White Nationalist Party

The White Nationalist Party (WNP) was a British political party which considered racial separatism as fundamental to a healthy society.

The party was formed by Eddy Morrison and Kevin Watmough after Morrison reorganised his supporters who had been going by the name of Aryan Unity; the new party was effectively the Yorkshire branch of the British National Front that had become independent, and the party conducted most of its activities in Yorkshire - an area where the far-right had always been very weak until fairly recently.. The party manifesto called for the establishment of a corporatist economy, Isolationism, government control of the trade union movement, increased armament, a ban on homosexuality, and "a moral, spiritual and physical revolution in the hearts and minds of the masses so that all become part of a healthy, clean and energetic folk state."

The WNP was severely weakened in 2004 by the breaking away of the England First Party under Cotterill. The name was initially intended to be used after the Electoral Commission refused to register WNP as an official name but after a dispute between Cotterill on the one side and Eddy Morrison and John G. Wood on the other the group broke away to become a separate, English nationalist, party.

Although they had split from the BNP, the WNP under Morrison and Wood courted John Tyndall, although he refused to join as he did not feel that divisions were helpful. Eventually Eddy Morrison left the party over the issue and became a close associate of Tyndall before his death. A number of supporters left the party with him, weakening the group further.

On 6th June 2005 the White Nationalist Party National Council decided at a meeting in Sheffield to pass out of existence and to turn its membership over to the Nationalist Alliance.

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* [http://society.guardian.co.uk/raceequality/story/0,8150,1124768,00.html Blunkett bans Bradford White Nationalist march] (Matt Weaver, "Guardian", 16 January 2004)