This is one thing that has always puzzled me - where was it ever going to lead to? And when are we talking about - what about links with contemporary fascism in teh UK? Are there any?
In terms of current day BNP /C18 - probably very little. But then, the BNP is pushing 'Joey Smith' (think a racist, pseudo-moralistic Just Jack, but musically and vocally worse) and C18 are so dependent on money they're concentrating on the real sellers, ie - endless Ian Stuart / No Remorse CD reissues, a crop of bands I've gladly never heard of / forgotten the name of, etc.
I'll be honest - it's leading nowhere, which is maybe why we should forget it. How many people do you know, in your day-to-day life, who are actually aware of the term 'neo-folk' anyway? It's so removed from popular culture, it might as well be lost chunks of the Old Testament. This was always the contradiction I had - I liked the music personally, but almost everyone I was friendly with thought it was rubbish, just one of my 'quirky' tastes. TG and SPK mean zilch to most of my friends, and I wouldn't even bother trying to inflict either group on them.
At least Test Dept and Nocturnal Emissions (both possibly the most blatantly 'left' of industrial bands) incorporated elements like dub, hip hop, etc and were happy to cross over into unchartered(for 'industrial') territories - miners' strike benefits, WOMAD, etc, where they at least had the chance to connect with others outside of a prescribed 'scene'. Plus, they left us some fucking great albums.
Again, a problem I had was precisely the ambiguity of some of the other groups - it's all well shoving swastikas and corpses in peoples' faces, but if you're not prepared to link it to some suggestion of how you might possibly take the ideas and run with them in a wider social context, what's the point? You might as well just listen to Slayer or watch horror films. SPK have a reputation for producing films of autopsies and smashed up cadavers, but these were accompanied by juxtaposed pics of glamour models, medical and psychiatric reports, musings on the nature of social control, manifestos which may have been crude and overly idealistic (and which you could disagree with) or whatever, but at least weren't just focusing on a 1-D xerox of atrocity for its own sake - or, as that guy said earlier in the thread, "uniform fetishism".
But, if people really enjoy that, that's up to them, I'm not pissing on their parade. Personally, I just got bored with the unfocused nihilism. Maybe hardcore fans of extremism are actually the most 'shockable' people of all?