Catalogue Number
NMLH.2003.15.5
Object Name
Poster
Title
Stop Immigration. Start Repatriation. National Front
Creator(s)
Description
Large white poster with blue text saying "STOP immigration, START repatriation." There is a red, white and blue Union Jack logo; next to this there is a red box with white text inside saying "National Front." The bottom of the text has publishing information in blue text saying "91 Connaught Road, Teddington, Middlesex. Printed & Published by National Front, 91 Connaught Road, Teddington, Middlesex."
The National Front is a far-right, fascist, white supremacist, ethno-nationalist political party. Ideologically positioned on the extreme right or far-right of British politics, the NF has been characterised as fascist or neo-fascist by political scientists. Different factions have dominated the party at different times, each with its own ideological bent, including neo-Nazis, Strasserites and racial populists. Repatriation is the "return of someone to their country." The party espouses the ethnic nationalist view that only white people should be citizens of the United Kingdom. The NF calls for an end to non-white migration into the UK and for settled non-white Britons to be stripped of their citizenship and deported. A white supremacist party, it promotes biological racism and the white genocide conspiracy theory, calling for global racial separatism and condemning interracial relationships and miscegenation. It espouses anti-semitic conspiracy theories, endorsing Holocaust denial and claiming that Jews dominate the world through both communism and finance capitalism. It promotes economic protectionism, hard Euroscepticism and a transformation away from liberal democracy, while its social policies oppose feminism, LGBT rights and societal permissiveness.
After the BNP, the NF has been the most successful far-right group in British politics since the Second World War. During its history, it has established sub-groups such as a trade unionist association, a youth group and the Rock Against Communism musical organisation. Only whites are permitted membership of the party, and in its heyday most of its support came from white British working-class and lower middle-class communities in northern England and east London. The NF has generated vocal opposition from left-wing and anti-fascist groups throughout its history, and NF members are prohibited from various professions.
