The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, British fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and is led by Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. The party was founded in 1982, and reached its greatest level of success in the 2000s, when it had over fifty seats in local government, one seat on the London Assembly, and two Members of the European Parliament.
A National Front march from the 1970s, the movement from which the BNP emerged by 1982
Nick Griffin at a BNP press conference in Manchester in 2009
Anti-fascist protestors demonstrating against Griffin's appearance on Question Time in 2009
On taking over the party, Nick Griffin dropped its official espousal of the biological superiority of a Nordic race, instead emphasising the need for racial separatism to preserve global "ethno-pluralism".
The English Defence League (EDL) is a far-right, Islamophobic organisation in England. A social movement and pressure group that employs street demonstrations as its main tactic, the EDL presents itself as a single-issue movement opposed to Islamism and Islamic extremism, although its rhetoric and actions target Islam and Muslims more widely. Founded in 2009, its heyday lasted until 2011, after which it entered a decline.
The EDL's first protest took place outside of the East London Mosque in Whitechapel in June 2009
Tommy Robinson (centre-right, in the light coloured jacket) with other EDL members on a visit to Amsterdam
The flag of St George displayed at an EDL demonstration in Newcastle in 2010
The North East Infidels at an EDL rally; this was one of the splinter groups which emerged from the EDL as it fragmented