris Rangers Supporters Club.
Ronnie MacKinnon was a great footballer and a steadfast Loyalist. Our sincerest sympathies are extended to his widow Elizabeth and to the rest of his family.
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THE CURSE OF SPRINGBOK
It was with great joy and relief that we recently learnt of the death of Sam “The Swerling Dervish” Swerling. Sam Swerling was undoubtedly one of the most obnoxious and antagonistic individuals who our movement has ever had the misfortune to come into contact with.
This present writer first came into contact with this creature when invited to attend a planning meeting of the broader patriotic movement shortly after returning to the UK from South Africa in early 1991. I was greeted in a most friendly manner by all the attendees – some of whom I had known before I emigrated, some of whom I had been in correspondence with whilst based in South Africa, and some whom I never knew before – except for one unknown character wearing a dull navy blue overcoat who sat in a corner and continually eyed me up and down without saying a word, but constantly seeming to scowl at me! That character of course was Swerling! When I enquired about who he was I was told that he was “the man who never smiles”. Subsequently I discovered a lot more about this strange character. He had been elected a Conservative councillor for Westminster City Council in 1978, but was not re-adopted as candidate at the following round of municipal elections, apparently because he had annoyed and antagonised both his local Conservative association and his fellow-members of the Conservative council caucus! He had also once been an official in the Conservative Monday Club, but had then been expelled from this right-wing pressure group after allegedly being involved in a trouble-making attempt to stage a coup to remove the leading officials of this organisation.
Nothing further was heard of Swerling until he mysteriously started turning up at Swinton Circle meetings during the early 2000s, as he evidently had some form of connection to the then Swinton Circle Chairman, Allan Robertson (see obituary in the March 2020 SCN). Robertson actually invited Swerling to address a couple of Swinton Circle meetings, during which he predicted that David Cameron would never become Prime Minister and that UKIP would win the Bromley and Chislehurst by-election. Both predictions proved spectacularly incorrect of course. So much for Swerling’s claim to be an astute political observer!
But it was Swerling’s antics when attending Swinton Circle meetings addressed by other speakers which caused the most concern. He would continually heckle – indeed insult – guest speakers who he disagreed with, even if only slightly. He also caused the organisation great embarrassment by praising Mussolini and Gen.Franco, and by smearing the memory of John Kingsley Read (a leading British patriotic activist from the 1970s who was held in high regard by several Swinton Circle members). It was however his disruptions at a Swinton Circle meeting which was addressed by Lord Willoughby de Broke which proved the most disturbing. Not only did he rudely insult Lord Willoughby de Broke in a most irrational aggressive manner, but he also attacked the loyal Swinton Circle supporter Dennis Delderfield – a staunch monarchist who was in the audience - in a most vile personal manner after he had praised the nobility of the then current monarch, Queen Elizabeth!
The rude and unacceptable behaviour of Swerling was discussed by Swinton Circle committee members after these disturbing incidents, and it was decided that Swerling and two other individuals who had similarly disrupted meetings and attacked guest speakers in the past (one of whom, Ian Anderson, now also being dead) should be barred from attending future Swinton Circle meetings. At a subsequent notorious Swinton Circle meeting held in July 2008 Swerling and the two other barred-attendees turned up in a co-ordinated manner together with another extremely controversial character however, and when he was asked to leave as he had not been invited and was not welcome Swerling flew into a childish rage and started foaming at the mouth! (We were subsequently informed that he had been known to foam at the mouth on a previous occasion!). [It was later discovered that this gate-crashing of a Swinton Circle meeting was all part of a plot to usurp control of the organisation with the assistance of the weak-willed Robertson – but that is another story!].
Happily our movement never had any further connection with Swerling, though he was for a short while associated with Robertson’s still-born breakaway “London Swinton Circle”. We did hear however that he subsequently joined the far-Right “British National Party”, but was then – surprise, surprise – expelled from this organisation for some unknown reason!
We have been told that “Rejoicing in a passing is not a very nice attribute”, and as a general maxim we would fully agree with this observation – but we feel sure that most readers will agree after reading about all the upsetting and trouble-making attacks which we and others received from Swerling, which made our lives such a misery, that he is a valid exception to this rule!
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