The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s. A special interest is a person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of one particular interest or issue. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps The British Empire was one of the worlds first global powers, a product of the European Age of Exploration that began with the global maritime empires of Portugal and Spain in the... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

It was a small group of current or ex- members of the Conservative Party led by Arthur K. Chesterton a former leading figure in the British Union of Fascists, who served under Oswald Mosley. They were well-known for various stunts at Conservative Party meetings and conferences (acting as a constant irritant to the party). These stunts included hiding underneath the speaker platform overnight to emerge during the conference in order to put across their points. The League found support from a number of Conservative Party members, although they were disliked very much by the leadership. The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... Arthur Keneth Chesterton (1896 — August 16, 1973) was an ultra right_wing politician and journalist, instrumental in founding a number of right_wing organisations in Britain, primarily in opposition to the break_up of the British Empire, and later adopting a broader anti-immigration stance. ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...

As time progressed the group became primarily concerned with opposing non-White immigration into Britain and were instrumental in the founding (with other right-wing groups) of the National Front in February, 1967. In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is a far right-wing political party that had its heyday during the 1970s and 80s. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

According to historian Roger Eatwell:

"Most of its 2000-3000 active members were Colonel Blimpish rather than fascist: in fact many of its members saw it as a Conservative ginger group . . . an attempt to keep the Conservatives true to the Imperial way." The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrooks London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically English. ...

Members were mostly proud of the traditions and achievements of the United Kingdom, and did not openly support Nazism or Fascism. There was a widespread anti-Semitism in the group however, and Chesterton himself frequently stated the Jews were to blame for the decline of the Empire. 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). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...