The England First Party

With the collapse of other splinter groups which tried to cause trouble for the British National Party – some of them overtly Searchlight instigated, others just run by cranks -- Searchlight was, for a while, at its wit’s end for a more effective way of trying to halt the inexorable rise of the British National Party as a credible, democratic alternative to the Tory and Labour parties.

After thrashing around in the muddy waters of the far right, mostly through the work of one of its longest standing (but, ironically, most exposed) agents, Peter Rushton, the masters at Searchlight have finally found their team of “willing fools” in the form of the peculiar "England First Party” or EFP.

Today, the EFP tries desperately to pass itself off to newcomers as a reasonable, non-racist, pro-English party, in an attempt to become a wannabe-Scottish National Party type operation.

To do this, the EFP has set itself the goal of opposing the British National Party – one of Gable’s chief purposes in life, and where his and the EFP strategy tie in very nicely together.

The origins and personalities behind the EFP make, therefore, interesting reading.