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John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British 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.
Spearhead was a British far-right magazine edited by John Tyndall until his death in July 2005. Founded in 1964 by Tyndall,it was used to voice his grievances against the state of the United Kingdom. The magazine has not continued under new editorship,although a new article appeared on the magazine's website in October 2010.
Derek William Beackon is a British far-right politician. He is currently a member of the British Democratic Party (BDP),and a former member of the British National Party (BNP) and National Front. In 1993,he became the BNP's first elected councillor,although he served for only eight months.
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.
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Kenneth Francis was a British politician and a former leading member of the British National Party (BNP) in London. He was expelled from the party in 2002 because he had a foreign girlfriend.
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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.
The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up in 1977 on the initiative of the Socialist Workers Party with sponsorship from some trade unions and the endorsement of a list of prominent people to oppose the rise of far-right groups in the United Kingdom. It was wound down in 1981. It was relaunched in 1992,but merged into Unite Against Fascism in 2003.
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.
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.
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