Jonathan Bowden - Revolutionary Conservative Caucus

Revolutionary Conservative Caucus

Bowden and Millson co-founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in November 1992, with, he said, the aim of introducing "abstract thought into the nether reaches of the Conservative and Unionist party". In the group's first quarterly journal, The Revolutionary Conservative Review, it stated that "The Caucus has been established by Right-wing activists within the Conservative Party in order to disseminate information, ideology, and intellectual opinion within and beyond the party." However, the journal's name was almost immediately changed to The Revolutionary Conservative, and in issue number 1, they stated that the Caucus "is dedicated to national sovereignty, European culture, masculinity, ruthless elitism, and racial purity." They were attacked by Sir Norman Fowler in the Sunday Express who said, "These people are not remotely typical of mainstream Conservatives", and by James Glyn Ford, MEP, speaking at the 1993 Labour Party Conference when he said, "The Tories have a Far-Right tendency....I have passed details of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus to Special Branch...". However the Conservative MP Rupert Allason was quoted in Searchlight magazine as saying "If they are against Maastricht, they can't be bad." Issue no.3 of their journal was devoted entirely to the continuing power struggle within the Monday Club following the departure of Gregory Lauder-Frost at the end of May 1992. By the end of 1994, Millson and Bowden had parted company and issue no.4 was the last production of the Caucus.