Sheriff, Lucy (6 March 2014). "Meet New Neo-Nazi Group National Action Which Just Wants To 'Piss People Off' ". Huffington Post . Retrieved 9 August 2014. 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. It is hard to deny that there was a kind of symbiosis between this incarnation of the League and a Conservative Party that was then moving fast towards the centre and increasingly betraying any sense of British interest. For this reason he is a clear prism. The forces acting on him are never dissipated in murky doubts, self-interest, fear, or confusion, but thrown into sharp relief by his always upstanding response to them. At times this gives him the aura of a hero from a Greek tragedy as we see him reacting to the forces of dissolution and pursuing, without compromise, his own self-realization and political destiny. British Empire Far Right League Of Empire Loyalists Pressure Group Protest Right Right Wing Secretary Stunt

Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000, p. 176 As might be expected in the light of this aim, the Front has often been described as racist. ("There is an old Anglo-Saxon word that is fittingly synonymous with moderation. It is the word Gutless Ness"—Candour). If regarding negroes as the heathen force of darkness and Anglo-Saxons as angels of light (Rhodesia and South Africa being the last non-gutless bastions of honour and civilisation), constitutes racialism then the suggestion that the Front is a racist organisation would be correct. The Front's publications would have us believe that Brooks in particular was an ideal example of the LEL activist — a large man with a bushy red beard who was prepared to do anything to challenge the cosy consensus of the post-war world. Although the LEL actively supported an independent candidate who was a member at the 1957 Lewisham North by-election, it was not a political party. [6] According to Nigel Fielding, the LEL "was composed of right-wing Conservatives, particularly retired military men, and a few pre-war Fascists". [7] Stunts [ edit ] Police were forced to close the meeting within three minutes and made 54 arrests, among them Mosley’s son Max – later the boss of Formula 1 – who was subsequently acquitted of any charges.

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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. Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, Pinter (2000) p 192 The first chapter “Beginnings” details how A.K. was set on his path. He was then working for a magazine called “Truth”:

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]In Italy, following the collapse of Mussolini’s government in 1943, the remaining fascists set up a new state and party in Salo which became known as the Salo Republic. As part of a new manifesto an argument was made for the realisation of a European Community, with a federation of all nations” who agreed with fascist principles. Most European far-right parties ultimately preferred to maintain and promote their own distinct national character, as did many British fascists. Mosley’s “Europe a nation” policy alienated many on the UK’s extreme right, where his influence waned. Many were drawn instead to the League of Empire Loyalists, led by former BUF man Arthur K Chesterton, which was more concerned with preserving the British Empire than constructing a union with other European states. a b Colin Liddell (14 February 2013). "The launch of the BDP". Radix. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017.