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Just a note to say that this organisation is officially called the British National Front, so listing under "National Front (UK) is wholly unnecessary, and having the article under British National Front removes the need for a country in parentheses and confusion arising from other groups' bearing the name 'National Front'. Brown Eagle 01:23, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)

I'd say it's still desirable, though. "British National Front" is pretty obscure -- it doesn't even make it onto UK ballot papers, which preserve in aspic "Conservative and Unionist" and "Labour and Co-operative" in some cases. The WP policy seems to be 'official name unless common usage is different', which could be a tad more rigourlessly expressed, but in this case "National Front" is overwhelmingly the 'popular' usage. I'll wait for comments before perpetrating a move, though. Alai 07:17, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I would have to agree with the latter thought. The common name for the political organization is The National Front, and not the British National Front. Also, the appearance of the National Front in N. Ireland pushes for the treatment and necessity of having it be the National Front (United Kingdom). However, that is just how I see things best set for navigation.

Accounts

The accounts filed with the Electoral Commission are rather odd to my eye. Would probably make sense if I were an accountant - which I'm not. Can anyone have a look at and see if they can decode it? Just seems to show bank balances with no idea of turnover. Morwen - Talk 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Win Elections?

Sounds like they've never won an election; could we have a clear statement of how many if any?
--Jerzy•t 01:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I do not believe any acting NF member has ever been elected. Recently, sadly, we have had a fair few BNP councillors elected, but the NF never managed it. Back in the 1970's two far-right councillors were elected in in Blackburn, but these were members of the splinter breakaway "National Party" rather than the NF. The National Party presented itself as more moderate than the NF, just as the BNP does today. After a young Asian man was murdered, National Party leader John Kingsley Read commented "One down - a million to go." Very moderate you see, just like our modern day BNP. -BJG 6.6.06

It should be noted that Kingsley Read always denied the charge, which was made by members of the Anti Nazi League on a tip off from members of the Tyndallite NF - strange bedfellows indeed. Kingsley Read later quit politics & became a well respected community activist before his rather early death: upon which Searchlight claimed he was one of their moles during his NF years all along! Whether this was true or not will now never be known (certainly Gable & Co have never proffered a shred of evidence to substantiate their claim), but it certainly provided a bizarre twist Mark Boyle Talk 19:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

The NF has never won an actual election - however they did have one councillor elected in 1975. This was to Carrickfergus Town Council in Northern Ireland, where there were more seats than actual candidates. There was also two Conservative Party councillors in Wandsworth - one being later Tory notable Athlene O'Connell - who defected to the NF temporarily in 1967. This latter business was surrounded with much skulduggery, as accusations flew later that O'Connell's return to the Tories was to act as a mole Mark Boyle Talk 20:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Ian Myars?

I've removed the claim that Ian Myars "founded" the NF. I for one have never heard of this character within the ranks of the League of Empire Loyalists, the old BNP, the Racial Preservation Society, or anywhere else for that matter! He doesn't even appear as one of the LOEL or BNP negotiators during the talks to create the party.

It's solid fact that A K Chesterton founded the NF, and indeed was responsible for most of the moving, shaking and financing to unite the various far-right groups to create it in the first place. Mark Boyle Talk 20:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

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