Channel 5 axed a documentary at the last minute after one of its contributors was exposed as a “hardline Nazi”.
The Year The Thames Flooded was due to be shown on the channel last night and take viewers through the devastation caused in London in 1928 when the river burst its banks.
Nikki Shaw, a historian who has written a number of books on Georgian London and Victorian murders, was set to appear in the programme, but a Hope Not Hate investigation found she met with members of the Combat 18 neo-Nazi group and made several racist posts on her Facebook account where she had pictured herself licking a Swastika lollipop.
She was also seen performing a Nazi salute, while one of her posts called for the murder of pop star Sam Smith and another saw her call someone a “black c***”.
Many of her posts are too extreme to publish, with Hope Not Hate saying her page was “riddled” with “vile racism and dehumanising language”.
Shaw posted on Facebook under her own name and as ‘Bunty Mcbint’ but her account has since been deactivated.
Other posts saw her criticise what she called “race-mixers” and “c****”.
Above a picture of Sam Smith, she wrote: “How comes no one has thought of euthanising these n**** c***s through a gas out in their tour busses (sic) while they sleep?”
Another post read: “Hate it when whites talk like m*****s on the train ffs.”
She also said: “I’m a racial nationalist coz that’s what I believe so I won’t defend race mixing no matter who done it.”
One of her friends even boasted about her role in the documentary, saying: “One to check out on Sunday, November 26, on C5 bit of good ole English history with our very own Bunty Mcbint making her screen debut for her love of history.”
A Channel 5 spokeswoman told the Daily Express in a statement released last night: “We will not be airing the film this evening whilst producers look into this further.”
When pressed for further comment on how Shaw had been chosen to star in the documentary, the channel said it would not be commenting further at the moment.
