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Introduction: National Front

The National Front was founded in 1967 by fusion of several far-right groups, including the original British National Party (founded in 1960). Having become probably the strongest far-fight organization by mid-1970s, it has never had any success in the elections, its most noted activities being marches and demonstrations, which frequently ended in violent clashes with the anti-Fascist, mostly far-left groups. The lack of success led to the decline and internal conflicts, including several splits, the one of 1982 resulting in formation of the current British National Party, which replaced it as the strongest far-right group during the 1990s. While there was a reactivation since late 2000s, the party seems not to have regained its old position so far.

While being consistently racist, the National Front has always denied the accusations of Nazism, describing its openness towards the Nazi ideas as the support for free speech, despite the fact that it has been cooperating with openly neo-Nazi groups in the UK and abroad at the same time. Police and prison services in the UK forbid their employees to be members of the party.
Source: National Front at Wikipedia
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016


Current flags

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

The party emblem is the monogram NF. One of the flags is clearly derived from that of the Third Reich by replacing the swastika with black oblique monogram. The photos can be found at:
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/newnfflag.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/swagm3.jpg
http://www.britishnf.com/Towton3.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/rochaug2.jpg
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

The other flag is similar to that of the Imperial Fascist League: gb%7Dnaz.html#uj Here, too, the swastika is replaced with the black monogram, but in regular (i.e. not oblique) form. The photos can be found at:
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/15scarb2.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/leeds5.jpg
http://www.northeastnf.org/1sp.jpg
http://www.northeastnf.org/pegidabiggs1.jpg
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

The third flag is black, charged with a red monogram in regular form, fimbriated white and surrounded with two golden olive branches, the design of which looks like it was borrowed from the flag of United Nations - somewhat surprising, since the National Front is generally against the British membership in such international organizations; whether this means that they are not as much against the UN as against, for example, the European Union (which is the main "enemy" of British far-right), or that they simply liked the design enough to disregard the original user, is yet to be found out. The photos of this flag can be found at:
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/augflag1.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/15scarb5.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/15scarb6.jpg
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 February 2016

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 17 Januuary 2017

The newest addition to the set of NF flags is derived from the 1938-1945 war ensign of the Third Reich by replacing the swastika with black monogram NF (in regular form), removing the inner black border from the disc and replacing the Iron Cross in the canton with the black odal rune fimbriated white. Its photos can be found here: http://www.britishnationalfront.net/juneflagnf.jpg, https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/far-right-jo-cox-thomas-mair and http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/three-arrested-deadly-weapons-seized-7279305 (also in the photo gallery: http://www.mirror.co.uk/incoming/gallery/anti-immigration-demonstration-at-dover-7275286).
Tomislav Todorovic, 17 January 2017


Former flags

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 14 February 2016

In an episode of the TV series "Pop Music and Politics," which was broadcast on Viasat History channel several times during the year 2006, a very short interval (less than two minutes, as I estimated) was dedicated to the music of far-right rock bands, without any comments or naming of the performers (so as to show that they exist without advertising them), just illustrated with black and white photos of performances, magazines and posters. One of these photos showed a long, hanging flag on the wall, charged with black monogram NF on a white disc, all on gray (presumably red) field. The monogram was in a more condensed form than generally used nowadays, identical or very similar with those displayed on the demonstration posters during the early 1980s, as shown in the photo from Brighton, 1981, available at http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/yesterdays/features/11163330.Politics_of_the_far_right_never_welcome_in_city (image: http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2986241) or the one from London. 1983, available at http://www.leninology.co.uk/2009/06/nazis-have-roots-too.html (image: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JNlxgs6qm2M/SjIYAXKAQsI/AAAAAAAACoU/yi-r6R45ZIY/s1600-h/Griffin+Fascist.jpg).

Banners for indoor use with similar design, in square or nearly square shape and often charged with additional inscriptions, are still used, as can be seen at:
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/kevbryan.jpg
http://www.northeastnf.org/stg2008-meet.jpg
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2013/08/511982.png.

Sometimes, the monogram looks as if only the left-side half of letter N is used, such as at:
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/newcoct17.jpg
http://www.britishnationalfront.net/wyorks3.jpg

Regardless of that, they all have red field, speaking in favor of presumption that the field of the flag described above was red, too.

[National Front] image by Tomislav Todorovic, 14 February 2016

During the 1980s, National Front also used long, hanging flags charged with black monogram NF on a white disc, all on black field. A photo of such flags, which can be found at http://www.subcultz.com/2015/08/racism-within-the-skinhead-subculture (image: http://www.subcultz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Skrewdriver.-National-Front-700x571.jpg), shows the monogram in oblique from, letter N rather condensed form and letter F seemingly less so.

A less oblong vertical flag, charged with the monogram very similar to one of currently used variants, is shown at http://41.media.tumblr.com/37c6074fe43e297836099d322eb391e5/tumblr_nkauvkmoBy1twnu9no2_1280.jpg. Unfortunately, poor quality of the photo does not allow to determine the colors.
Tomislav Todorovic, 14 February 2016