Greater Britain Movement
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The Greater Britain Movement was a political group formed by John Tyndall in 1964 after he split from Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement. The split was caused by the marriage of Jordan to Françoise Dior who was originally Tyndall's fiancée. She married Jordan while Tyndall was in prison to avoid being expelled from the United Kingdom as an undesirable alien. Whilst leader of the GBM, Tyndall produced his Six Principles of Nationalism in which he broke from the national socialism of Jordan, and called for a parliamentary strategy towards a government that would be corporatist, racialist, and based on the principle of leadership. This state would be ratified by regular referenda, although liberal democracy would be brought to an end.
A.K. Chesterton was impressed by the organisational skills demonstrated by Tyndall in the GBM, although he was also suspicious of his Nazi past, and so did not invite the GBM to join the National Front in 1967. However, Chesterton soon changed his mind, and, in October of that year, Tyndall symbolically left the GBM and advised the entire membership to do the same and join the National Front. The vast majority did so, and, as a result, the GBM ceased to exist.
[edit] References
- S. Taylor, The National Front in English Politics, London: Macmillan, 1982
- J. Tyndall, The Eleventh Hour, Welling: Albion Press, 1998
- M. Walker, The National Front, Glasgow: Fontana Collins, 1977
