Английская Википедия:British Democratic Party (2013)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox political party The British Democratic Party (BDP), commonly known as the British Democrats, is a British far-right[1] political party. It was registered with the Electoral Commission in 2011,[2] and officially launched in 2013 at a Leicestershire village hall by a ten-member steering committee which included former members of several political parties including the British National Party (BNP), Democratic Nationalists, Freedom Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP).[1]
The party's inaugural president was Andrew Brons, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).[1] Brons had been a member of the BNP and a leading member of the National Front (NF). The steering committee included a number of others with a history of membership in fascist and neo-Nazi groups,[3] who believed that the BNP had been corrupted and watered-down.[1]
History
Brons resigned from the BNP in October 2012, after narrowly failing in his campaign to unseat Nick Griffin as leader of the party in 2011. A number of other disillusioned BNP members have joined him, including Kevin Scott, founder and director of Civil Liberty and former party organiser for the British National Party in the North East. Other notable members of the party include:
- John Bean, (died 2021) the former editor of the British National Party magazine Identity,
- Brian Parker, longest-serving far-right local councillor in British history and the last elected representative of the BNP,[4]
- Derek Beackon, a former National Front member and the first ever electoral success of the BNP, serving as a councillor of Millwall ward in Tower Hamlets Borough after winning a 1993 by-election,[5]
In 2013, Nick Lowles, of Hope not Hate, believed the party would be a serious threat to the BNP, commenting, "The BDP brings together all of the hardcore Holocaust deniers and racists that have walked away from the BNP over the last two to three years, plus those previously, who could not stomach the party’s image changes.... They and the BNP already have a mutual hatred of each other and neither party will stop until they’ve killed the other one off. The gloves will be off and it will be toxic".[1]
Electoral performance
In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, the party nominated one candidate, the BDP chairman, Jim Lewthwaite in Bradford East. He won 210 votes, 0.5% of the total cast.[6]
The party gained a parish councillor in March 2022, when John Robinson, who was elected to Barnham and Eastergate Parish Council in West Sussex as an independent, joined the BDP.[7] In July 2022, Julian Leppert, an elected councillor representing the For Britain Movement on Epping Forest District Council in Essex, joined the BDP.[8] The party gained another parish councillor in August 2022, when Roger Robertson, an elected councillor in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, joined the British Democrats. He like Leppert was also a former member of the For Britain Movement.[9]
Later that month, BDP candidate Lawrence Rustem was elected unopposed to Detling Parish Council in Kent, in what was the party's first ever election victory.[10][11] In October 2022, the BDP candidate, Christopher Bateman, was elected to Noak Bridge Parish Council in Basildon, Essex, with 74% of the vote against one other candidate who was an independent.[12]
The British Democrats, whose campaign received support from far-right hate group Patriotic Alternative, stood five candidates in the 2023 local elections.[13] All candidates failed to win their contests, with Julian Leppert losing the party's only seat above parish council level.[14]
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Further reading
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