A senior local authority officer with a quiet desk job has an alter-ego as a neo-Nazi who spouts hate in sickening rock songs, the JC can reveal.

Leon Mayer, who works for Swindon Borough Council as a systems development officer, secretly ran a Twitter feed that contains vile references to Jews and has posted incendiary songs about the “genocide” of white people to YouTube, which he refers to as “Judentube”.

He has also been photographed going on hikes with supporters of the extremist far-right movement Patriotic Alternative (PA).

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One of Mayer's antisemitic posts

Mr Mayer, who is in a punk band that performs gigs in and around Swindon, was identified by monitoring group Red Flare as the person behind the “Kumquat Nat” YouTube account and @NatKumquat on Twitter, both of which have posted extreme antisemitic content.

Swindon Council said Mr Mayer, whose LinkedIn profile features photographs in which his black hair appears in a style apparently reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, was being suspended while it carries out an internal investigation into the allegations.

Confronted by the JC outside his Swindon home this week, he denied being Kumquat Nat, but added: “I’ve used an alias similar.”

Within hours, however, both the YouTube and Twitter accounts were deleted.
Mr Mayer also denied being a member of PA. He would only say: “I know of them.”

Asked where he stood on Jews, he replied: “Not really a problem. With the ones who are at the top of things, they’re a problem, like in banking and such things, which is common knowledge.”

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Mayer playing with his punk band

Patriotic Alternative, founded in 2019 by former BNP press officer Mark Collett, is seen as the UK’s most active fascist group, uniting extremists associated with antisemitism, anti-
Muslim hatred and homophobia. Many of its supporters used to belong to the now-banned Nazi terrorist group National Action. Collett has been accused of having links to National Action.

PA supporters often meet for country hikes in order to recruit and discuss their policies without fear of being overheard.
The JC has obtained photographs of Mayer attending two such hikes, in the Cotswolds and the Mendip Hills in Somerset.

Mr Mayer’s activities with PA brings into question his suitability for employment by a local authority, where he has worked since 2003, according to his LinkedIn page.

Using the name Kumquat Nat, he posted to YouTube songs brimming with hatred, including Swindon Is Dead, Dresden and Kalergi Express, believed to be a reference to the late Austrian philosopher Richard Nikolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi, whose works have been mischaracterised by neo-Nazis as warning Europe would be dominated by Jews.

When YouTube monitors took down one of Kumquat Nat’s many offensive videos, a song called Dissident Detected (Shut It Down!), he complained on his Twitter account: “(The song) gets taken down by Judentube for possible ‘Hate Speech’. They write themselves.”

A fourth song, You Called?, proclaims: “It hasn’t ended, you know that. Walk into the light, Victory will soon be hailed.” The song is accompanied by a video showing a photograph of Hitler as a baby.

Mr Mayer’s Twitter feed, under the name of @Nat Kumquat, contained defences of Hitler and disparaging references to Jews, Muslims and non-whites.

On 8 June, on Twitter, he commented “Pure Gold” alongside an antisemitic YouTube post by “Mordecai Sheckelberg”, an account that makes sick jokes about the Holocaust.

In another of his tweets, posted two weeks earlier, Mr Mayer wrote “Oy Vey!!” alongside a video made by neo-Nazis who drove a truck daubed with antisemitic slogans through a Jewish area of Los Angeles while using a megaphone to threaten to beat up Jews. The truck was accompanied by men on foot dressed in Nazi uniforms.

PA’s country hikes have become a regular activity. Mr Mayer was photographed at one such gathering last November in the Cotswolds. He can be seen among a dozen or so others, mainly male, in the village of Castle Combe. The visit was highlighted on PA’s Twitter feed the next day.

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Spotted: Mayer, third from right, about to go on a hike with Patriotic Alternative (Red Flare)

The PA hikers reconvened, with Mr Mayer again present, in the Mendip Hills last March. In a pub garden, the group unfurled a banner with the words: “Play your part with Patriotic Alternative.” Asked by the JC if he had been on these hikes, Mr Mayer replied: “I went on one once, to see what it’s about.”

When asked if he was a PA member, he said: “I’m not a member. I’d have thought you’d have to be paying money or something.” He was asked if he was sympathetic with their policies.

“I agree with some of it, yeah. I agree with some of lots of parties. I agree with not becoming a minority within the country.”

On whether he was anti-immigration, he said: “Well, the country’s only so big. It does put a lot of pressure on. I’m anti massive immigration.”

Pressed on whether he was anti-Jewish, he said: “No, I’ve said this before, only these oligarchs within certain systems, like the media, which you can’t deny, and other such things that they’re the majority within. The rich ones, but that’s what they do. You could say the same about the Catholics.”

Allan Jones, spokesperson for Red Flare, told the JC: “PA’s hikes are intended as a ‘safe space’ for fascists and neo-Nazis to espouse their abhorrent world views and to network with one another.

“Mayer has chosen to express these horrific views under an anonymous pseudonym.

“Mayer is a coward who takes to the internet to spread deranged conspiracy theories and express his genocidal fantasies from behind a bizarre online pseudonym.”

There is no evidence that other members of Mr Mayer’s rock band share his views.