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John Hutchyns Tyndall (born July 14 1934), nationalist British politician.Tyndall was first politically active in the League of Empire Loyalists (a right-wing pressure group) headed by A.K. Chesterton. In 1957, feeling that the League was not sufficiently active, he and John Bean left to form the National Labour Party. The Labour Party prevented the use of this name, and in 1960 it merged with the White Defence League of Colin Jordan to form the British National Party (BNP).
Tyndall became deputy national organiser of this party and deputy commander of a private army set up by Colin Jordan called Spearhead, based on the SA of Nazi Germany. The police prosecuted Jordan, Tyndall and two others for paramilitary organising. Tyndall says that he deeply regrets his involvement with this organisation, although opponents claim it as proof of extreme views. To this day Spearhead lives on as Tyndall's magazine through which his political thoughts and comments are communicated.
Tyndall left the British National Party with Colin Jordan in 1962 when he set up the National Socialist Movement, but fell out with him over a rivalry for the affections of French heiress Francoise Dior. He formed the Greater Britain Movement in 1964, taking most of the members of the National Socialist Movement.
Tyndall spent much of the 1960s developing his ideological programme. He published "The Authoritarian State" in 1962, in which he claimed that liberal democracy was a Jewish tool of world domination that needed to be replaced by authoritarianism. Later Tyndall continued to develop his ideological programme and produced in 1966 his "Six Principles of Nationalism" which appeared to break with the neo-Nazi NSM and instead looked to electoral paths to government, which would be characterized by leadership, corporatism and racial purity and would be regularly ratified by referenda, bringing to mind the earlier calls of Oswald Mosley. Tyndall’s new work impressed A. K. Chesterton, who at the same time was helping to reorganise the demoralised right.
When the National Front was formed in 1967 Tyndall pressed for the inclusion of the Greater Britain Movement. Eventually a compromise was reached to allow individual members to join the NF, and Tyndall disbanded the Greater Britain Movement when they all had. Tyndall swiftly rose to the rank of Chairman when A.K. Chesterton resigned, in which his principal responsibility was theory and political thinking.
Under Tyndall's guidance the Front grew in membership and gained many votes. For the 1979 general election, the Front put up 303 candidates but the results were disappointing: it lost its deposit everywhere. Internal recriminations saw Tyndall removed from all his positions and he opted to depart, setting up first the New National Front, then changing its name to the British National Party in 1982.
During his tenure as leader of the BNP, Tyndall did little to dispel the perception among some that the BNP was a neo-Nazi organisation, and strongly resisted any attempts to soften the party's policies or image. Tyndall was convicted of incitement to racial hatred in 1986 and has been jailed three times. During his time in prison he completed the part-autobiographical part-political book "The Eleventh hour" (ISBN 0951368621 ), which he has since revised several times.
In 1999 Tyndall lost the leadership of the BNP to Nick Griffin, and was subsequently expelled from the party over critical comments printed in Spearhead. However in the December 2003 issue of the Spearhead, Tyndall announced that he has been readmitted to the party following an out-of-court settlement with Griffin.
In 2004, Tyndall joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream our cause" by reducing violence and internecine warfare, and was written by David Duke. When he signed, Tyndall made it clear that he was not acting on behalf of the BNP.
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