Alf Filer isn’t too keen on the Windsors or Nick Griffin.

The British Establishment and its hangers on could enjoy their tea, cucumber sandwiches and strawberry and cream without the presence of that most unworthy of guest, Nick Griffin. However the hypocrites were quite happy to rub shoulders with that other Nazi, Andrew Brons.

Griffin considered it an “absolute scandal” that his invite was withdrawn. The scandal was that he was invited in the first place, along with his fellow fascist. Yet as long as Brons played the game and kept stum then everyone ignored his presence and carried on as normal.

However, there is nothing normal about this pair. Their past history, statements and positions has proven this. Perhaps there are those in the ruling class who feel they are quite at home with racists, homophobes, Islamophobes and anti-semites.

Congratulations must go to Peter Tatchell for exposing Griffin in front of the media, accusing him of being a “gutless coward”. The BNP security lads showed themselves up in front of cameras for being the goons they are in the way Peter was man handled by them.

The 800 guests were not informed I suppose about the 100 years secrecy order on the records of Oswald Mosley’s interrogation after his arrest. Probably because it would embarrass the Royal Family. Having been born into the aristocracy, he then went on to attempt to mimic the Fuhrer with his Blackshirts and failed miserably thanks to the unity at Cable Street. Not many, if any, of the ruling elite were present at the barricades shouting “They shall not pass”. Some may have been on the other side waving on the police in attacking the anti-fascists, having 10 years earlier participated in the breaking of the General Strike of 1926.

According to other reports, the infamous spy and later turned Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Anthony Blunt was allegedly sent to Germany at the end of the 2^nd World War on behalf of the Royal Family to collect documents and help cover up past links to the Nazis. A secret fascist group called the “Right Club”, had included Archibald Ramsay, William Joyce, Anna Wolkoff, A. K. Chesterton, Francis Yeats-Brown, E. H. Cole, Lord Redesdale, 5th Duke of Wellington, Duke of Westminster, Aubrey Lees, John Stourton, Thomas Hunter, Samuel Chapman, Ernest Bennett, Charles Kerr, John MacKie, James Edmondson, Mavis Tate, Marquess of Graham, Margaret Bothamley, Lord Sempill, Earl of Galloway, H. T. Mills, Richard Findlay and Serrocold Skeels.

Blunt was never charged with treason or being a soviet spy at the time, perhaps to safeguard the record of the Royal Family. The Right Club is alleged to have included those high up in the Establishment spying for the Nazis and later attempting to negotiate with them. Another reason perhaps that Hess was locked up on his own for all those years. Hess tried to make contact with the Duke of Hamilton, a member of the Right Club and following his arrest, was prevented from talking to the press. By gad, too much at stake!

It is well documented about Edward VIII and his public sympathy for Hitler. Many at the time felt that as long as the Nazis did not challenge the interests of British capital and the Empire, then what they did to the Jews was none of their business. After all anti-semitism was rife amongst the upper classes in this country as well.

So back to Griffin. He may have been kept out but Brons went in and many family secrets are kept hidden from the public. The Queen may have a clean record but her family has a very murky past.

Then we come onto Prince Phillip and his so-called off the cuff comments, which he claimed were taken out of context or much misunderstood.

“It looks as though it was put in by an Indian,” referring to a fuse box on a visit to an electronics company in Edinburgh in 1999.

At the time, Kumar Murshid, chairman of the National Assembly Against Racism, said he was amazed that a man in the Duke’s position of influence had said such a thing. “This sort of thing is of great concern to us because people look up to the Royal Family and expect them to set an example to the public,” he told BBC News 24. There have been other such comments but we do not have the time or space to go into them now.

So are we so amazed about the Griffin invite? Some comrades feel that it is possible to have a fascist free monarchy. Well the existing members may not be pro fascist, yet they represent an institution that has a bad history on the subject. Many of the Royals across Europe, except for the Dutch Queen at the time, were happy to coexist with the fascists. Remember it was the Italian King who invited Mussolini to take power!

So once again unlucky poor Nick but it was not worth missing anyway!