More history -

A Century of British Fascism

from the 1958-68 period

'the NF's voting base was disenchanted Labour voters in the major conurbations.'

and 1969-79

'The party's earliest activists had placed themselves and the NF to the right of the Conservative Party and had assumed that the NF would appeal predominantly to disgruntled ex-Conservatives, but the 1960s were to prove that a more significant source of support would be racist voters.
Many but by no means all were working class in origin, and many - but again by no means all - were usually Labour voters; they were often in inner-city working-class areas or on peripheral council estates, especially in provincial cities such as Leicester and Wolverhampton.
In fact, the NF was one of the first extreme-right parties in Europe to use crude expulsionist anti-black and anti-Asian racism as the prime basis of its electoral appeal.'


.....A failure to learn the lessons of the past by New Labour but not one lost on Griffin!