Dispatches reporter David Modell films a remarkable six months spent in
the questionable company of Mark Collett, leader of the youth wing of
the British National Party, and reveals the true nature of a party
trying to reinvent itself and broaden its appeal. A rising star of the
party, Collet reveals to Modell his deeply held Nazi sympathies. This
despite the party's claim it no longer has any association with Nazism.
It's
clear why the BNP want intelligent young men like Mark, a university
graduate. BNP leader Nick Griffin tells Dispatches that Collett is a
potential leader of the party.
But Modell is interested in
trying to determine what motivates a bright young man to throw in his
lot with a party which will make him reviled in public.
Modell
has little in common with his subject and finds himself taking an
exception to some of Collett's interests and occupations - which range
through rabid anti-Semitism ('Jews aren't white') to explaining how he
likes to "break" people, in particular his ex girlfriend.