Graham Williamson

Graham Keith Williamson is a long-time political activist in the United Kingdom, having been active at the top levels of various far right groups including the National Front, the Third Way and Solidarity. Most recently, he is a leading member of the National Liberal Party which contested the 2014 European Parliament election with eight candidates in the London constituency election being held in May 2014.

According to Williamson his first political involvement occurred in 1975 when, as a schoolboy, he made a speech to supporters of the "No Campaign" against the United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum.

Williamson eventually joined the National Front and rose to the position of deputy chairman. Active in the movement during the 1980s, he was closely associated with the Official National Front (ONF) wing of Nick Griffin, Derek Holland and Patrick Harrington which was opposed by the Flag Group of Andrew Brons and Ian Anderson. Like most of his fellow members of the tendency Williamson had begun as a member of the Young National Front. Williamson's membership of the NF dated back to 1975. Williamson attracted coverage when he and Harrington attended the 1988 Quds Day march to show their support for Islamic extremists, a position that was advocated by the ONF faction.

With Patrick Harrington, he founded the National Liberal Party in 1999. Harrington is the staff manager for the BNP leader Nick Griffin, himself a former leading figure in the National Front, and publicity consultant of British National Party (BNP)-supported "trade union" Solidarity. Williamson was a member of the executive for that organisation. With Harrington he ran a nationalist think tank for more than twenty years called the Third Way, named after the third-positionist strategies influenced by the ideology of Roberto Fiore, an Italian fascist. Third-positionist ideas were a great influence on the "Political Soldier" faction of the National Front, which included Williamson, Harrington and Griffin. Williamson has stated that he abandoned British Nationalism upon joining the Third Way and instead embraced "progressive nationalism". This was the name adopted by the Third Way to describe their guiding principles, as laid out by Williamson and TP Bragg in an independently produced 2005 booklet. As a result of taking up the manifesto the Third Way supported an overarching British culture that could be embraced by immigrants, a system of federalism for the UK with the possibility of a future break-up, an isolationist foreign policy, environmentalism, the wide use of Swiss-style citizens' initiatives and distributism. The Declaration is divided into two, with its environmental, spiritual and philosophical manifesto written by Bragg.

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