BNP's true Nazi founder dies at 71


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July 20, 2005

BNP's true Nazi founder dies at 71

By Tom Baldwin

THE self-declared Nazi founder of the British National Party died yesterday after a life punctuated by prison sentences and extraordinary feuds amid the flickering political fortunes of the far Right.

John Tyndall, 71, former chairman of the National Front, was found dead by his wife at their home in Hove shortly before 8am. Police said that there were no suspicious circumstances. It is believed that he had a heart attack.

He was expected to appear at Leeds Crown Court tomorrow with Nick Griffin, who ousted him as BNP leader. They faced six charges of inciting racial hatred after being secretly filmed by the BBC addressing far-Right meetings last year.

Mr Tyndall never renounced his Nazi views or abandoned his admiration for Hitler. Matthew Collins, a former National Front colleague who now works for the anti-fascist Searchlight magazine, said: ?This is the end of an era. Tyndall was a thorn in the side of Britain?s ethnic-minority communities for 50 years. We are not sad to see his passing. But we do recognise that, however nasty he was, he had at least some consistency and scruples. Unlike Nick Griffin, who has cut and trimmed to make the BNP appear more acceptable, Tyndall stayed true to his principles of wanting an all-white Britain. He was a true Nazi.?

Mr Tyndall was a leading force in at least seven neo-Nazi and far-Right groups, four of which he subsequently split. He was imprisoned on three occasions for offences ranging from creating a paramilitary organisation to breaking race relations laws. During his last jail sentence, in 1986, he wrote an autobiographical account of his life modelled on Hitler?s Mein Kampf. It was entitled The Eleventh Hour.

After being converted to national socialism during a spell in the Army, he embarked on his political career by joining the League of English Loyalists in 1957. By 1968 Tyndall had joined the National Front and, within two years, he was the party?s chairman.

He presided over the movement?s heyday in the 1970s, when a candidate won second place at a parliamentary election in West Bromwich.

He founded the breakaway New National Front, which in 1982 became the BNP. This he led until 1999 when, in another bitter personal ruction, he was replaced by Mr Griffin, who subsequently twice expelled Tyndall from the party. A BNP spokesman said that although Tyndall was expelled from the party in 2003, and again this year after being readmitted, he was an ?excellent chap with a keen analytical mind?.

Phil Edwards said: ?John was a great fellow who knew exactly what our movement was about. But it is fair to say that he was not able to carry that forward to electoral success.

?It is a pity he did not just stand down. He tried to criticise the current leadership, and he should not have done that.?

Mr Tyndall still regularly topped the bill at BNP rallies, including the one at which he was filmed by the BBC.

Mr Edwards said: ?He was a marvellous speaker. He could hold a room and mesmerise them, but he did not have the answer to the problems. I am sure he would have denied theLIFE AND CRIMES??

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# Born in Exeter on July 14, 1934, and brought up in London. Went to grammar school but not university

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1700894,00.html

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In Britain as a whole they are not that big, but in London itself - they have places devoted to the National Front/BNP.

Radish?

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You would think that in this age people would have better things to do than champion hate and bigotry. But I guess I'm being naive.

Every day a Nazi dies is a good day :)

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In Britain as a whole they are not that big, but in London itself - they have places devoted to the National Front/BNP.

Radish?

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^ yup.

I would never vote for them, there views to me are just against everything that humanity stands for no mater how much they try to pretty up there party at the end of the day there just racists.

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I can't beleive these guys get votes. How big are they in Britian?

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4th Biggest party in the UK now since the last general election.

In Britain as a whole they are not that big, but in London itself - they have places devoted to the National Front/BNP.

Radish?

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4th Biggest party in the UK now since the last general election.

:wacko:

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why is it that you only appear in threads about the BNP?

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Ever read any BNP literature (propaganda)?

It's so pathetic. Plays upon stereotypes, misquoted facts, patronising the reader and highlighting irrational fears.

It's a vaguely legit front for thugs who seriously consider themselves legitimate members of society.

Thugs are one thing, but when they consider themselves legit and actually get funding, it's just sick!

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I swear that for one second, I thought the title read, "BPN's true Nazi founder dies at 71"

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LOL, I did too! :laugh: :ninja:

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