A Swindon Borough Council employee has been outed as a neo-Nazi with ties to a far-right extremist group by a Jewish news organisation.

Leon Mayer, who has worked for Swindon Borough Council as a systems development officer and has been employed by the local authority since 2003, has also been accused by the Jewish Chronicle of secretly running a Twitter account containing vile references towards Jewish people.

On top of this, the punk rock band member, has posted offensive songs about the “genocide” of white people to YouTube, which he refers to as “Judentube”.

The council confirmed that he has been suspended.

A Swindon Borough Council spokesman said: “We have suspended our employee while we carry out a thorough investigation of these serious allegations. As a result, it would be inappropriate to make any further comment at this time.”

Mayer, who has been photographed going on hikes with supporters of the extremist far-right movement Patriotic Alternative, was confronted by the Chronicle last week about the allegations where he denied being an anti-Semite. 

He said Jews were "not really a problem", but added: "With the ones who are at the top of things, they’re a problem, like in banking and such things, which is common knowledge.”

Monitoring group Red Flare identified Mr Mayer as the person behind the "Kumquat Nat" Youtube account and "@NatKumquat" on Twitter, both of which were used to parrot extreme antisemetic content. 

Within hours of being confronted at his Swindon home by the Chronicle, both of these accounts were deleted. 

Songs posted on the Kumquat Nat YouTube channel were full of anger and hatred towards Jewish people.

One song contained the lyrics “It hasn’t ended, you know that. Walk into the light, Victory will soon be hailed" and was accompanied by a video showing a photograph of Hitler as a baby.

In addition to this, Mr Mayer’s alleged Twitter feed disparaged Jews, defended Hitler and attacked Muslims and non-white people. 

In one of the now-deleted tweets, Mr Mayer wrote “Oy Vey!!” next to a video of a truck daubed with antisemitic slogans being driven through a Jewish area of Los Angeles. The people on board were wearing Nazi uniforms and used a megaphone to threaten to beat up Jews.

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

Mr Mayer was photographed at a Patriotic Alternative hike last November at Castle Combe in the Cotswolds, something that is a regular activity for the far-right organisation. 

Mr Mayer attended another meeting in the Mendip Hills last March. The group unfurled a banner with the words: “Play your part with Patriotic Alternative.”

Asked 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.

“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," he added when asked if he was sympathetic to their policies.

Allan Jones, a spokesperson for Red Flare, said: “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.”