John Kingsley Read (1937 – 1985) was chairman of the British National Front from 1974 to 1976. A former member of the Conservative Party and chairman of the Blackburn Young Conservatives he left to join NF in the early 70s. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is an far right political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... The Conservative Party is one of the two largest political parties in the United Kingdom and the most successful party in political history based on election victories. ... This article is about Blackburn in Lancashire, England. ... The Young Conservatives were the youth wing of Britains Conservative Party. ...

Read was elected Chairman of the National Front on October 21, 1974 in a victory for the 'populist' or neo-Imperialist wing of the party over the supporters of John Tyndall who had an overtly National Socialist (i.e. Nazi) background. Tyndall refused to accept his defeat and attempted to overturn it through the courts, eventually succeeding in 1976. October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... Imperialism is the policy of extending the control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. ... 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. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Read then quit the party along with many of his followers to establish the more respectable National Party of the United Kingdom. The party was initially successful, winning two seats on Blackburn Council, although they failed to build on this early success and Read eventually left active politics. After the murder of a young Asian man by racists at this time, Read made the statement "One down, a million to go", which effectively ended his presentation of a more moderate stance. He subsequently became a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher and her policy of privatisation, and is believed to have re-joined the Conservative Party before he died. The National Party was formed on January 6, 1976 by John Kingsley Read as a less extreme alternative to the National Front. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ...