The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right,British fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton,Cumbria,and is led by Adam Walker. A minor party,it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. The party was founded in 1982,and reached its greatest level of success in the 2000s,when it had over fifty seats in local government,one seat on the London Assembly,and two Members of the European Parliament.
John Edward Bean was a British political activist and writer,who was a long-standing participant in far-right politics in the United Kingdom,and a number of its movements.
Martin Wingfield is a British far-right politician. Wingfield is long-standing figure in the British nationalist movement,he and his wife,Tina Wingfield,having contested several elections since the 1980s.
Andrew Henry William Brons is a British politician and former MEP. Long active in far-right politics in Britain,he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the fascist British National Party (BNP) at the 2009 European Parliament election and held the seat until May 2014. He was the chairman of the National Front in the early 1980s. He resigned the BNP whip in October 2012 and became patron of the far-right British Democratic Party. He did not seek re-election in 2014.
Mark Adrian Collett is a British neo-Nazi political activist. He was formerly chairman of the Young BNP,the youth division of the British National Party (BNP),and was director of publicity for the party.
Far-right politics are a recurring phenomenon in the United Kingdom since the early 20th century,with the formation of Nazi,fascist and antisemitic movements. One of the earliest examples of Fascism in the UK can be found as early as 1923 with the formation of British Fascisti by Rotha Lintorn-Orman. It went on to acquire more explicitly racial connotations,being dominated in the 1960s and 1970s by self-proclaimed white nationalist organisations that opposed non-white and Asian immigration. The idea stems from belief of white supremacy,the belief that white people are superior to all other races and should therefore dominate society. Examples of such groups in the UK are the National Front (NF),the British Movement (BM) and British National Party (BNP),or the British Union of Fascists (BUF). Since the 1980s,the term has mainly been used to describe those groups,such as the English Defence League,who express the wish to preserve what they perceive to be British culture,and those who campaign against the presence of non-indigenous ethnic minorities.
Edward Mark Butler is a former National Elections Officer of the British National Party (BNP) and was dubbed the party's "elections guru" by its newspaper,Voice of Freedom,until being suspended and expelled from the BNP in 2010 by Nick Griffin. He then became a member of the English Democrats before becoming associated with the For Britain Movement.
Richard Charles Edmonds was a British far-right politician and activist. He was the deputy chairman and national organiser of the British National Party (BNP) and also prominent in the National Front (NF) during two spells of membership.
Simon Darby is a British politician and former deputy chairman of the British National Party.
This article lists the British National Party's election results in the UK parliamentary,Scottish parliamentary and Welsh Assembly elections,as well as in the European Parliament elections and at a local level.
Nicholas John Griffin is a British far-right politician who was chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2009 to 2014. Following this,he was president of the BNP between July and October 2014,when he was expelled from the party.
The Question Time British National Party controversy occurred in September and October 2009,due to an invitation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to Nick Griffin,leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP),to be a panelist on Question Time,one of its flagship television programmes on current affairs.
The British National Party (BNP) leadership election of 2011 was triggered on 28 June 2011 when the party adopted a new constitution that required a leadership election to take place every four years. Two candidates stood in the leadership election:Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons. On 25 July 2011,the results of the leadership election were announced,with Griffin being named the winner by just 9 votes. Griffin had secured 1,157 votes compared to the 1,148 votes for Brons.
The British Democratic Party (BDP),commonly known as the British Democrats,is a British far-right political party. It was registered with the Electoral Commission in 2011,and officially launched in 2013 at a Leicestershire village hall by a ten-member steering committee which included former members of several political parties including the British National Party (BNP),Democratic Nationalists,Freedom Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Britain First is a far-right,British fascist and neo-fascist political party and hate group formed in 2011 by former members of the British National Party (BNP). The group was founded by Jim Dowson,an anti-abortion and far-right campaigner. The organisation's co-leaders are former BNP councillor Paul Golding and Ashlea Simon. Jayda Fransen formerly served as its deputy leader.
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982 and was led by Nick Griffin from September 1999 to July 2014. Its current chairman is Adam Walker. The BNP platform is centred on the advocacy of "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home",as well as the repeal of anti-discrimination legislation. It restricted membership to "indigenous British" people until a 2010 legal challenge to its constitution.
Louise Bours,also known as Louise van de Bours,is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region. She was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party candidate but resigned from the party 2018,and sat as an independent until she stood down at the 2019 election.
The British National Party (BNP) leadership election of 2015 was triggered on 19 July 2014 when Nick Griffin stepped down as BNP leader to instead become the organisation's president,but was not announced until 29 June 2015. Two candidates stood in the leadership election:Adam Walker and Paul Hilliard. On 27 July 2015,the results of the leadership election were announced,with Walker being named the winner by a margin of 378 votes,which translated to a 55.35% margin of victory. Walker had secured 543 votes compared to the 145 votes for Hilliard and the 15 spoiled ballot papers.
The British National Party (BNP) leadership election of 1999 occurred on 28 September,and was intended to select a new leader for the BNP. It was triggered when Nick Griffin stood against John Tyndall for leadership of the party,after Tyndall had served for 17 years as leader of the party. Griffin won the election with 72.5% of the vote. The election returned a new leader of the BNP,and marked a shift in the party towards a more modern organisation,and with the intent of gaining broader appeal and legitimacy.
The British National Party (BNP) leadership election of 2019 took place in July 2019 to elect the leader of the BNP. Four years had passed since the previous election in 2015,and the party constitution required a leadership election to be held quadrennially. Incumbent BNP leader Adam Walker was first elected in 2015 after previously serving as Acting Leader and Deputy Leader,and he stood for re-election. His sole opponent was BNP press officer,national spokesman,and London mayoral candidate David Furness. He announced his leadership campaign on his YouTube channel and received endorsements from several notable party members.
