The British National Party was a far right political party that operated in the United Kingdom from 1960 to 1967. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

The party was formed in 1960 by the merger of the National Labour Party and the White Defence League, two political splinter groups from the League of Empire Loyalists pressure group. The party was led by John Bean, with Andrew Fountaine holding the position of Party President, and other leading members including John Tyndall and Colin Jordan (who served as Activities Organiser). The National Labour Party was founded in 1957 by John Bean. ... The White Defence League was a British extreme right-wing political group. ... The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s. ... John Bean is a veteran of the far right scene in Britain. ... Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997) was a veteran of the far right scene in British politics. ... John Tyndall John Hutchyns Tyndall (July 14, 1934 – July 19, 2005) was a far-right British nationalist politician best known for leading the National Front in the 1970s and for founding the British National Party in the 1980s. ... John Colin Campbell Jordan (born June 1923) son of a postman, was a leading representative of postwar National Socialism in Britain and around the world. ...

The BNP started off well, and managed to secure an 8.1% share of the vote in Deptford in the 1960 London elections, a respectable result for a new party without name recognition. Deptford is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham, on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. ... This article is about the British city. ...

Despite this early success the BNP quickly began to break down into arguments as Bean believed that the open Nazism of Jordan and Tyndall was proving damaging to the Party's image and chances of success. After a drawn out dispute over the future of the party, Jordan and Tyndall left in 1962 to set up the National Socialist Movement, leaving the BNP in the hands of Bean and Jordan. The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The National Socialist Movement was a British Neo-Nazi group formed in 1962 by Colin Jordan on Adolf Hitlers birthday as a splinter group from the British National Party. ...

Despite some early growth after the split the BNP failed to make much headway in British politics and suffered a series of disastrous election results in 1966. Fearing that the right was being smothered by disunity, the BNP voluntarily passed out of existence in 1967 when it was one of the constituent parts of the newly formed National Front. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is an extreme right-wing political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. ...

See also

• British Nationalism