John Tyndall, the founder of the BNP spent time in prison in the 1960s for inciting racial hatred. Nick Griffin has worked to change the racist image of the party and broaden its appeal. In 2006 he was cleared of race hate charges and the party alleges that it doesn’t make any claim of white supremacy, merely to ‘keep Britain British’.
On its website, the party lists dozens of organisations, such as Operation Black Vote and the National Black Police Association, which should also be classified as racist if the BNP is to be so classified because it has an all-white membership. However, Nick Griffin has promoted anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the past and has shared a platform in the USA with the politician and former Ku Klux Klan member, David Duke.
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