[11] One such event in Handsworth ended in a riot with 28 arrests as National Front and anti-fascist demonstrators clashed when their respective marches met.
He would go on to rejoin the British Movement, although he left due to his dissatisfaction with the leadership of Michael McLaughlin and instead devoted much of his energies to the World Union of National Socialists, at the time led by Povl Riis-Knudsen.
[15] Having gained notoriety Relf continued to perform publicity stunts, notably in September 1978 when he was handed a £10 fine for refusing to wear a motorcycle helmet in protest at the legal exemption from the requirement for Sikhs.
In the letter Relf attacked local Tories for their decision to endorse John Taylor, a black man who would later be appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, as their candidate for the 1992 general election.
[19] Taylor failed to win the traditionally Conservative seat of Cheltenham in the 1992 election, losing to Nigel Jones of the Liberal Democrats.
Relf had sent the cards after reading a story that the local police had removed a poster promoting a Saint George's Day event.