He was also inducted into the Leader Guard, which served both as McLaughlin's personal corps of bodyguards and as the party's top fighters. Nicky Crane joined the British Movement (BM) in the late 1970s, and by 1980, he had become the BM organiser for Kent. He worked for the protection agency Gentle Touch, and was able to shrug off any connection with the London gay scene as just part of his security work.

A lot of people that I did used to hang around with, they did sort of like hate us," he said in 1992 - "us" meaning gay men. Each featured the letters L and G on either side of a Celtic cross, the British Movement's answer to the swastika. Archive footage of their concerts shows Donaldson barking neo-Nazi lyrics as he loomed above Crane who stood, arms folded, at the front of the stage.Firstly, homosexuality was indelibly associated with effeminacy by the far right, and Crane was the very opposite of effeminate. During the early days, he used to unload mail from the mail boat into Thomas and Percy's mail vans, for them to deliver all over the island. For this act, he was convicted of unlawfully fighting and making an affray, and given a suspended sentence. On the programme, broadcast on 29 July 1992, Crane and various other homosexuals explained why they were attracted to the skinhead scene. In 1993, Crane was dead, Donaldson died in a car crash and the British National Party (BNP) won its first council seat in Millwall, east London.

Series 12 - Steady Eddie ( faceless, cameo), Rosie's Funfair Special ( faceless, cameo), Henry Gets it Wrong ( faceless, cameo) Heave Ho Thomas! The party would try to rebrand itself as respectable and peaceful - a strategy continued, with varying success, under the leadership of Nick Griffin. During the early days, he used to unload mail from the mail boat into Percy's mail vans to deliver all over the Island of Sodor.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.