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The British National Party (BNP) is a United Kingdom political party, and is the largest political party of the far-right in the United Kingdom.

1 History and overview

The modern BNP was founded in 1982 by John Tyndall, a former chairman of the National Front. The current National Chairman, Nick Griffin, joined the BNP in 1995, and replaced Tyndall after a leadership election to become leader in 1999. He was also a previous chairman of the National Front and spent time as an activist whilst reading law at Downing College, University of Cambridge.

Tyndall was expelled from the BNP in 2003. The reasons for this mainly related to articles published in his magazine, Spearhead, which were highly critical of the BNP leadership. It was also believed that his often 'extremist' views did not tally with contemporary party policies. However, Tyndall was readmitted to the party in December 2003, after an out of court settlement with Nick Griffin.

In 1998, before he was chairman of the BNP, Griffin was convicted of violating section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986 , relating to incitement to racial hatred. He received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and was fined £2,300.

In recent years the BNP has reflected many aspects of a concept known as EuronationalismEuronationalism is the process of bringing parties and issues that have been judged as far right to a more mainstream audience. A mirror of the Eurocommunism of the 1970s, this is a strategy used by far right parties to start winning elections by underpla. This is a pattern of emphasis and presentation of policies that has been adopted by a number of far-right parties in EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se. It is often cited as a factor in their increased electoral successes of the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn.

2 Policies

According to the BNP's website [1] the party's policies include:

• The BNP claims that "On current demographic trends, we, the native British people will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years". To remedy this the party calls for an immediate halt to all further immigration. And the introduction of a system of "voluntary resettlement" whereby immigrants already here will be given financial incentives to return to their "lands of ethnic origin".

• The party also pledges to abolish positive discrimination, which the party claims "have made white Britons second-class citizens".

• The party seeks to withdraw from the European UnionFor other uses, see EU (disambiguation). The European Union or EU is a supranational organisation of 25 European states. It was established with that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992 but many aspects o, and pursue protectionistProtectionism is the economic policy of promoting favored domestic industries through the use of high tariffs and other regulations to discourage imports. Historical variants of this policy have included mercantilism, a trade policy aimed at maximizing cu economic measures, to "aim towards greater national self-sufficiency".

• The BNP pledges to restore corporal punishmentCorporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain to someone as correction or punishment. When used for the punishment of criminals or slaves, it is usually applied using an instrument such as a cane or a whip such as the cat-o-nine-tails' once use for "petty criminals and vandals" and restore capital punishmentCapital punishment also referred to as the death penalty is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime''. Some jurisdictions that practice capital punishment restri for "paedophiles, terrorists and murderers".

Other policies include the promotion of organic farming, and ending foreign aid.

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