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PublicHouse skinheads the world over as neo-Nazi thugs who lived for trouble and would stomp anyone in their way. The Sun fed the youngsters drink, twisted their words and misrepresented them and the culture. You can hear as much in the Trojan Skins’ own words if you listen to the BBC’ s 1980 radio documentary about the article and how it was fabricated. It speaks with those interviewed by The Sun and the locals who knew these‘ racist thugs’. It can be found on Soundcloud or just follow the web address below.
https:// soundcloud. com / keeponrocking1960 / tilbury-skinheads-documentary
It says 1960 in the link but it is in fact 1980 as shown in documentary.
The music at the end of the documentary is a Tilbury Skinhead band called Angela Rippon’ s Bum.
The damage had already been done and the article had been printed all over the country and once this had happened, racist knuckle heads thought,‘ I’ ll av’ some of that’, then went straight to the bathroom, got their razor, boneheaded themselves and went out and bashed some Paki’ s. Fuelled by the politics of the time and the National Front, this element grew, and became the dominant force within the culture and transformed it into the beast you see around the world today. The white supremacists in the USA picked up on the press from the UK and become an organised gang who now run parts of
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