The Constitutional Movement was a splinter group from the British National Front, formed in 1979 as the National Front Constitutional Movement by Andrew Fountaine. Offering a more moderate alternative to the NF, the Constitutional Movement claimed to have 2000 members by 1980.
Despite its early promise the Constitutional Movement soon began to flounder (particularly after Fountaine called an end to his political career in 1981) and managed to contest only five seats in the 1983 general election, by which time it had changed its name again, this time to the Nationalist Party. Performing very poorly it made its last appearance in a 1984 by-election in the Southgate constituency, polling only 80 votes in a seat won by Michael Portillo. The party was gone soon after this.
The Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy believes in fair competition among political groups and that free elections should be conducted in an atmosphere of stability.
The Head of State should remain above factional disputes and be a guarantor of the constitution, implementing its precepts and defending the rights of the people in a democratically elected assembly.
An Iraq that is a constitutional monarchy with a presidential-parliamentary type of political regime and a legislature that is selected on the basis outlined offers the best hope for a stable democratic Iraq.
This free-floating reform movement was born under the pressure of the same circumstances that imposed massive changes on state authority.
As a result, the triangle composed of state, society, and the revolutionary movement was replaced by a new, synthetic force that absorbed the old society and portrayed itself (to itself) as a total, all-encompassing structure of authority.
Today, a movement for change has once again merged with state authority, and the financial-political structures (the consortium) that appeared within the reform movement is now germinating within the state.
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