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1/ With BBC's #RidleyRoad starting on Sunday, I remind myself of Colin Jordan, Britain's would-be führer in the 1960s, overtly pro-Hitler & keen to continue Hitler's work. Photo shows his his wedding to Françoise Dior. 
2/ This was in my teenage yeears. We hated Colin Jordan more than we feared him. He had a following & militaristic aspirations but the British people were notlooking for a Hitler of their own. Françoise changed hands, between Jordan & his deputy John Tyndall...
3/...marrying first one, then the other,they flitting back to the previous paramour. she wore a diamond swastika necklace. A Jewish taxi driver wrenched it from her neck & threw it in the gutter. He got charged with assault - but I digress...
