The “Nationalist Alliance” are holding a rally for “Flag Day” in Wellington this Saturday October 25. The “Alliance” consists of the National Front along with two groups made up of people who broke away from the NF: Kerry Bolton’s New Right and Anton Foljambe’s National Democrats. Funny that the latter should be part of the Nationalist Alliance seeing as just a few months ago the National Democrats website announced that they had dissolved due to lack of support! We guess Anton needs to have something to make himself look important.

What is interesting is that some time after a public spat last year between the then-NF leader Sid Wilson and the New Right, Kyle Chapman took charge of the NF again.

To help celebrate NZ Flag Day they’ve even invited some Australians along, most notably Jim Saleam, who is most well known for his years of dressing up in replica Nazi uniforms during rallies. Oh, and for being jailed for the arson of a left-wing bookshop and a shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress representative to Australia, Eddie Funde, in Sydney.

The NF have previously held rallies to commemorate NZ Flag Day on the Cenotaph next to Parliament on Labour Weekend in 2004 and 2005. In 2006 they held their rally on the lawns of the empty Parliament building. The irony, which seems to escape them, is that they have held their rally under the Cenotaph’s inscription “Lest We Forget 1939-1945″, whilst a number of NF members have stood there sporting swastika tattoos and SS insignia on their clothing. During their 2004 rally one of their members even performed a nazi salute to TV camera crews and declared “The white revolution starts here”.

Some people just don’t get it.