Nationalist Alliance
Nationalist Alliance | |
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Leader | Catherine Parker-Brown |
Founded | 2005 |
Dissolved | 2008 |
Headquarters | England, United Kingdom |
Ideology | Far-right |
The Nationalist Alliance was a
History and activities
Founded in 2004 by majority-BNP members,[2]: 104 the NA sought to build a closer alliance with other groups on the far right that were not affiliated with and worked outside of the British National Party. One such alliance was a potential merge with the Freedom Party, though this did not come to pass, as Adrian Davies, chairman of the party, felt reluctant to join with some of the more extremist elements of the NA.[3]
Seeking to further ties with other far-right activists, the party held a meeting attended by members of the
Split
The meeting held at Rawdon brought media attention upon both the NA and the far-right activists affiliated with the event, and leading to its eventual split. A photograph of some of the members inside the meeting appeared in an edition of Searchlight magazine, leading to accusations made amongst the activists as to where and from whom the image had come from.
Along with the failure of the Freedom Party initiative[
The split led to recriminations across the far-right movement, Morrison himself being verbally attacked by Martin Webster - former far-right leader and political activist - on Webster's online bulletin, Webster having accused Morrison of simply using the NA as a way to collect money from its members, a charge Morrison denied.[7]
Existing party activities and membership drift
Despite the split, the Nationalist Alliance continued to operate as a political entity, offering a political platform for
In November 2006, a prominent member of the Nationalist Alliance, Mick "Belsen" Sanderson, was stabbed to death in Nottingham following a fight with fellow NA member John Pakulski.[11] Pakulski was sentenced to six years of imprisonment for manslaughter for the murder, whilst fellow member Catherine Parker-Brown received a community order for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after she was found to have attempted to clean the scene of the crime.[12][13] Parker-Brown had been a former organiser for the BNP in the East Midlands and was formerly the nominal leader of the NA, though their membership had later become largely interchangeable with the increasingly more prominent EFP.[14]
The Wolf's Hook White Brotherhood - which had been considered a sister organisation to the NA - has since ceased to exist, with most of its membership transferring to the Racial Volunteer Force.[12] Beyond a former internet presence and its occasional publication Axiom (succeeding its two previous publications, Vanguard and Imperium, which have since been published by the BNP), the party is by and large defunct.[12]
Previous use of the name
The name had been used 'in house' for an initiative driven by Andrew Brons to achieve a reconciliation and joint electoral action between the Flag Group and the BNP in 1986, a move which ultimately came to nothing.[2]: 36–38 The modern incarnation of the Nationalist Alliance has no connection to this proposal.
References
- ^ "Renamed or Deregistered Parties" (PDF). electoralcomission.org.uk. The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ a b Copsey, N. (2004). Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- ^ Searchlight, No. 363, September 2005, p. 25
- ^ a b Lazenby, Peter. "Far-right event sparks violence". yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk. The Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Searchlight, No. 364, October 2005, p. 9
- ^ Searchlight, No. 368, February 2006, p. 13
- ^ Searchlight, No. 366, December 2005, p. 26
- ^ "THE NATIONALIST ALLIANCE". allnationalist.com. The Nationalist Alliance. Archived from the original on 9 April 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Searchlight, No. 379, January 2007, p. 17
- ^ Gable, Gerry. "Lone wolves: myth or reality?" (PDF). Searchlight. p. 154. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Searchlight, No. 379, January 2007, p. 23
- ^ a b c Searchlight, No. 391, January 2008, p. 23
- ^ Mullins, Helen (10 September 2007). "Worksop man with racist links gets six years for manslaughter". Worksop Guardian. The Worksop Guardian.
- ^ Searchlight, No. 388, October 2007, p. 16