Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economically, the Front advocates as did the Nazis, a program for national self-sufficiency. They propose to ban all imported goods, and to grow 75 per cent of Britain's foodstuffs in Britain. Like their Nazi predecessors, they also advocate a state-controlled, monopoly capitalist economy...
TYNDALL'S DANGEROUS but decisive rhetoric might even be humorous were it not for his party's rapidly rising popularity. The Front has won up to 12.5 per cent of the vote in Britain's recent local and by-elections. In Birmingham, Stechford, the Front polled 8.2 per cent, finishing ahead of the Liberals' 8.0 per cent. In London's May municipal elections, the Front attracted over 117,000 supporters, or 5.3 per cent of the electorate...
...surge at the polls is twofold. Most immediately, the high profile it has assumed through its extreme and violent tactics has focused attention on itself. The bloody marches it has organized through non-white districts and its extreme racist propaganda have kept the Front on the front pages of Britain's daily newspapers...
More fundamentally, however, Britain's high unemployment rate and inflationary economy is creating a growing reservoir of the dangerously disillusioned and the increasingly desperate. The National Front is thriving specifically on the frustrations, the angers and the hardships that are the human consequences of Britain's economic decline...
...Front's support grows, Britain's established politicians, labor leaders and churchmen are growing increasingly alarmed. They have begun to organize counter-demonstrations and counter-propaganda efforts linking the National Front with Nazism. As they do so, racial violence intensifies, and the British economy continues to stagger...