Interesting Report on the Raw Version of the early BNP (British National Party). Skinheads at the Ready!

Old and Bad-style British National Party in 1991 on Panorama



Now, I was going to show some much-awaited old by-election coverage from a far flung corner of the UK, but I found this, and it's a great find, from the long-running investogative series Panorama. Thumbs down though, it is a thuggish party and still is. Nowadays you have Nick Griffin appearing on "Question Time" trying to modernise the party, in a suit, however it still the same type of party it was, just that there is more of this (above in video)under the radar. The BNP back in the early 90's did indeed take a more alienating and hardcore stance in the public sphere, under the leadership of John Tyndall, who appears in this clip, harvesting his hatred to a crowd.

The clip first ventures into a pub full of skinheads, wearing either black jackets or denim, but the first person they talk too, is a flouncy-haired farmer-looking guy. One guy is shown proudly showing badges conveying the Nazi flag and BNP logo. The haircut that female BNP supporter; I've tried searching to find the name for it, as I remember it being an early-80's style too. The best I can find is, it's called a buzz, but a buzz can mean short, shave hair only. Alright, that's enough of that.

The BNP were a far-right, fascist party formed in 1982 by John Tyndall. This was a section of members of "The National Front" who split from the party. Their were hopes of them merging together again, but it never happened. For much of the 80's, the National Front were the better performing party, however the BNP over-took the lead in this movement, in the 90's, and very increasingly, in the 2000's. The documentary here, probably ties in the the surge in popularity for the party in the early 90's, especially in London and the South East. The BNP did not allow homosexual, black, Asian or lesbian people to become members, while the National Front was more relaxed to homosexuals. This clip is quite an important piece of history, to remind us of the outright hatred that is portrayed openly, compared to recent times.