Gregory Lauder-Frost exposed: The Tory fringe group leader with Nazi sympathies

[oldironside]

The right-winger whose association with Jacob Rees-Mogg caused the senior Conserative MP great embarrassment this week has added to concerns about his group’s relationship with the Tory party – by launching a personal attack on the mother of Stephen Lawrence as “anti-English” and a “nobody”, as more damaging revelations emerged about his past.

Gregory Lauder-Frost, the vice-president of the Traditional Britain Group, claimed the decision to award a peerage to the mother of the murdered teenager was an example of a modern fashion for “filling the House of Lords up with spivs”.

Mr Lauder-Frost and his organisation were a little-noticed Tory fringe group until the website Liberal Conspiracy revealed that Mr Rees-Mogg had been guest speaker at one of its dinners – and highlighted some of its questionable views.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gregory-lauderfrost-exposed-the-tory-fringe-group-leader-with-nazi-sympathies-8755093.html

Quite an entertaining read, really. He comes across as a combination of Alf Garnett and the Major from Fawlty Towers, although I suspect neither of them would have stolen 100 grand from a Health Trust.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. What charming views on World War Two

"The Poles asked for it from 1919 onwards. It was Britain and France who made it a world war, not Hitler."

"Basically if you did not want to be bombed you should not have declared war on a country (Germany) who had no quarrel with you."

I've seen this position from a few (British) fascists online - that Poland deserved to be invaded, because it was a minor country that should have been subservient to its naturally more powerful neighbour, and that Britain was doing the wrong thing by defending it. They then tend to start fantasising about how marvellous a greater German Reich would have been if we hadn't distracted it - it could have attacked the Soviet Union with its full power (that's a fight they say we should have joined, on Germany's side, of course), and when someone reminds them of the genocide of Jews and more this involves, they just say "Stalin killed people too, you know". They won't say it openly, but I suspect they like the idea of genocide.

[oldironside]

2. There's a surprising amount of it about.

I spend a fair bit of time on AlternateHistory.com and, even though any attempt at spreading that sort of ideology is banned, it's not hard to read between the lines of some posts and see where their true allegiances lie.