National Action: Domestic Terror Group.

All I seem to talk about these days is how the Cold War was fought by proxy. The Soviet states would support Communist revolutionary groups and the NATO nations would support Ultranationalist and Fascist groups to counter them.

So for example in Turkey you had the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Both of these political parties remain active and each have an armed wing - the People's Defence Forces (HPG) and the Grey Wolves respectively.

Due to the Northern Irish Troubles Britain actually had various different groups. However on the British mainland the main NATO backed group was Combat 18.

Taking their name from the 1st and 8th letter of the Latin alphabet to signify Adolf Hitler Combat 18 were an extreme neo-Nazi group. They were closely linked to the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) in Northern Ireland and at the very least inspired David Copeland in his April 1999 bombing campaign which included the bombing of the Admiral Duncan gay bar in central London. Following the September 11th 2001 (11/9/01) terror attacks in the US Combat 18 were rapidly disbanded as the nature of terrorism changed.

Between roughly 2010 and 2015 the UK did try to to resurrect this Cold War strategy with the creation of the English Defence League (EDL) - an Ultranationalist but not strictly speaking neo-Nazi group. The intention being to pit white working class nationalists against the political left in order to stop them uniting to fight the government's austerity program.

The EDL spawned a smaller group called National Action. Primarily aimed at people aged 18-35 National Action is an extreme neo-Nazi group very reminiscent of Combat 18 whose members not only embrace violence but seem to see it as an end into itself.

National Action really started to set off alarm bells in January 2015 when one of it's members - Zack Davies -  brutally and randomly attacked a Sikh man - Dr Sarandev Singh Bhambra - with a machete a supermarket in Wales. Despite the fact that Dr Bhambra was a Sikh Davies said he committed this attack to avenge the Muslim terrorists who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013.

Obviously I can no more speak for all the World's Sikhs then I can for all the World's Muslims. However as a general rule they really hate each other. So attacking a Sikh in revenge for Islamist terrorism is possibly the dumbest thing you can do.

In September 2015 Zack Davies was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to a minimum of 14years in prison. At the end of the trial Dr Bhambra and his family along with many on Britain's political left were demanding to know why the police and Courts weren't treating the attack as an example of neo-Nazi terrorism and policing National Action accordingly.

The reason for this is that National Action had already been passed over to Britain's domestic Security Service - MI5 - who were conducting a covert operation against National Action.

Part of that covert operation seems to have been the June 2016 killing of Jo Cox MP. That of course had nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with eliminating a woman who was channelling funds to groups at war with the UK. The public campaign that Jo Cox was planning on groups like National Action would have blown the covert operation apart.

On December 16th (16/12/16) National Action were formally proscribed as a terrorist group for the purposes of the Terrorism Act 2000. As a result membership of or support for National Action became a criminal offence on December 19th (19/12/16). I took that as a sign that MI5 had gathered all the information they needed to completely dismantle the group.

So this is something that's been bugging me since the Davies trial.

Although delayed I wasn't going to let France's antics at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that weekend make me forget about it entirely.

17:15 on 30/12/16 (UK date).