Documentary Description
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.
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