A BNP election candidate claims a hoaxer is behind neo-Nazi insignia festooned on a Facebook page set up under his name. An anti-BNP group claimed Colin Marsh’s Facebook page contained SS and neo-Nazi group Combat 18 insignia. Party leader Nick Griffin called for his candidate to be thrown out of the far-right group in an appearance on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show. “It’s totally ridiculous and all made up,” said Mr Marsh, who is standing in the Weaver Vale constituency, which contains large parts of Runcorn. The former Royal Navy sailor added: “It’s sickening, I’ve never seen anything like that before. It definitely wasn’t me. “Somebody has gone into Facebook and done it. The BNP have looked into it and they are quite satisfied that it wasn’t me. “I ended up going into hospital over the weekend because of this. “I suffer from angina and can’t have major shocks.” The Facebook account, called Col Marsh Eastcheshirebnp, was taken down hours after the story broke in The Sun. “Nick Griffin was right to say what he did, he’s bound on saying that and that’s what he should have said,” added Mr Marsh, who has no plans to stand down over the controversy. “It’s too late to back down so I would have to sit anyway. “There’s a lot of people saying stick with it, I’ve had a lot of support from the electorate in Weaver Vale. “It’s something I would be so proud of if I was chosen to represent them.” Maurice Cousins, deputy editor for Nothing British About the BNP, an anti-BNP campaign group, said: “Colin Marsh is a vile neo-Nazi sympathiser with values inimical to Britain’s liberal democratic way of life. “Despite Nick Griffin’s claims to have axed neo-Nazis from the party, Colin Marsh shows you the true face of the BNP it doesn’t want you to see.”
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