British National Front
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The British National Front (National Front or NF) was formed at a meeting in Caxton Hall, Westminster on February 7 1967; the first Chairman was Arthur K. Chesterton, cousin of G. K. Chesterton. The new party was in fact a merger of three groups: the Racial Preservation Society, the British National Party and the League of Empire Loyalists.
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[edit] Foundations of the Nation Front
The membership and ideas of these three groups were different in some respects but they were bound together by agreement in some very fundamental principles: that Britain and the British people have a right to determine their own future; that multi-racialism and mass immigration was a tragic mistake; that patriotism is laudable and that Capitalism, Communism and Internationalism take power away from the individual.
It was a belief in these basic principles which held together the members of these different groups who, fed up of seeing white patriots disunited, were determined to see the NF as a vehicle of both unity and victory. Two hundred and fifty founder members of the new united Movement fought their way through a Communist mob outside the hall to attend that inaugural meeting on the 7th February 1967.
[edit] Violent Opposition
Between 1967 and 1969 progress was slow, although a number of small regional groups of concerned Britons joined the steadily growing young NF. The National Front slowly increased in size but also encountered growing opposition from Communist and Zionist groups: meetings were attacked, a lorry was crashed into the Nationalist Center in South London, and the 1969 Annual General Meeting had to be moved after the power room of the hall was broken into and the mains cables severed with axes.
[edit] 1970 Elections
By 1970 the movement had begun to settle down and was able to field ten parliamentary candidates in the General Election of that year. They received between 1.8% and 5.6% of the votes.
[edit] Literature
In early 1971 A. K. Chesterton resigned as Chairman and was replaced by John O'Brien who had joined the National Front from the National Democratic Party which had just folded. At the same time, the movement became more organized with the establishment of functioning Directorate departments: Activities, Administration, Branch Development, Finance, Policy and Publicity. Until early 1971, the only regular publications supporting the NF were Spearhead, the monthly magazine privately owned by John Tyndall, then Chairman of the Policy Department, and A. K. Chesterton's Candour. Now a broadsheet Britain First was produced selling at just 2 pence. Also for the first time, a range of recruitment leaflets and stickers were produced.
[edit] 1973/1974 Elections
The level of activities dramatically increased in 1972, almost all with the theme of stopping immigration. This was at a time when mass immigration was causing deep dismay among the British public and it resulted in the recruitment of many new members. By mid-1973 the movement was growing at an unprecedented rate and votes in local elections were rising all across the country. For example the NF candidate in the West Bromwich Parliamentary by-election, Martin Webster, gained almost 5,000 votes, 16% of the poll.
In 1974 there were two General Elections: at the first one in February, the NF fielded 54 candidates who received a total of 75,000 votes. By October, the party was able to increase this to 90 candidates and they attracted 113,000 votes.
[edit] 1974 Anti-Immigration March
This further rapid growth of the NF resulted in yet increased opposition, primarily from Communist and Zionist groups. On June 15 1974 the National Front held an anti-immigration march from West London to Conway Hall, Holborn. The march was entirely peaceful but as the column approached Red Lion Square a large mob of leftist agitators attempted to block the route. Police horses were used to clear a way through and a large number of arrests were made - all of them leftist thugs, (none of the NF members were arrested). The event made the front pages of every single national newspaper. By the time the NF entered the October election campaign there can have been few people in the country who did not know the name National Front and the initials NF.
[edit] 1976/1977 Elections
During 1976 the movement's fortunes rapidly improved. A major campaign was launched in support of Robert Relf, who had been jailed for refusing to remove a sign from outside his home declaring that it was for sale to English buyers. The May local election results were impressive with the jewel in the crown being Leicester, where 48 candidates won 43,733 votes, nearly 20% of the total vote. By June the Party's growth rate was its highest ever. This was emphasized in May 1977 when some outstanding local election results were achieved: in particular 119,000 votes were cast in favour of the NF in London and the Liberals were beaten in 33 out of 92 constituencies.
[edit] 1977 Lewisham March
On 13th August 1977 a major NF march through Lewisham in South London was organised by the National Activities Organiser, Mr. Martin Webster. It was violently attacked by a large mob, possibly 10,000 strong, of leftist degenerates. Bricks, bottles, iron railings and other missiles were hurled at the patriots marching through Lewisham, but the attempt to halt the Front failed - as it always does. Over 300 Marxists were arrested but not one NF member. Again the NF smashed its way into the national headlines.
[edit] Resurgence
The 1980's and early 90's were sluggish, but in the mid-90's the National Front started recovering ground, and with a vengeance. A new paper Flame was published along with new units springing up almost weekly. The winning strategy, that one that had made the NF so successful in the beginning, is again being implemented. The last few years have seen marches being held again and the Drum Corps is in the process of being reformed. The Young National Front has been revived with its "notorious" hard-hitting paper Bulldog.
[edit] Current Elections
Since 2000 the number of candidates we have fielded each year in local election has increased, in May 2003 we fielded 11, this is still too few as to make any real impact we need more British Patriots to stand up and be counted.What is most significant is the increase in our percentage of the vote from an average of 3% in 2000 to 13% in 2003, with some wards returning 15% of the vote even beating the Lid Dems and Conservatives in several wards.
The 2554 votes we received in the North Tyneside Mayoral Election was a major milestone in the fact we retained our deposit in an election that covered two and a half parliamentary seats!
This is a clear indication that the British electorate are dissatisfied with the 3 main party's and are ready to elect a Nationalist party as immigrants continue to flood into Britain while our jobs are being exported abroad.
[edit] See Also
[edit] External links
- National Front http://www.national-front.org.uk/
- The British National Front http://www.natfront.com/
