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A WELL-KNOWN neo-Nazi in the UK, who was an organiser for the far-right National Front in the 1980s, has come out as gay and has opened up about his Jewish heritage.
Speaking to Channel 4 News, Kevin Wilshaw said that he had been violent in the past and had seen instances where Jewish and gay people had been abused.
“It turned my stomach,” he said. “I rejected that, I pushed it to the back of my mind.”
Speaking at far-right rallies as recently as the beginning of this year, Wilshaw was also a member of the British National Party (BNP) and had contacts with groups such as the Racial Volunteer Force.
Wilshaw said that while his mother was part-Jewish, he had written on an application form to join the National Front that he hated “the Jews”.
Now though, he said: “That term ‘the Jews’ is the global faceless mass of people you can’t personalise it, not individuals. That’s the generalisation that leads to six million people being deliberately murdered.
Even though you end up being a group of people that through their own extreme views are cut off from society, you do have a sense of comradeship in that you’re a member of a group that’s being attacked by other people.
Wilshaw admitted that being a Nazi who is gay, and who has a Jewish background, was a contradiction.
“On one or two occasions in the recent past, I’ve actually been the recipient of the very hatred of the people I want to belong to,” he said. “If you’re gay it is acceptable in society but with these group of people it’s not acceptable, and I found on one or two occasions when I was suspected of being gay I was subjected to abuse.
You have other members leading National Front who are overtly gay. And nobody could see the contradiction of it that you have an overtly gay person leading a homophobic organisation. [It] makes no sense.
Now, Wilshaw says that he wants to “hurt” extremists because he feels “appallingly guilty” about his past.
“This is also a barrier to me having a relationship with my own family,” he said. “I want to get rid of it, it’s too much of a weight.”
Wilshaw added that he feared reprisals as “one or two” would “see it as betrayal”.
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I’m a partner who became a dishwasher
Mow that is what I call a community. Congratulations one and all
A KP was always referred to as a pot washer..it’s only when Head chefs and restaurant owners respect the job they do and pay them that respect will they ever understand “All” the cogs that makes a restaurant succeed. Well done Noma.
* deserve
Anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen will tell you a good KP is worth two decent chefs.
Sonko Dishwasher. He should trade mark that and license the name out to a leading manufacturer.
he doesnt look a day over 30
Doesn’t look a day over 30…that’s the fairy liquid…soft on the hands
Fake news
Absolutely, restaurant that needs publicity for rebranding (and a new dishwasher as current dishwasher is getting old) comes up with cunning plan
So cynical. Best restaurant in the world probably has a waiting list doubt they need advertise. Plus giving away 33% of the company, hardly a publicity stunt
It doesn’t actually say equal ownership anywhere, so the truth could be a long way from 33%. You could give him 0.1% of the place, and he’d still be a co-owner
Wow such an amazing story. I’ll have a tan in a few weeks as well.
More leftist drivel. Look at this hardworking dishwasher who was refused entry to the UK by racists!
Your an idiot for going off the subject, it’s about what Noma did, not politics.
Very much is about politics.
Clearly you have no common sense, a business man gives his most loyal staff a reward, and u get all political? Effectively noma is for the people run by the people, a co-op, this makes good business sense,!!!
What a really stupid and insensitive headline. That’s disgraceful . Why could you not say a person who washed dishes?
Blame the headline for using the title that his now-partners use for him? Stop being such a PC orifice that excretes waste.
I was hoping he was joking!
I’d prefer “a washer of tableware” myself lol
Urgh… you know nothing, privilege ridden neoliberal.
I think you’ll find the proper term is table wear sanitation engineer.
…next time I’ve a complaint about a dirty plate in a restaurant I will request to discuss the matter with the chief shiny dish plate sanitation engineer. CHDPSE!!!
Someone on here has the ability to red thumb repeatedly given just 22 comments.strange weirdos.
People don’t want to crash the app, sure if there was a comment for every red thumb you got the server’d be on fire!
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