DESPITE being disorganised, the far right in Scotland is still dangerous.

The movement attracts a relatively small number of followers but those who do join up soon rise through the ranks.

Nick Lowles, who investigates the activities of neo-Nazis and fascists, said: 'Although the numbers active in the BNP in Scotland are small and their organisation minimal, those who are involved are extremely active.

'The people from Scotland are much more hardline and much less compromising than those who are trying to alter the party's image.

'Warren Bennett is involved in the religious and political history of Scotland but the others are much more Hitler-ite in their thinking.'

The BNP's number two is Scots-born Scott McLean, while their main candidate in the forthcoming Euro elections is Steve Blake, an IT consultant from Stirling.

Another activist is Glasgow-born Jamie Hunter, who is a leading light in the Blood and Honour skinhead music scene.

Lowles' book, White Riot the Rise and Fall of Combat 18, identifies the main players in British far right.

Combat 18 took their name from the position in the alphabet of the initials of Adolf Hitler's name.

Last year, it was revealed how another extremist group, the White Nationalist Party, were attempting to exploit racial tensions in Scotland.

The London-based organisation is considered too extreme by the BNP, who have banned their members from having anything to do with it.

Last September, the WNP applied to hold an anti-asylum seeker rally in Glasgow's George Square but were turned down by the city council.