Eddy Morrison

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Eddy Morrison is a neo-Nazi political figure in Britain, who has been involved in a number of movements throughout his career.

Morrison was involved with both the British Movement (BM) and the National Front (NF) during the 1970s (he published two newsletters, both called British News, during the period; the first supported the BM and the second, for a time, the NF)[1], as well as briefly organising a group called the British National Party in his Leeds base [2]. Soon, however, he became associated with John Tyndall and followed him into the New National Front in 1979 and from there into the newly formed British National Party in 1982.

After leaving the BNP Morrison spent a short time in the notoriously violent National Democratic Freedom Movement (a minor group which ended when its founder, David Myatt, was jailed) before setting up his own group, the National Action Party. The NAP was a minuscule group and Tony Malski (now disappeared from the political scene) claimed that Morrison was out of his depth and had sought to merge the NAP into his own National Socialist Action Party [3]. After the NAP ran out of steam, Morrison was readmitted to the BNP in 1988 and became regional organizer for Yorkshire, revitalising the party right across the North of England, especially when he organised the now notorious Dewsbury open air mass rally which is credited by many observers with putting the BNP on the map.[4]

Morrison returned in the late 1990s and rejoined the NF, rebuilding the local party group in Yorkshire after years of decline. However the NF leadership soon became distrustful of the power base Morrison was building up until in 2002 he led the Yorkshire NF away, initially under the name of Aryan Unity. This group was soon renamed the White Nationalist Party and Morrison became one of its leading members until yet another split occurred and he again broke away with his followers. This time Morrison formed the Spearhead Support Group (soon shortened to Spearhead Group) and again linked up with Tyndall to support his attempts to regain leadership of the BNP from Nick Griffin. When progress was not made, Morrison suggested to Tyndall that he give up on the BNP altogether and form his own party, but Tyndall was not ready. Morrison however decided that this was the best course of action and, breaking with Tyndall, set up the Nationalist Alliance in 2005 in the hope that Tyndall would lead it eventually [5]. After enduring a torrid few months as leader of the NA, Morrison, along with John G. Wood, left the NA and reconstituted their followers as the British Peoples Party, a group of which Morrison is currently National Advisor with Kevin Watmough as National Leader. Under the BPP banner Morrison ran in the 2006 local elections in the Bramley and Stanningley ward of Leeds, securing 135 votes (2.7%) to finish last in a field of six candidates.

Morrison was approached by Sharon Ebanks to stand as a candidate for the New Nationalist Party in the 2007 local elections although he was said to be unwilling due to doubts over her ethnicity [6].

As well as his ever changing role in the politics of the far right, Morrison is also a poet, with much of his work dealing with nationalist themes and some of a more general nature.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Both publications are held at the British Library
  2. ^ S. Taylor, The National Front in English Politics, London: Macmillan, 1982, p. 100
  3. ^ R. Hill & A. Bell, The Other Face of Terror- Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, London: Collins, 1988
  4. ^ N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 44
  5. ^ S. King, 'Return of the Yorkshire Crazy Gang', Searchlight, September 2005, p. 25
  6. ^ 'Sharon Ebanks scraping the nazi barrel for NNP candidates ' from Lancaster UAF

[edit] Bibliography

  • N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
  • R. Hill & A. Bell, The Other Face of Terror- Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, London: Collins, 1988
  • N. Ryan, Homeland, Edinburgh: Mainstream Press, 2003
  • Searchlight magazine: September 2005 & December 2005

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