Founding and History
The party was formed by Eddy Morrison, and Kevin Watmough "a key figure in Combat 18" and webmaster of Redwatch; the new party was effectively the Yorkshire branch of the British National Front, and the party conducted most of its activities in Yorkshire - an area where the far-right had always been very weak until fairly recently. The national youth leader of the White Nationalist Party was a teen called Ronnie Cooper from the South Yorkshire area who was exposed for his fascist beliefs by the Sunday People newspaper in 2003. Cooper is now understood to be a serving member of the Royal Navy.
The WNP was severely weakened in 2004 by the breaking away of the England First Party (EFP) under Mark Cotterill. The name was initially intended to be used by the WNP after the Electoral Commission refused to register WNP as an official name; but after a dispute between Cotterill on the one side and Eddy Morrison and John G. Wood (the WNP's national organiser) on the other the EFP group broke away to become a separate, English nationalist, party.
The WNP under Morrison and John G. Wood courted John Tyndall, although he refused to join as he did not feel that divisions were helpful. Eventually Eddy Morrison left the party and with John G. Wood and Kevin Watmough would in 2005 form the similar British People's Party.
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