“Reasonable grounds to suspect” Blood and Honour of engaging in “terrorist activities through promoting and encouraging terrorism, seeking to recruit people for that purpose, and making funds available for its terrorist activities,” according to Treasury ministers.
All aliases and affiliate groups, including Combat 18 and 28 Radio, were included in the assets freeze, which means that no one in the UK can pay or give financial services to the organizations listed.
Proscription, in which the Home Office bans extremist organizations, is a different kind of government response.
Ian Stuart Donaldson, sometimes known as Ian Stuart, launched Blood and Honour in 1987. He was the lead vocalist for Skrewdriver, a skinhead rock band.
