[…] soil fertility as the basis of sound nutrition. Over the intervening four decades and more, the organic movement has attracted support from Tories, members of UKIP, the BNP, senior Labour politicians, supporters of CND, anarchists, members of the Socialist Alliance, Lib Dems, and, inevitably, Greens. All this is a matter of empirical fact, and, […]
[…] appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is […]
[…] of its first appearance, dismissing it because one of the many leads Pepper turned up was a Sid Carthew who, unbeknown to be Pepper, is a former BNP member. Cohen used the syllogism first used by Searchlight: Carthew is a fascist therefore Carthew is not reliable; Pepper quoted Carthew therefore the book is not […]
[…] 1988/9 ….the work involved my joining the British National Party and meeting some very dangerous individuals. Within weeks of moving to London I was working at the BNP headquarters where I had access to the names and addresses of hundreds of fascist activists and sympathisers. These were passed onto the Searchlight team. In addition, […]
[…] Eye 3, p. 5) was about the agent provocateur Tim Hepple who worked on behalf of Searchlight and was, according to them, meant to be infiltrating the BNP. Hepple, however spent a lot of time infi-trating green and anarchist groups, urging them towards violence. The Hepple episode took place in the last 2-3 years […]
[…] The first one I have come across is a short letter from Worcester branch, dated 21 April 1986, announcing that some members were leaving to form a BNP branch. The next is from Wilfrid Smith, chairman of Blackpool and Fylde branch who, in July 1986, issued a vain appeal to ‘everybody to settle their […]
[…] assessment.’ ‘Political’ is defined in the broadest terms, so entries include not only merely ideological and political groups or parties, like the SWP, or Militant, or the BNP, but single issue pressure groups supporting environmentalism, animal rights, health issues and the like. Quangos, charities, think tanks, professional bodies (like the BMA), trade unions and […]
[…] TW, Box NDF, 72 Radford Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7. Shot by both sides: a response to paranoia and disinformation, by Paul Cox Cox was in the BNP when young, changed his mind and has since been researching the British right for a book. He contacted Gerry Gable at Searchlight who offered to swop […]
[…] Cabinet. But the impact of this new state form is disproportionately visited upon different members of an increasingly fragmented working class and wider society. For example, a BNP councillor can get two years for bomb-making in Manchester while Muslims with a few dodgy contacts can get life imprisonment for paint-balling in the Lake District. […]
[…] influence over its direction, but that large part of the electorate who see little meaningful difference between any of them and are looking elsewhere, including at the BNP. Oborne recounts a visit to the traditional Labour heartland of Dagenham and Barking with local MP and unsuccessful 2007 Labour deputy leader candidate Jon Cruddas. ‘It […]
