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One of the most notable post-WW2 British Fascist figures was [[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism|A. K. Chesterton]], who created The League Of Empire Loyalists in 1954 after he had fell out with [[File:BritFash.png]] Oswald Mosley. This political group was re-branded into [[File:NFUK.png]] The National Front at 1967, and [[File:Neonazi_ball.png]] [[Nazism|John Tyndall]] took over as leader after it merged with his organisation, the Greater Britain Movement, in 1972. Under Tyndall's leadership it capitalized on growing concern about South Asian migration to Britain, rapidly increasing its membership and vote share in the urban areas of east London and northern England. Its public profile was raised through street marches and rallies, which often resulted in violent clashes with anti-fascist protesters, most notably the 1974 Red Lion Square disorders and the 1977 Battle of Lewisham. In 1982, Tyndall left the National Front to form a new [[File:BNP.png]] British National Party (BNP). Many NF members defected to Tyndall's BNP, contributing to a substantial decline in the Front's electoral support. During the 1980s, the NF split in two; the [[File:FlagGroupNF.png]] [[Fascism|Flag NF]] retained the older ideology, while the [[File:OfficialNF.png]] [[Strasserism|Official NF]] adopted a Third Positionist stance before disbanding in 1990. In 1995, the Flag NF's leadership transformed the party into the

The [[File:BNP.png]] British National Party (BNP), under the leadership of [[File:Neonazi_ball.png]] [[Nazism|John Tyndall]], was originally an openly [[File:Neonazi_ball.png]] [[Nazism|Neo-Nazi]], Anti-Semitic, and [[White Nationalism|White Supremacist]] movement. In 1999, [[File:Griffinism.png]] [[Strasserism|Nick Griffin]] took over as the BNP’s leader. Griffin sought to broaden the BNP's electoral base by presenting a more moderate image (although he and many other party members continued to hold and express fascist views in private), targeting concerns about rising immigration rates, and emphasising localised community campaigns. This resulted in increased electoral growth throughout the 2000s, to the extent that it became the most electorally successful Fascist party in British history.

After peaking in the 2009 European Parliament elections, in which the BNP won two seats, the party subsequently went into decline, with much of its voter base being absorbed by the [[File:UKUKIP.png]] [[National Liberalism|United Kingdom Independence Party]], which was able to appeal to a more widespread number of voters than the BNP due to lacking a direct link to [[Fascism]]. Griffin resigned as BNP leader in 2014, being replaced by Adam Walker, and was expelled from the party a few months later. The BNP has declined to near irrelevance under Walker, who has been accused of treating the party more as a retirement fund than a serious force for politics.