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	John Tyndall became the chairman in 1972 and the party soon put aside internal differences, enjoying a boost in popular support, galvinised largely by [[Idi Amin]]'s expulsion of the South Asians from [[Uganda]]: 27,200 of which were permitted to settle in the [[United Kingdom]] by the corrupt government. During this time the NF became a nationally operating organisation with many new members and gained some experience from [[Monday Club]] defectors. At a by-election in West Bromwich, Martin Webster recieved 16 % of the vote. The NF also came out against joining the [[European Economic Community]]—which would eventually become the [[European Union]]—attacking Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]] as a traitor for surrendering national sovereignty. Solidarity with [[Ulster unionists]] following a mainland [[PIRA]] bombing campaign in 1974 and denouncing communist influence over certain [[trade unions]] filled out the rest of the policy.		John Tyndall became the chairman in 1972 and the party soon put aside internal differences, enjoying a boost in popular support, galvinised largely by [[Idi Amin]]'s expulsion of the South Asians from [[Uganda]]: 27,200 of which were permitted to settle in the [[United Kingdom]] by the corrupt government. During this time the NF became a nationally operating organisation with many new members and gained some experience from [[Monday Club]] defectors. At a by-election in West Bromwich, Martin Webster recieved 16 % of the vote. The NF also came out against joining the [[European Economic Community]]—which would eventually become the [[European Union]]—attacking Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]] as a traitor for surrendering national sovereignty. Solidarity with [[Ulster unionists]] following a mainland [[PIRA]] bombing campaign in 1974 and denouncing communist influence over certain [[trade unions]] filled out the rest of the policy.

	The influx of new members also led to a now familiar scenario: Conservative defectors who agreed with the line of [[Enoch Powell]] and were disillusioned with the [[liberalism]] of their old party wanted to make the NF more "acceptable" to a middle-class audience. Meanwhile, Tyndall's leadership largely rested on the backing of a youthful, working-class base who savoured radicalism as a way to show contempt for the spineless "elites" who were betraying the British people. A general election was held in [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974\|February 1974]], where the NF recieved 0.2% of the vote. Later in the year, the [[BBC]] screened a propaganda film against the NF, manipulating Tyndall's earlier involvement with the NSM to portray the party as so-called "[[Nazi]]s".<ref>John Tyndall had a party political career which lasted for a grand total of 51 years, between 1954 and 2005. For two years of this in the early 1960s, he was a member of [[Colin Jordan]]'s Rockwell inspired National Socialist Movement. Even while part of this group Tyndall was critical of the apropriation of German imagery as "un-British" and left for this reason, later describing this period as a "youthful indiscretion". Ideologically he was looking for a patriotic socialist movement, which rejected the atomised individualism of liberal politics and the cosmopolitanism of the Marxists. Yet, anytime the words "John Tyndall" or "National Front" are mentioned in the controlled media, especially by the [[BBC]], images are displayed of him in NSM uniform from 1962, usually with obligatory references to "[[Hitler]]", "[[~~Holocaust~~]]", "[[Nazi]]" or "[[Auschwitz]]".</ref> The populist [[John Kingsley Read]] thus became chairman for the [[United Kingdom general election, October 1974\|October 1974]] election, where the NF gained 0.4% of the vote.		The influx of new members also led to a now familiar scenario: Conservative defectors who agreed with the line of [[Enoch Powell]] and were disillusioned with the [[liberalism]] of their old party wanted to make the NF more "acceptable" to a middle-class audience. Meanwhile, Tyndall's leadership largely rested on the backing of a youthful, working-class base who savoured radicalism as a way to show contempt for the spineless "elites" who were betraying the British people. A general election was held in [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974\|February 1974]], where the NF recieved 0.2% of the vote. Later in the year, the [[BBC]] screened a propaganda film against the NF, manipulating Tyndall's earlier involvement with the NSM to portray the party as so-called "[[Nazi]]s".<ref>John Tyndall had a party political career which lasted for a grand total of 51 years, between 1954 and 2005. For two years of this in the early 1960s, he was a member of [[Colin Jordan]]'s Rockwell inspired National Socialist Movement. Even while part of this group Tyndall was critical of the apropriation of German imagery as "un-British" and left for this reason, later describing this period as a "youthful indiscretion". Ideologically he was looking for a patriotic socialist movement, which rejected the atomised individualism of liberal politics and the cosmopolitanism of the Marxists. Yet, anytime the words "John Tyndall" or "National Front" are mentioned in the controlled media, especially by the [[BBC]], images are displayed of him in NSM uniform from 1962, usually with obligatory references to "[[Hitler]]", "[[Holohoax]]", "[[Nazi]]" or "[[Auschwitz]]".</ref> The populist [[John Kingsley Read]] thus became chairman for the [[United Kingdom general election, October 1974\|October 1974]] election, where the NF gained 0.4% of the vote.

	Red violence against the Front increased in 1974 also, famously at Red Lion Square. The [[International Marxist Group\|IMG]], a [[Trotskyist]] group under foreign terrorist [[Tariq Ali]] incited attacks on a peaceful march in the ''Red Weekly''. Foreign invaders and degenerated '68-style students were the main useful idiots. The riot that ensued between the reds and the police gained front-page news coverage and cost the life of one red.<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512725.stm On this Day: Man dies in race rally clashes]\|author=[[BBC]]\|date=15 June 1974}} {{com}}</ref> Other Trots such as [[Gerry Healy]] of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party\|WRP]] ramped up anti-patriotic rhetoric, portraying the National Front as on the cusp of a state-backed anti-communist seizure of power like [[Pinochet]] in [[Chile]] or the [[Regime of the Colonels\|military government]] in [[Greece]].		Red violence against the Front increased in 1974 also, famously at Red Lion Square. The [[International Marxist Group\|IMG]], a [[Trotskyist]] group under foreign terrorist [[Tariq Ali]] incited attacks on a peaceful march in the ''Red Weekly''. Foreign invaders and degenerated '68-style students were the main useful idiots. The riot that ensued between the reds and the police gained front-page news coverage and cost the life of one red.<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512725.stm On this Day: Man dies in race rally clashes]\|author=[[BBC]]\|date=15 June 1974}} {{com}}</ref> Other Trots such as [[Gerry Healy]] of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party\|WRP]] ramped up anti-patriotic rhetoric, portraying the National Front as on the cusp of a state-backed anti-communist seizure of power like [[Pinochet]] in [[Chile]] or the [[Regime of the Colonels\|military government]] in [[Greece]].
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	Similar scenes occured in 1977, when Webster organised an anti-muggers protest in [[Battle of Lewisham\|Lewisham]].<ref>The Police Commissioner had admitted that 80% of muggings were being carried out by Black invaders and 85% of these were against the native host population. The National Front came to demonstrate in the defence of the people and their dignity. Many Black criminals had been arrested for their muggings against the people, yet Trotskyists and Black chauvinists were agitating against law and order. This had included the so-called [[Lewisham 21 Defence Committee]] and the jewish founded (by [[Yigael Gluckstein]]) Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]].</ref> During this, Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]] fronts and Black chauvinists attacked police and their horses with bricks, bottles and iron bars. Trots were indifferent to victims of Black muggings because they were using foreigners as a tool to undermine society. 300 reds and foreigners were arrested, yet the mass media the next day tried to blame the NF.		Similar scenes occured in 1977, when Webster organised an anti-muggers protest in [[Battle of Lewisham\|Lewisham]].<ref>The Police Commissioner had admitted that 80% of muggings were being carried out by Black invaders and 85% of these were against the native host population. The National Front came to demonstrate in the defence of the people and their dignity. Many Black criminals had been arrested for their muggings against the people, yet Trotskyists and Black chauvinists were agitating against law and order. This had included the so-called [[Lewisham 21 Defence Committee]] and the jewish founded (by [[Yigael Gluckstein]]) Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]].</ref> During this, Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]] fronts and Black chauvinists attacked police and their horses with bricks, bottles and iron bars. Trots were indifferent to victims of Black muggings because they were using foreigners as a tool to undermine society. 300 reds and foreigners were arrested, yet the mass media the next day tried to blame the NF.

	After dissapointing election results in 1974, factionalism returned to the NF. Eventually the Tyndall-Webster group returned to power in 1976, with populist Read leaving to found the [[National Party (UK, 1976)\|National Party]]. Around this time ''[[Searchlight]]'', a Ziono-communist magazine led by [[Gerry Gable]], a former member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain\|Communist Party]] was founded to attack patriots. This, as well as other media cases, was a specifically [[jewish supremacist]] attack on British fascists, eliciting more focus on resisting [[Zionists]] and efforts to publish research questioning [[jewish casualties during World War II\|their accounts of WWII]].<ref>It was during the 1970s that [[Elie Wiesel]] began popularising the phrase "[[~~Holocaust~~]]" to describe jewish accounts of their alleged experience during World War II. The media attempted to portray the NF as so-called "Nazis", tying this together with concepts of "the ~~Holocaust~~". Thus British patriots opposing the foreign invasion into their country, mostly by Blacks and Asians, was portrayed as wanting to "gas millions of jews in [[Auschwitz]]." In the face of this propaganda onslaught, some NF members investigated and authored important revisionist pieces, such as ''[[Did Six Million Really Die?]]'' by [[Richard Verrall]] in 1974.</ref> Yet despite the press attempts to portray the National Front as so-called "Nazis", membership in groups such as the [[League of Saint George]] was proscribed by Webster for NF members. The case where the Front came to the defence of [[Robert Relf]] in 1976—who had been jailed for advertising his house for sale only to native English people—gained much attention and many new members. That year they gained 20% of the vote in local elections in [[Leicester]]. The following year, they became the fourth largest party in the country, beating the [[Liberal Party]] in many local election seats, with the aforementioned Lewisham march in the headlines		After dissapointing election results in 1974, factionalism returned to the NF. Eventually the Tyndall-Webster group returned to power in 1976, with populist Read leaving to found the [[National Party (UK, 1976)\|National Party]]. Around this time ''[[Searchlight]]'', a Ziono-communist magazine led by [[Gerry Gable]], a former member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain\|Communist Party]] was founded to attack patriots. This, as well as other media cases, was a specifically [[jewish supremacist]] attack on British fascists, eliciting more focus on resisting [[Zionists]] and efforts to publish research questioning [[jewish casualties during World War II\|their accounts of WWII]].<ref>It was during the 1970s that [[Elie Wiesel]] began popularising the phrase "[[Holohoax]]" to describe jewish accounts of their alleged experience during World War II. The media attempted to portray the NF as so-called "Nazis", tying this together with concepts of "the Holohoax". Thus British patriots opposing the foreign invasion into their country, mostly by Blacks and Asians, was portrayed as wanting to "gas millions of jews in [[Auschwitz]]." In the face of this propaganda onslaught, some NF members investigated and authored important revisionist pieces, such as ''[[Did Six Million Really Die?]]'' by [[Richard Verrall]] in 1974.</ref> Yet despite the press attempts to portray the National Front as so-called "Nazis", membership in groups such as the [[League of Saint George]] was proscribed by Webster for NF members. The case where the Front came to the defence of [[Robert Relf]] in 1976—who had been jailed for advertising his house for sale only to native English people—gained much attention and many new members. That year they gained 20% of the vote in local elections in [[Leicester]]. The following year, they became the fourth largest party in the country, beating the [[Liberal Party]] in many local election seats, with the aforementioned Lewisham march in the headlines

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	==Etymology==		==Etymology==
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	The origins of the name of the party date back as far as 1944, from a short-lived organisation founded by [[A. K. Chesterton]] known as the '''National Front after Victory Group'''. They were opposed to the all encompassing [[~~Jewish~~ supremacist]] quest for full spectrum domination, however, they advocated a Britain First policy, rather than serving the [[Axis forces]] (this is somewhat similar to the view of [[Charles Maurras]] in regards to [[France]] and it's politics). Chesterton himself served in the [[British Army]] in Africa during the [[Second World War]] and the plan was to create a fascist party after victory.		The origins of the name of the party date back as far as 1944, from a short-lived organisation founded by [[A. K. Chesterton]] known as the '''National Front after Victory Group'''. They were opposed to the all encompassing [[jewish supremacist]] quest for full spectrum domination, however, they advocated a Britain First policy, rather than serving the [[Axis forces]] (this is somewhat similar to the view of [[Charles Maurras]] in regards to [[France]] and it's politics). Chesterton himself served in the [[British Army]] in Africa during the [[Second World War]] and the plan was to create a fascist party after victory.

	Other prominent members of the group were Major-General [[J. F. C. Fuller]], the [[Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth\|Earl of Portsmouth]] and [[Henry Williamson]], surrounding the ''[[Truth (British magazine)\|Truth]]'' journal.<ref>{{harvnb\|Lunn\|1989\|p=77}}.</ref> The [[British People's Party (1939-1946)\|British People's Party]] patronised by the [[Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford\|Duke of Bedford]] and the [[British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women]] (a fascist alternative to the establishment's [[Royal British Legion]]) were affiliated under the umbrella of the National Front after Victory Group for a time. This group floundered but part of the name was revived by Chesterton for this party in 1967, in the form of the '''National Front'''.		Other prominent members of the group were Major-General [[J. F. C. Fuller]], the [[Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth\|Earl of Portsmouth]] and [[Henry Williamson]], surrounding the ''[[Truth (British magazine)\|Truth]]'' journal.<ref>{{harvnb\|Lunn\|1989\|p=77}}.</ref> The [[British People's Party (1939-1946)\|British People's Party]] patronised by the [[Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford\|Duke of Bedford]] and the [[British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women]] (a fascist alternative to the establishment's [[Royal British Legion]]) were affiliated under the umbrella of the National Front after Victory Group for a time. This group floundered but part of the name was revived by Chesterton for this party in 1967, in the form of the '''National Front'''.
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	Red violence against the Front increased in 1974 also, famously at Red Lion Square. The [[International Marxist Group\|IMG]], a [[Trotskyist]] group under foreign terrorist [[Tariq Ali]] incited attacks on a peaceful march in the ''Red Weekly''. Foreign invaders and degenerated '68-style students were the main useful idiots. The riot that ensued between the reds and the police gained front-page news coverage and cost the life of one red.<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512725.stm On this Day: Man dies in race rally clashes]\|author=[[BBC]]\|date=15 June 1974}} {{com}}</ref> Other Trots such as [[Gerry Healy]] of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party\|WRP]] ramped up anti-patriotic rhetoric, portraying the National Front as on the cusp of a state-backed anti-communist seizure of power like [[Pinochet]] in [[Chile]] or the [[Regime of the Colonels\|military government]] in [[Greece]].		Red violence against the Front increased in 1974 also, famously at Red Lion Square. The [[International Marxist Group\|IMG]], a [[Trotskyist]] group under foreign terrorist [[Tariq Ali]] incited attacks on a peaceful march in the ''Red Weekly''. Foreign invaders and degenerated '68-style students were the main useful idiots. The riot that ensued between the reds and the police gained front-page news coverage and cost the life of one red.<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512725.stm On this Day: Man dies in race rally clashes]\|author=[[BBC]]\|date=15 June 1974}} {{com}}</ref> Other Trots such as [[Gerry Healy]] of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party\|WRP]] ramped up anti-patriotic rhetoric, portraying the National Front as on the cusp of a state-backed anti-communist seizure of power like [[Pinochet]] in [[Chile]] or the [[Regime of the Colonels\|military government]] in [[Greece]].

	Similar scenes occured in 1977, when Webster organised an anti-muggers protest in [[Battle of Lewisham\|Lewisham]].<ref>The Police Commissioner had admitted that 80% of muggings were being carried out by Black invaders and 85% of these were against the native host population. The National Front came to demonstrate in the defence of the people and their dignity. Many Black criminals had been arrested for their muggings against the people, yet Trotskyists and Black chauvinists were agitating against law and order. This had included the so-called [[Lewisham 21 Defence Committee]] and the ~~Jewish~~ founded (by [[Yigael Gluckstein]]) Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]].</ref> During this, Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]] fronts and Black chauvinists attacked police and their horses with bricks, bottles and iron bars. Trots were indifferent to victims of Black muggings because they were using foreigners as a tool to undermine society. 300 reds and foreigners were arrested, yet the mass media the next day tried to blame the NF.		Similar scenes occured in 1977, when Webster organised an anti-muggers protest in [[Battle of Lewisham\|Lewisham]].<ref>The Police Commissioner had admitted that 80% of muggings were being carried out by Black invaders and 85% of these were against the native host population. The National Front came to demonstrate in the defence of the people and their dignity. Many Black criminals had been arrested for their muggings against the people, yet Trotskyists and Black chauvinists were agitating against law and order. This had included the so-called [[Lewisham 21 Defence Committee]] and the jewish founded (by [[Yigael Gluckstein]]) Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]].</ref> During this, Trotskyist [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)\|SWP]] fronts and Black chauvinists attacked police and their horses with bricks, bottles and iron bars. Trots were indifferent to victims of Black muggings because they were using foreigners as a tool to undermine society. 300 reds and foreigners were arrested, yet the mass media the next day tried to blame the NF.

	After dissapointing election results in 1974, factionalism returned to the NF. Eventually the Tyndall-Webster group returned to power in 1976, with populist Read leaving to found the [[National Party (UK, 1976)\|National Party]]. Around this time ''[[Searchlight]]'', a Ziono-communist magazine led by [[Gerry Gable]], a former member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain\|Communist Party]] was founded to attack patriots. This, as well as other media cases, was a specifically [[~~Jewish~~ supremacist]] attack on British fascists, eliciting more focus on resisting [[Zionists]] and efforts to publish research questioning [[~~Jewish~~ casualties during World War II\|their accounts of WWII]].<ref>It was during the 1970s that [[Elie Wiesel]] began popularising the phrase "[[Holocaust]]" to describe ~~Jewish~~ accounts of their alleged experience during World War II. The media attempted to portray the NF as so-called "Nazis", tying this together with concepts of "the Holocaust". Thus British patriots opposing the foreign invasion into their country, mostly by Blacks and Asians, was portrayed as wanting to "gas millions of ~~Jews~~ in [[Auschwitz]]." In the face of this propaganda onslaught, some NF members investigated and authored important revisionist pieces, such as ''[[Did Six Million Really Die?]]'' by [[Richard Verrall]] in 1974.</ref> Yet despite the press attempts to portray the National Front as so-called "Nazis", membership in groups such as the [[League of Saint George]] was proscribed by Webster for NF members. The case where the Front came to the defence of [[Robert Relf]] in 1976—who had been jailed for advertising his house for sale only to native English people—gained much attention and many new members. That year they gained 20% of the vote in local elections in [[Leicester]]. The following year, they became the fourth largest party in the country, beating the [[Liberal Party]] in many local election seats, with the aforementioned Lewisham march in the headlines		After dissapointing election results in 1974, factionalism returned to the NF. Eventually the Tyndall-Webster group returned to power in 1976, with populist Read leaving to found the [[National Party (UK, 1976)\|National Party]]. Around this time ''[[Searchlight]]'', a Ziono-communist magazine led by [[Gerry Gable]], a former member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain\|Communist Party]] was founded to attack patriots. This, as well as other media cases, was a specifically [[jewish supremacist]] attack on British fascists, eliciting more focus on resisting [[Zionists]] and efforts to publish research questioning [[jewish casualties during World War II\|their accounts of WWII]].<ref>It was during the 1970s that [[Elie Wiesel]] began popularising the phrase "[[Holocaust]]" to describe jewish accounts of their alleged experience during World War II. The media attempted to portray the NF as so-called "Nazis", tying this together with concepts of "the Holocaust". Thus British patriots opposing the foreign invasion into their country, mostly by Blacks and Asians, was portrayed as wanting to "gas millions of jews in [[Auschwitz]]." In the face of this propaganda onslaught, some NF members investigated and authored important revisionist pieces, such as ''[[Did Six Million Really Die?]]'' by [[Richard Verrall]] in 1974.</ref> Yet despite the press attempts to portray the National Front as so-called "Nazis", membership in groups such as the [[League of Saint George]] was proscribed by Webster for NF members. The case where the Front came to the defence of [[Robert Relf]] in 1976—who had been jailed for advertising his house for sale only to native English people—gained much attention and many new members. That year they gained 20% of the vote in local elections in [[Leicester]]. The following year, they became the fourth largest party in the country, beating the [[Liberal Party]] in many local election seats, with the aforementioned Lewisham march in the headlines

	===Flag Group and Political Soldier===		===Flag Group and Political Soldier===
	Going into the [[United Kingdom general election, 1979\|1979]] election there was confidence, with widespread strikes in the [[Winter of Discontent]], anti-communism high due to the [[Cold War]] and unrest at the foreign invasion. They fielded over 300 candidates, yet failed to get a single [[Member of Parliament]] elected, though their vote went up to 0.6%. Some reds attempted to attribute this to the violent campaign by the Trotskyist [[SWP's ANL]] and propaganda through so-called [[Rock Against Racism\|Rock Against "Racism"]], which played on contemporary rock and punk subculture, to which the NF responded with [[Rock Against Communism]]. In reality however, [[Margaret Thatcher]] saying to the public that she understood their concerns about the foreign invasion, her strong leadership qualities and anti-communism saw the public turn to the Conservatives instead. Despite some sympathetic nods from [[Alan Clark]], Thatcher's reign turned out to be a [[Churchill]]-like pseudo-patriotic hoax. ~~Jews~~ were hugely<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/87027/thatcher-and-the-jews Thatcher and the ~~Jews~~]\|author=TabletMag.com\|date=10 September 2013}}</ref> over represented in her cabinet (25% of the posts), [[Keith Joseph]] was her chief ideologue and neo-liberal economic policies similar to post-[[Perestroika]] Russia were enacted.		Going into the [[United Kingdom general election, 1979\|1979]] election there was confidence, with widespread strikes in the [[Winter of Discontent]], anti-communism high due to the [[Cold War]] and unrest at the foreign invasion. They fielded over 300 candidates, yet failed to get a single [[Member of Parliament]] elected, though their vote went up to 0.6%. Some reds attempted to attribute this to the violent campaign by the Trotskyist [[SWP's ANL]] and propaganda through so-called [[Rock Against Racism\|Rock Against "Racism"]], which played on contemporary rock and punk subculture, to which the NF responded with [[Rock Against Communism]]. In reality however, [[Margaret Thatcher]] saying to the public that she understood their concerns about the foreign invasion, her strong leadership qualities and anti-communism saw the public turn to the Conservatives instead. Despite some sympathetic nods from [[Alan Clark]], Thatcher's reign turned out to be a [[Churchill]]-like pseudo-patriotic hoax. jews were hugely<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/87027/thatcher-and-the-jews Thatcher and the jews]\|author=TabletMag.com\|date=10 September 2013}}</ref> over represented in her cabinet (25% of the posts), [[Keith Joseph]] was her chief ideologue and neo-liberal economic policies similar to post-[[Perestroika]] Russia were enacted.

	The aftermath of the poor result left Tyndall isolated, not only from the populists, but also Webster. The latter dispute arose due to tactics; Webster felt that [[skinheads]] and [[football]] firms were suitable patriotic manpower in response to red and foreign violence, while Tyndall felt this damaged "respectability" among the public. [[Andrew Brons]] became a compromise chairman in 1980, while Tyndall left to form the New National Front, which became the [[British National Party]] in 1982. By 1983, it was the turn of Webster to be ousted, both the populists and [[third positionists]] were against him, so he founded the short-lived [[Our Nation]] group, before semi-retirement from politics.		The aftermath of the poor result left Tyndall isolated, not only from the populists, but also Webster. The latter dispute arose due to tactics; Webster felt that [[skinheads]] and [[football]] firms were suitable patriotic manpower in response to red and foreign violence, while Tyndall felt this damaged "respectability" among the public. [[Andrew Brons]] became a compromise chairman in 1980, while Tyndall left to form the New National Front, which became the [[British National Party]] in 1982. By 1983, it was the turn of Webster to be ousted, both the populists and [[third positionists]] were against him, so he founded the short-lived [[Our Nation]] group, before semi-retirement from politics.

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	==Public enlightenment==		==Public enlightenment==
	{{Main\|List of British fascist publications}}		{{Main\|List of British fascist publications}}
	Throughout it's history, the National Front have had a variety of different publications supporting their cause. Typically these journals are tied to a personality or leader and thus the party has had a different official publication depending on the time period. The original and oldest extant publication is ''[[Candour]]'' which was tied to [[A. K. Chesterton]] and actually existed before the NF was formed. Following this, notable publications include ''[[Spearhead (publication)\|Spearhead]]'' tied to [[John Tyndall]] and newspapers such as ''[[Britain First (newspaper)\|Britain First]]'' and ''[[NF News]]''. During the factionalism of the 1980s, the ''[[Rising]]'' publication of [[Derek Holland]] was tied to the [[Official National Front]], while ''[[The Flag]]'' was tied to [[Martin Wingfield]] and the Flag National Front. The Front was very slow to enter the [[internet]] age under technophobe chairman [[Tom Holmes]] and unlike the [[British National Party]], they have never had a really high quality website. Today, however, there are two prominent weekly [[internet radio]] shows and podcasts which are largely pro-NF; [[Paul Hickman]]<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://www.renegadebroadcasting.com/paul-hickman/ Paul Hickman]\|author=[[Renegade Broadcasting]]\|date=15 January 2013}}</ref> with ''[[The Voice of Albion]]'' on [[Renegade Broadcasting]] and [[David Jones]] with ''[[The Atlantic Axis]]'' on the [[American ~~Nationalist~~ Network]].		Throughout it's history, the National Front have had a variety of different publications supporting their cause. Typically these journals are tied to a personality or leader and thus the party has had a different official publication depending on the time period. The original and oldest extant publication is ''[[Candour]]'' which was tied to [[A. K. Chesterton]] and actually existed before the NF was formed. Following this, notable publications include ''[[Spearhead (publication)\|Spearhead]]'' tied to [[John Tyndall]] and newspapers such as ''[[Britain First (newspaper)\|Britain First]]'' and ''[[NF News]]''. During the factionalism of the 1980s, the ''[[Rising]]'' publication of [[Derek Holland]] was tied to the [[Official National Front]], while ''[[The Flag]]'' was tied to [[Martin Wingfield]] and the Flag National Front. The Front was very slow to enter the [[internet]] age under technophobe chairman [[Tom Holmes]] and unlike the [[British National Party]], they have never had a really high quality website. Today, however, there are two prominent weekly [[internet radio]] shows and podcasts which are largely pro-NF; [[Paul Hickman]]<ref>{{cite news \|title=[http://www.renegadebroadcasting.com/paul-hickman/ Paul Hickman]\|author=[[Renegade Broadcasting]]\|date=15 January 2013}}</ref> with ''[[The Voice of Albion]]'' on [[Renegade Broadcasting]] and [[David Jones]] with ''[[The Atlantic Axis]]'' on the [[American Fascist Network]].

	==Loyalism controversy==		==Loyalism controversy==
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	*[http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Front-Official-Page/164965506991482 National Front Official Page] at [[Facebook]]		*[http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Front-Official-Page/164965506991482 National Front Official Page] at [[Facebook]]
	*[http://www.youtube.com/user/fascistvideo National Front] at [[YouTube]]		*[http://www.youtube.com/user/fascistvideo National Front] at [[YouTube]]
	*[http://natsentinel.blogspot.co.uk/ ~~Nationalist~~ Sentinel] at Blogspot.co.uk		*[http://natsentinel.blogspot.co.uk/ Fascist Sentinel] at Blogspot.co.uk
	*[http://www.stormfront.org/forum/f39/ Britain Section] at [[Stormfront]]		*[http://www.stormfront.org/forum/f39/ Britain Section] at [[Stormfront]]
	*[http://thebritishresistance.co.uk/the-editor/1834-time-to-talk-about-the-national-front Time to talk about the National Front] by the Green Arrow		*[http://thebritishresistance.co.uk/the-editor/1834-time-to-talk-about-the-national-front Time to talk about the National Front] by the Green Arrow

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