Mark Collett

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For other people of the same name, see Mark Collet (disambiguation).
Mark Collett
Born (1980-10-03) 3 October 1980 (age 43)
Nationality British
Occupation Political activist, video gamer
Known for Former chairman of the Young BNP, activism against white genocide
Political party British National Party (pre-2010)
Movement Patriotic Alternative (2019-present)

Mark Adrian Collett (born 3 October 1980) is a British white nationalist. He is a former chairman of the Young BNP, the youth division of the British National Party (BNP), and was Director of Publicity for the Party before being suspended from the party in early April 2010. During the same month, it was reported by the mainstream media that he had been investigated by police for making threats against party leader Nick Griffin. His membership was reinstated just one week later, on the orders of the Party's National Chairman Nick Griffin.

From Rothley, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and the University of Leeds where he gained a second-class honours degree in Business Economics (2:2).[1] Collett is a vocal opponent of population replacement, of male surplus immigration, and of white genocide. His highly politically incorrect comments have been the source of much controversy from mostly left-wing critics, who have described him as a promoter of racist conspiracy theories.[2][3]

As a member of the BNP and controversies

Collett featured on a Channel 4 documentary on the BNP - Young, Nazi and Proud broadcast in 2002 which concentrated almost exclusively on Collett. He declared his admiration for Adolf Hitler and UDA terrorist Johnny Adair, unaware he was being filmed. Collett was sacked from his position in the party and expelled days after the broadcast, although party leaders continued to share speaking platforms with him. However he was allowed to rejoin a few days later with chairman Nick Griffin saying that he must change his views on the subject. Collett was the party's head of publicity and produced the party's monthly magazine Identity.[4]

As a result of a police investigation into another documentary, BBC One's The Secret Agent, which in July 2004 broadcast secret footage of Collett making remarks about asylum seekers, Collett, then aged 24, was bailed on race hate offences at Leeds magistrates' court on April 7, 2005 alongside party founder John Tyndall and party leader Nick Griffin. The trial ended on February 2, 2006 after a jury acquitted Collett of two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred, and two alternative charges of using words likely to stir up racial hatred. The jury failed to reach a verdict in respect of a further four charges. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently announced that Collett and Griffin would face a retrial on the remaining charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred. This retrial began at Leeds Crown Court on November 1, 2006 and he and Griffin were found not guilty.[5]

On Russell Brand's 2002 TV show RE:Brand, Collett described homosexuals as "AIDS Monkeys", "bum bandits" and "faggots".[6] In the Channel 4 documentary, Young, Nazi and Proud, Collett said that he considered AIDS a “friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it."[1][7]

In April, 2010 he was sacked from his job as BNP publicity chief and suspended from the party for being supportive of a leadership bid against Griffin,[8] and was subsequently arrested by Humberside police, who questioned him over alleged threats to kill Griffin.[9] Despite the reinstatement of Collett's party membership he did not stand for the party in the May 2010 general election, and it is unclear whether he will hold any official position again within the party in the near future.

Humberside Police did not bring charges against Collett over the allegations of threats to kill, formally dismissing them later in 2010.

Post-BNP activism and Patriotic Alternative

In 2017, he published a book titled "The Fall of Western Man", which details how Western nations have been subverted since the 1960s, mostly as the result of almost all overwhelmingly white homogeneous countries turning into countries where white people are becoming a minority, in addition to the increasing radicalization of the political left in these countries, particularly since the Great Awokening began during the era of Barack Obama as President of the United States.[10] In July 2019, he founded the British nationalist organization Patriotic Alternative, alongside Yorkshire native Laura Towler.

Collett is a player and collector of video games. He streams videos of himself playing games on his BitChute channel.

Elections contested

Date of election Constituency Party Votes  % Source
2005 Leeds Central BNP 1201 4.1 The Guardian, 7 May 2005

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Channel 4 Documentary - Dispatches: Young, Nazi and Proud (2002) Video
  2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Collett
  3. ↑ https://www.rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mark_Collett
  4. ↑ Editorial team, Identity website, accessed 26 Nov 2008
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  10. ↑ https://www.takimag.com/article/the-great-awokening-conspiracy-theory/

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