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The British Democratic Party (British Democrats) is a far-right political party. It was launched in 2013 in a village hall in Leicestershire by a ten-member steering committee which included Andrew Brons, a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Brons had been a member of the British National Party (BNP) and a leading member of the National Front (NF). The steering committee included a number of others with a history of membership in fascist and neo-Nazi groups,〔Ray Mount, ("British Democratic Party launches and promises it will belong to its members" ), ''Searchlight'', 1 March 2013〕 who believed that the BNP had been corrupted and watered-down.〔 ==History== Brons resigned from the BNP in October 2012, after a failed campaign to unseat Nick Griffin as leader of the party in 2011. A number of other disillusioned BNP members have joined him, including Kevin Scott, founder and director of Civil Liberty, who is acting as the interim chairman of the BDP, and who used to be a party organiser for the British National Party in the North East. Other prominent members of the party include: * Adrian Davies, a longstanding critic of Griffin and a former Conservative member and former Freedom Party chairman, who wrote the party's constitution and registered the party name, * John Bean, the former editor of the British National Party magazine ''Identity'', * James Lewthwaite, a former Bradford councillor, who along with others established the Democratic Nationalists in 2010, and who stood for the Democratic Nationalists,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_elections/general_election_2010/constituencies/145.bradford_south/candidates/2540._james_lewthwaite/ )〕 * Julian Leppert, who had been a councillor in London Borough of Redbridge and stood for London Mayor for the British National Party, and * Andrew Moffat, a former UK Independence Party (UKIP) parliamentary candidate, who worked with Andrew Brons in the European Parliament〔 Colin Liddell, on the website Alternative Right, commented on the party launch, saying that "people feel betrayed and resentful about the direction the country has been taken in". He adds further that "quite simply an enormous political vacuum is developing.... The real hope for Britain lies in the foundation of the British Democratic Party, a new party formed by nationalists who have finally moved out of the shadow caused by the collapse into irrelevance of the BNP". Mark Cotterill's far-right publication ''Heritage and Destiny'' affirmed the creation of the party, saying that it "welcomes the creation of the BDP and looks forward to reporting on further positive developments very soon", and that as "the death of the BNP is confirmed ...(is time )... to make a new start with Andrew Brons MEP and the British Democratic Party." Nick Lowles, of Hope not Hate, believes the party will be a serious threat to the BNP. "The BDP brings together all of the hardcore Holocaust deniers and racists that have walked away from the BNP over the last two to three years, plus those previously, who could not stomach the party’s image changes.... They and the BNP already have a mutual hatred of each other and neither party will stop until they’ve killed the other one off. The gloves will be off and it will be toxic".〔 Mathew Collins, also of Hope not Hate, predicted that the party would espouse policies of scientific racism and Holocaust denial, ideas from which the BNP, under Griffin, distanced themselves.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Democratic Party (2013)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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