The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right,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. It has been largely inactive since 2019.
John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British neo-fascist political activist. A leading member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s,he was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1975 to 1980,and then chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1982 to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons and European Parliament on several occasions.
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.
The National Democrats (ND) was a British nationalist party in the United Kingdom (UK). The former party chairman,Ian Anderson,died on 2 February 2011,and the party was de-registered with the Electoral Commission on 10 March 2011.
Roberto Fiore is an Italian far-right politician and convicted criminal who has been the leader of the party,Forza Nuova,since its foundation in 1997,as well as president of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom since 2015. He briefly served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Central Italy from 2008 until 2009.
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.
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.
Richard Barnbrook is a British politician and a former member of the London Assembly. He was elected as a British National Party (BNP) list candidate in the 2008 election,though he resigned the BNP whip in August 2010 and subsequently sat as an independent. Barnbrook was a councillor,and leader (2006–08),then deputy leader (2008–10),of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council. He represented Goresbrook ward. Barnbrook retired from politics in May 2012.
Redwatch was a British website associated with members of the far-right British People's Party. It published photographs of,and personal information about,alleged far left and anti-fascist activists. It typically targeted activists in political parties,advocacy groups,trade unions and the media. The website's slogan was "Remember places,traitors' faces,they'll all pay for their crimes",a quote from neo-Nazi musician Ian Stuart Donaldson.
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.
Arthur Kemp is a Rhodesian-born writer and the owner of Ostara Publications,a distributor of racist tracts,who was from 2009 to 2011 the foreign affairs spokesperson for the British National Party. He was born in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and worked as a right-wing journalist in South Africa before moving to the United Kingdom in 1996.
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 Battle for Barking is a 2010 British documentary film,chronologically filming the campaign for the election of MP to the Barking constituency. It won the Sheffield Youth Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2010.
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).
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.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is a British anti-fascist group.
Paul Martin Laurence Weston is a British far-right politician and blogger.
Adam Walker is a British far-right politician who is the chairman of the British National Party (BNP). He was elected in a leadership election on 27 July 2015,having previously been appointed acting chairman by the National Executive when the then-leader,Nick Griffin,resigned.
