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The Flag Group rejected the mysticism of the Political Soldiers and argued that the National Front should continue its earlier policies of fighting elections and playing on Populist and Racist sentiments. The Flag Group was particularly opposed to the Political Soldiers' technique of establishing contacts with Black Power groups. Essentially the Flag Group, with Martin Wingfield and Ian Anderson as their leaders, formed an internal opposition to the Political Soldiers within the NF during the 1980s . They briefly split from the NF in 1986 having occasionally run candidates in elections against the wishes of the radical leadership before this. At this time Andrew Brons attempted to engineer a reconciliation between the Flag Group and the British National Party with a view to launching a 'Nationalist Alliance'. The move came to nothing however as Wingfield, who had a long-standing grudge with John Tyndall denounced the plan in ''The Flag'', the party newspaper. N. Copsey, ''Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy'', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 36-38 As the 1980s drew to a close the Flag Group managed to regain control of the NF as the radicals drifted away to the . Given that the Flag Group was unofficial for the majority of its existence it was also known by a number of other names, including the Flag NF and the '''NF Support Group'''. REFERENCES |
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