Nick Griffin

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Political career

Griffin became a National Front national Front aide after his graduation. He accompanied his father to a National Front meeting as a youth, and by 1978, he was a National organiser for the party. He was instrumental in the establishment of the White Noise Music Club in 1979 and later worked with Skrewdriver, a white power skinhead band. He became a member of the National Directorate of the Party in 1980, and launched Nationalism Today with Joe Pearce, then editor of the NF youth newspaper Bulldog. Griffin twice in the 1981 general election and 1983 general election, winning 1.2% and 0.9 percent of the vote.

Following Margaret Thatcher's election, the National Front's membership fell sharply. As a result, the party became more radical, and a dissatisfied Griffin, as well as fellow NF campaigners Derek Holland and Patrick Harrington, began to embrace the ideals of Italian fascist Roberto Fiore, who had arrived in the United Kingdom in 1980. The party had split away by 1983 and formed the NF Political Soldier faction, which advocated for a revival of country "values" and a return to feudalism with the establishment of nationalist communes. Griffin praised black liberist Louis Farrakhan in 1985, but some members of the opposition found him offensive. He also attempted to form collaborations with Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, and praised the efforts of Welsh nationalist group Meibion Glyndr.

Griffin left the National Front in 1989 after a disagreement with Harrington (who later formed the Third Way) and questions regarding the party's course. He joined the International Third Position (ITP), which was a wing of the Political Soldier movement, but he left the organisation in 1990. He lost his left eye as a result of a missing shotgun cartridge detonated in a pile of burning wood in the same year, and since then, he has been wearing a glass eye. He was unable to work as a result of other financial issues, and he later filed for bankruptcy (the crash occurred in France, where he later lost money in a failed business venture). He remained away from politics for many years, but his parents continued to help him financially. David Irving stewarded a public Holocaust denial meeting later this year.

Griffin returned to politics in 1993, and the British National Party was founded in 1995, at the behest of John Tyndall. (BNP). He has also worked as editor of two right-wing magazines owned by Tyndall, Spearhead, and The Rune. Derek Beackon, the BNP's first councillor, was elected in Millwall, by-election in 1993, he wrote: referring to the election.

Tyndall, who served on the National Front in 1982, was the BNP's founder, but his "brutal, streetfighting experience" and admiration for Hitler and the Nazis made any sort of respectability seeming. Griffin embarked on a campaign to make the party electable in 1999, stripping it of Tyndall's sexisting image. Tyndall's lack of familiarity with mainstream media helped him win the BNP's September election, defeating Tyndall to become the party's leader. Moderating Griffin's shift included moderating the party's emphasis on the elimination of multiculturalism, a program that the party maintains has a damaging effect on both immigrant and British cultures. Griffin promised to ban "the three Hs: hobbyism, hard talk, and Hitler." This realignment was intended to position the BNP among influential European far-right organizations, such as the French Front National, to be positioned alongside more influential European far-right parties. Street demonstrations were supplied by electoral activism, and some policies were modified (ethnic minorities' compulsory repatriation was instead made voluntary). Other measures included capital punishment for paedophiles, rapists, opioid dealers, and some murderers, as well as corporal punishment for less serious offences, such as juvenile delinquency. Griffin's image as a Cambridge-educated family man was in direct contrast to the BNP's hawkish image under Tyndall's leadership. Nick Griffin, who was aided by Tony Lecomber in October 1999, protested Tyndall for the BNP's leadership. Just 30% of the votes were cast, while Griffin's majority, 70 percent, were given.

After joining the BNP, Griffin ran as his party's nominee in several English elections. In 2000, he was in West Bromwich West in a by-election triggered by Betty Boothroyd's resignation. He came in fourth with 794 votes (4.2 percent of those cast). In the 2001 general election, he ran in Oldham West and Royton as a result of the Oldham riots. He received 6,552 votes (16%), coming third ahead of the Liberal Democrats but just behind the second place Conservatives, who received 7,076 votes. In the Oldham Council election, he ran for a seat representing the Chadderton Northward district. He came in second second, out of 993 votes (28%). The party received 134,959 votes (6.4% of those cast) in the 2004 European Parliament election, but secured no seats. He fought Keighley in West Yorkshire in 2005 and finished fourth in fourth place.

Griffin was the BNP candidate in the 2007 Welsh National Assembly Elections in the South Wales West region. The BNP received 8,993 votes (5.5% of those cast), behind Labour's 568,347 (35.8%). He was a no-shower in the Thurrock Council election in October 2007. The entire membership list of the BNP was published on the Internet in November 2008 (although the list may have contained former members of the party and those who had expressed an interest in joining the group but not signed up). Griffin said he knew the person responsible, describing him as a hard-line senior worker who had left the organization in the previous year. He praised the newspaper's coverage, referring to the common belief of the average BNP member as a "skinhead oik" is untrue.

In the 2009 European Parliament, he was elected as a member of North West England. BNP gained two MEPs in a recent poll of 943,598 votes (6.2 percent). As they attempted to hold a celebratory press conference outside the Houses of Parliament, Griffin and fellow MEP Andrew Brons were promptly pelted with eggs. The following day, a second location – a public house near Manchester – was chosen for a second venue. A line of police stymied a large number of protesters, who chanted "No platform for Nazi Nick" and "Nazi scum off our streets," a protester yelled. Griffin regarded the election as a significant win, claiming that his party had been stymied and barred from holding public meetings. "Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been invested in Oldham alone on retaining bogus community employees to keep us out." A political party has never been defeated at such hexagony."

Richard Barnbrook, the BNP representative on the London Assembly, had invited him to join him in the Buckingham Palace garden party held by Queen Elizabeth II in May 2009. Several companies and public figures, including Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and the anti-fascist journal Searchlight, all expressed reservations about the invitation. Griffin turned down this first invitation out of fear of offending the Queen by association, but he accepted it graciously in 2010:

The Palace later decided not to allow Griffin to attend the function, alleging that he had used his invitation "for party political use in the media" and citing security issues. Griffin said the decision was a "complete mess" and that it seemed to be "a rule invented for me."

He pleaded for an additional £50,000 in BNP funding in September 2009. In the letter, he said that the party's fading fortunes were a direct result of "attacks on the party." He also answered Electoral Commission concerns regarding BNP funding's transparency. Griffin appeared at the trial of an Asian man, Tauriq Khalid, in Preston Crown Court in November 2009. Khalid allegedly drove past a Griffin demonstration on two occasions, a second time shouting "white bastards" on the second occasion, according to the charges. Khalid admitted making hurling derisory remarks at Griffin and other protesters, warning the court, "Get the fuck out of Burnley, you're not welcome here," the jury heard, while screaming "nick Griffin, you fucking wanker." Griffin testified against Khalid and confirmed that Khalid had yelled "white bastard" at him. Griffin said the guy "leaned out of the car and pointed at me, made a gun and gang gesture," and that he assaulted him by yelling, "I'm going to..." Griffin said he had left the parade early because he was worried about his safety. The 23-year-old defendant denied that his remarks were motivated by racial motives and was found not guilty. "I think it's unfortunate and I think it's wrong," Griffin later said, but the jury is correct, but the jury has the correct answer. I accept their decision because they had seen all the facts. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it."

He ran in the 2010 general election, receiving 6,620 votes and ending in third place. Griffin barely escaped a leadership challenge in 2011 after losing several of the BNP's seats in England.

Griffin declared in 2010 that he would step down as Prime Minister in 2013 and focus on his European Parliament election campaign. He resigned as Prime Minister of Europe in May 2014 and resigned as BNP leader on July 19, 2014, becoming the organization's president. However, the party declared on October that it had dismissed Griffin, who, according to the party, was "deliberately fabricating a disaster" and was leaking "damaging and defamatory allegations." Following his release from the BNP, he founded British Unity, which he describes as "a rapidly growing army of experienced nationalist publicists and activists." In 2015, he was a founder of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF), the European far-right party. Griffin was elected vice president of APF in 2018 with Griffin as the vice president.

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