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BNP reinstates Tyndall as infighting escalates

01 November 2003

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As the far-right British National Party gears up for local and European elections next June their founder and former leader, John Tyndall, has been reinstated as a member of the organisation. Tyndall was expelled in August (see Statewatch vol. 13 no 5) after a disciplinary hearing accused him of "subversion", "disruption" and slandering members of the party leadership. Tyndall says the expulsion was recinded after discussions between legal representatives representing both parties, only for new charges to be brought against him. These have also been dismissed. According to Tyndall, who has ridiculed the attempts to expel him in his journal Spearhead, the current BNP leader, Nick Griffin and another key activist Tony Lecomber intend to "hound" him out of the party "one way or another". Lecomber has a criminal conviction for bombing the premises of a left opposition party in south London and is known among anti-fascists as "the mad bomber".

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