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The History of the League of Empire Loyalists and Candour

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Two years later, in Tomorrow We Live, he declared that BUF policy was in favour of a “united Europe” and a “New Europe”. In 1940, shortly after the fall of France and Churchill’s arrival in Downing Street, Mosley – who was then calling for Britain to accept Hitler’s offer of peace – was interned under Defence Regulation 18B. Merkl, Peter H. and Leonard Weinberg, Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century (London, England and Portland, Oregon, USA: Frank Cass Publishers), p. 127. Leamington Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Committee (LARAFC) was formed in 1977. The archive collection includes minutes, newsletters, press releases, circulars, press cuttings and photographs, as well as some examples of far right publications. Leamington Spa hit the national headlines in 1976, when the far right activist Robert Relf was imprisoned for contempt of court after refusing to take down a racist sign advertising the sale of his house. The sentence resulted in protests and counter-demonstrations, particularly in the Midlands.

The New Zealand Front takes its tone from its British counterpart. The two principal evils of international communism and international finance preoccupy National Front thought. Wall Street, it is maintained, is the birthplace of an international conspiracy which has as its aim the submergence of the British Empire. Further, Wall Street is in league with international communism and liberal internationalism. Communists, fellow travellers, liberals and idealists ("the ideal is the enemy of the real"— Spearhead) are often unwitting pawns in this one-world power game and are possessed of the sort of weakness that is likely to poison the tea in British pots. The British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women had its roots in a 1937 former soldiers' welfare group. [12] This was taken over by Jeffrey Hamm in 1944 and became a Mosleyite group. It was absorbed into the Union Movement in 1948. It is at this point of the story that we meet the mysterious R.K. Jeffery, a millionaire Englishman based in Chile, who proved to be A.K.’s greatest benefactor, donating the large amount of money that Candour and later the League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) needed to stay in the fight. One of the most interesting parts of the book concerns the later death of Jeffery and the apparent shenanigans carried out by his relatives that prevented the inheritance coming into the hands of the LEL. Who knows how Jeffery’s millions might have impacted on British nationalist politics?New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Wellington Branch. Notice of meeting - speaker Dr R M Campbell, economic advisor to the New Zealand High Commission in London. Flier As time progressed, the group became primarily concerned with opposing non-white immigration into Britain and were instrumental in the founding (with other right-wing and neo-Nazi groups) of the National Front in February 1967. Chesterton's personal anti-Semitism and devotion to conspiracy theories about the Jews and international capitalism also became more prominent in LEL ideology towards the end of the group's life. The League was also strongly anti-communist and had close links with emigre groups such as the Ukrainian National Committee. It also had a vague connection to the economic idea of distributism, inspired to an extent by A. K. Chesterton's familial relationship to G. K. Chesterton. There were links between the Union Movement and the Fascist Irish nationalist party Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. Ailtirí had taken a pro-Axis stance during “the emergency”, as the war was known in neutral Ireland, and attracted former Blueshirts, the 1930’s equivalent of the BUF. Roger Griffin (11 August 2005). Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion (Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions). Routledge 1 edition. ISBN 978-0-415-37550-4.

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. Mosley saw this as an opportunity to create an administration of experts who would be better equipped to provide good government. Businesses would also be given relative freedom while workers would be grouped in organisations known as “labour charters”, another policy borrowed from Il Duce’s Italy. BNP money man quits after model accuses him of groping her in hotel room. Daily Record. 31 October 2010.

It specialized in a particular brand of vigorous, independent journalism that possessed a John Bull quality in its proclamation of the virtues and values of the British Empire. The Manchester Guardian once described it as being ‘almost the last remaining home of the declining art of invective.’ A polemical writer of A.K.’s calibre could not have felt out of place on its staff with his talents in that field! (p. 13) 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. 188 To permit the association with this new world system of approved Afro-Asian countries on terms acceptable to all the foundation members.

a b Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, 2002, p. 177 As its name suggests, the initial aim of the LEL was to support the British Empire and to campaign for its continuing existence. [6] It was to be its calls for the restoration of the empire and reassertion of the notion of Britons as the world's natural leaders that ultimately saw the group become estranged from the Conservatives, as the League was increasingly divorced from the one nation conservatism that came to dominate the party. [14] This was particularly true following the independence of Sudan and the Suez Crisis in 1956 when the Conservatives formally broke from any notion of being the party of empire. [15]

United Nations Association of New Zealand. Wellington Branch. Newsletter 1 August 1951 re lecture on Abadan To replace what is known as 'The Commonwealth" by a modern British world system which, while ensuring the sovereign independence of each nation, would work for the closest co-operation between the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia. Canada, and Rhodesia, and in which, if they so desired, the Republics of South Africa and Ireland would each occupy an honoured place. 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 The National Labour Party was another splinter group from the League of Empire Loyalists, founded by John Bean in 1957. The group was similar to the White Defence League, albeit along the lines of a political party rather than a pressure group, and the two merged to form the British National Party in 1960. [19] 1960s [ edit ] British National Party [ edit ] 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.

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