The History of the League of Empire Loyalists and Candour

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While a creature of the past, one suspects that the League and its narratives may yet acquire a new relevance in the future. This is the spirit in which to read this lucid and well-written book, not merely as a remnant of a fading past.

The formation of the National Front (NF) at the beginning of 1967 brought together much of the previously disunited extreme right in Britain. The League of Empire Loyalists, led by former Mosleyite A.K. Chesterton, regrouped with the British National Party (BNP) and with members of the Racial Preservation Society and, shortly after, another group, the Greater Britain Movement (GBM), dissolved to enable members to join the new organization. Both the BNP, led by Andrew Fountaine and John Bean, and the GBM, led by John Tyndall and Martin Webster, took the view that Chesterton had given too little attention to elections. Conversely, however, Chesterton and sections of the BNP were united in their initial reluctance to fuse with the Tyndall group which they saw as too overtly sympathetic to National Socialism for a credibly British nationalist movement. Tyndall’s admission represented a suspension of this doubt but the continued exclusion of yet another organization, the National Socialist Movement (subsequently British Movement), was intended to ensure that whatever subterranean sympathies for Nazism existed in National Front circles should at least remain unexpressed in public. Keywords For instance, the Waffen SS indoctrinated their recruits, 50% of whom were non-German, with a mix of anti-communism, anti-Semitism and pan-Europeanism, with slogans proclaiming a “New Europe”. Michael Billig, A Social Psychological View of the National Front, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 113 To replace what is known as 'The Commonwealth" by a modern British world system which, while ensuring the sovereign independence of each nation, would work for the closest co-operation between the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia. Canada, and Rhodesia, and in which, if they so desired, the Republics of South Africa and Ireland would each occupy an honoured place.Of course, the fascism of the 1930s had ended with another attempt to create a “united Europe”, under Hitler’s rule. And, as defeat loomed, some Nazis did toy with the idea of pan-Europeanism, rather than simple national dominance by the German Reich.

Goodwin, Matthew (19 August 2012). "The far right is fragmenting". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 May 2014. The British Peoples' Party was a splinter group from the Nationalist Alliance established by Eddy Morrison in 2005. It also contested the 2010 local elections, albeit with a single candidate. As its name suggests the initial aim of the LEL was to support the British Empire and to campaign for its continuing existence. It was to be its calls for the restoration of the empire and reassertion of the notion of English people as the world's natural leaders that ultimately saw the group become estranged from the Conservatives, as the League was increasingly divorced from the one nation conservatism that came to dominate the party. This was particularly true following the independence of Sudan and the Suez Crisis in 1956 when the Conservatives formally broke from any notion of being the party of empire. Fielding, Nigel (1981). The National Front. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p.20. ISBN 978-0710005595. White Nationalist Crusade was set up in 1981 in an attempt to bring a number of the divided far right groups under one banner. Although its members included veterans such as Robert Relf it failed to achieve its goal of providing a rallying point. [52]To give unremitting support to British and other European communities overseas in their maintenance of civilisation in lands threatened with reversion to barbarism. The November 9th Society is a neo-Nazi group established by Terry Flynn in 1977 and subsequently led by Kevin Quinn. [31] A hardline Nazi group, it has since represented as a political party under the name British First Party.

a b Colin Liddell (14 February 2013). "The launch of the BDP". Radix. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. The National Labour Party was another splinter group from the League of Empire Loyalists, founded by John Bean in 1957. The group was similar to the White Defence League, albeit along the lines of a political party rather than a pressure group, and the two merged to form the British National Party in 1960. [19] 1960s [ edit ] British National Party [ edit ] In his election leaflets Mosley also told voters that British membership of a united Europe would bring a number of advantages. Wages would be higher as a united Europe would be free from undercutting, while prices would be low due to mass production. Mosley also claimed that if Europe united, the USSR would offer to withdraw from the east of the continent. The British National Party was a Leeds-based group led by Eddy Morrison during the mid-1970s. The group, which was linked to the League of St. George, helped to organised the White Defence Associations, armed gangs of vigilantes active in areas of racial tension. Morrison would later join John Tyndall's BNP following its formation in 1982. [44]Yet this visionary wasn’t Winston Churchill, who famously supported the idea of a United States of Europe. And it certainly wasn’t the Eurosceptic prime minister Clement Attlee. Rather, it was Britain’s most famous fascist, Oswald Mosley. As time progressed, the group became primarily concerned with opposing non-white immigration into Britain and were instrumental in the founding (with other right-wing and neo-Nazi groups) of the National Front in February 1967. Chesterton's personal anti-Semitism and devotion to conspiracy theories about the Jews and international capitalism also became more prominent in LEL ideology towards the end of the group's life. The League was also strongly anti-communist and had close links with emigre groups such as the Ukrainian National Committee. It also had a vague connection to the economic idea of distributism, inspired to an extent by A. K. Chesterton's familial relationship to G. K. Chesterton. Wright, Simon; Glaze, Ben; Cortbus, Colin (7 June 2014). "Exposed: Rise of Hitler-loving National Action group who want to 'ethnically cleanse' the UK". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 9 August 2014. Individual Glass Coaster. Elegant polished safety toughened glass and heat resistant, matching Place Mats are also available

The New Zealand Front takes its tone from its British counterpart. The two principal evils of international communism and international finance preoccupy National Front thought. Wall Street, it is maintained, is the birthplace of an international conspiracy which has as its aim the submergence of the British Empire. Further, Wall Street is in league with international communism and liberal internationalism. Communists, fellow travellers, liberals and idealists ("the ideal is the enemy of the real"— Spearhead) are often unwitting pawns in this one-world power game and are possessed of the sort of weakness that is likely to poison the tea in British pots.Although the majority of Ashcroft's papers date from the 1990s, when he was active in the National Front and British National Party, the collection does include publications from the 1970s. These include issues of the newspapers 'National Front News', Link opens in a new window 1977-1989, and 'Spearhead' Link opens in a new window, 1975-1992. BNP money man quits after model accuses him of groping her in hotel room. Daily Record. 31 October 2010. In a sense, much of Europe was united in a union, but not in the way Mosley envisioned or would have supported. Ray Hill& Andrew Bell, The Other Face of Terror - Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, London: Collins, 1988, p. 81 The year after the 1958 Notting Hill race riots he stood as a general election candidate in Kensington North, calling for the forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants which would stop the “brothels, vice clubs and all-night parties” and a prohibition of mixed-race marriages.