Old and Bad-style British National Party in 1991 on Panorama

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This is a short minute video of the British National Party from the early 90s with its different leaders and different members and policies. Its chairman was John Tyndall, the founder of the party and successful chairman of the 70s NF, the national organiser Richard Edmonds who has lived in London most of his life and was an active NF candidate where he stood for Deptford in the October General Election in 1974 and John Morse (not in this video) who was deputy chairman. This episode was taken from Panorama documentary 'Race Hate UK' which was concerned with the racial tensions between people of African, Asian and English descent. The BNP was growing strong in Bethnall Green where its candidate Richard Edmonds polled 1,310 votes gaining 3.6 in the 1992 General Election although no deposits were saved for the party, it was the only constituency that gave them the highest votes and then came the 1993 Millwall borough council by-election, in the former constituency of Bow and Poplar where Tyndall stood gaining 1,107 votes (2.97%) where Derek Beackon polled 1,480 votes beating the Labour party by 7 votes ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBHIVMcNic ). Bethnall Green and Bow and Poplar were placed in the East end of London where the docklands had suffered mass unemployment since the 70s where the docklands were well known for their ship-building and metal works but then eventually they were all closed down and relocated to Felixstowe and Tilbury. The London Docklands Development Corporation did start to invest the area through being tax-free but it made more luxurious housing and gained no support from the community in the early 90s when Bangladeshis were brought all the way to live in luxurious houses whereas local English folk had nothing but scrappy tower-blocks, poor central heating and unemployment. This is what resulted with Derek Beackon making the party's first achievement. Richard Edmonds is the main speaker who gets asked questions about repatriation and crime. I do not endorse the old-style BNP simply because it had a bad image, it had boot-boy skinheads acting like yobs on the streets which shows that this party had a damaged ethos and a contradiction to its policies in regards to law & order and respect even though the real reason why the party had boot-boys was because it was in the East end of London and they were used to defend the party from Marxist attackers. Although you see them raise the Roman salute against their attackers, I am told that that was basically a way to piss around and to piss their attackers off. But like I said, it was disorganised and was infiltrated. The party's leader Tyndall did put too much rhetoric into the party and its policy on repatriation was compulsory towards those of third generation and the party was still blatently no where from 1982 to 1999 but it is now under new membership, better leadership and better policies. All has changed. To let you know, the skinhead with the heavy black jacket including a Nazi badge was Simon Biggs and he was an active Combat 18 member, which was basically a set-up from Special Branch to infiltrate the party to cause mayhem. Now he is North-East regional organiser for the National Front. http://www.national-front.org.uk/agm.htm John Tyndall explains Combat 18 in his 1995 edition of Spearhead- http://web.archive.org/web/19981202044357/www.webcom.com/bnp/expos.html In regards to the 1992 UK General Election, this was the BNP's manifesto 'Fight Back!' http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/bnp_1992.htm