Politics
Davies was personal secretary to the controversial holocaust denier David Irving during the early 80s. In 1983 Davies was sharing a flat with Italian neo-Nazi Roberto Fiore, and Michael Walker editor of Scorpion magazine. Davies offered to resign as Irving's personal secretary once this association entered the British press.
Davies was previously an executive council member of the Conservative Monday Club, a former executive committee member of Tory Action and secretary of the London Swinton Circle. In August 1983 he was prominent amongst those attending an infamous Swinton Circle meeting with Ivor Benson as speaker which was held in Conservative Party headquarters.
Later he was also a co-founder of the Bloomsbury Forum with Jonathan Bowden. He addressed a fringe meeting of the Conservative Democratic Alliance at the Conservative Party Conference in October 2002.
Adrian Davies was chairman of the now-defunct Freedom Party (UK) (which is not connected to the British Freedom Party). He was the Freedom Party's sole candidate in the 2005 general election, contesting South Staffordshire which, owing to the death of a candidate, was postponed from May 5 to June 23. His manifesto embraced, inter alia, opposition to immigration (using the slogan "Enoch Powell was right!"), the European Union and the euro and favoured a protectionist economic stance. Davies polled 473 votes, 1.7% of all those cast.
On 23 May 2011 Davies and his associate Raymond Heath (in the past a member of the short-lived “populist” National Party of the United Kingdom then of the Vauxhall Conservative Association) registered another new political party with the Electoral Commission numbered PP 1765 and called the British Democratic Party. The new party seems to be dormant, as confirmed by Davies himself on the British Democracy Forum where he regularly posts under the nom de plume "Advocatus Diaboli".: "I shan't be returning to the fray as chairman of any post-Gri££in nationalist party, been there, done that! Others will have to take up that mantle, though I am happy to offer advice and financial support if indeed a worthwhile new party, be that the BDP or another, eventually takes off."
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