[Tubby Isaacs]

Zack knows that all manner of people with anti-semitic previous are going to become Green candidates. This is all he can say.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is being punished for life for your mistakes a progressive position? There’s plenty of anti-racist activists previously involved in fascist groups before repenting. Admittedly signing up to be a councillor for a Farage tribute act Tory Party is an odd route to redemption.

There was an IRA member who became a Tory councillor, I recall. I guess that's a special case because of the peace process.

Generally, I would expect this chap to get a life ban. There's a lot of it, over a long period.

[Oboogie]

Is being punished for life for your mistakes a progressive position? There’s plenty of anti-racist activists previously involved in fascist groups before repenting. Admittedly signing up to be a councillor for a Farage tribute act Tory Party is an odd route to redemption.

There was an IRA member who became a Tory councillor, I recall. I guess that's a special case because of the peace process.

Generally, I would expect this chap to get a life ban. There's a lot of it, over a long period.

He's not some foot soldier seduced into a far-right group when he was a misguided teenager, he was trying to set up his own explicitly Nazi Party - not the EDL, not even the BNP, actual Hitler-was-right Nazis.
A teacher or a police officer holding such views would face a life-long ban, I have no issue with politicians being treated the same.