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Martin Guy Alan Webster (born May 1943) is a former leading figure on the far-right in British politics.

Contents 1 Early political activism 2 With Tyndall in the NF 3 Later NF activity and expulsion 4 BNP and current activity 5 Elections contested 6 Notes and references 7 See also

An early member of the National Labour Party and the League of Empire Loyalists, Webster was John Tyndall's closest ally and followed him in joining the British National Party, the National Socialist Movement and the Greater Britain Movement. Webster also spent time in prison for knocking former Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta to the ground outside the London Hilton hotel, for helping to organise Spearhead, and was convicted under the 1936 Public Order Act. He attracted further notoriety in 1972 when he was recorded as saying: "We are busy setting up a well-oiled Nazi machine in this country." .^[1] Later he would claim, in equal bad taste, "I revere the days of the British Empire when our forebears waded up to their knees in wogs' blood".

Webster continued to be an able lieutenant to Tyndall and followed him into the National Front. Webster proved an early success in the NF, being appointed National Activities Organiser in 1969.^[2] and, in this postion, jointly held the leadership of the party with Tyndall until 1974. Webster clashed with Tyndall's replacement John Kingsley Read and the clash set in motion Read's downfall, allowing Tyndall to return to the leadership. However Webster would go on to break with Tyndall and became the leading figure in the NF during Andrew Brons' leadership.

Rumours of Webster's homosexuality led to him becoming vilified in far-right circles and he also fell foul of the Political Soldier wing of the NF. In 1983 they ensured that he lost his position as National Activities Organiser, then deprived him of his place on the National Directorate, before expelling him from the party altogether. Many activists also reproached Webster for being too friendly with the police. He briefly attempted to lead his own group, One Nation, although this proved unsuccessful despite the financial support he received from Françoise Dior and the organisational involvement of Denis Pirie.

No longer involved in active politics (although he was associated with Lady Jane Birdwood for a while leading up to her death) Webster re-emerged in 1999 to claim that he had been involved in a gay relationship with Nick Griffin during the 1970s, apparently an intervention in Griffin's attempts to wrest leadership of the British National Party from Tyndall. He formed a closer, personal friendship with MI5 agent, Peter Marriner, who was later exposed on a TV documentary. Both Webster and Marriner benefited from the will of Lady Birdwood. Webster's efforts against Griffin proved unsuccessful and he has yet to return to the political scene, although he claims to write as a freelance. He is an active cyclist and is a member of recreational cycling groups.

Date of election	Constituency	Party	Votes	%
May 24, 1973	West Bromwich	NF	4789	16.0
February 1974	West Bromwcih East	NF	2907	7.0
1979	Bethnal Green and Bow	NF	1740	6.1
October 28, 1982	Peckham	NF	874	3.9

1. ^ "The Listener", BBC, Dec 1972.
2. ^ N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 16

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Pre-1945 people:	John Amery | A. F. X. Baron | Henry Hamilton Beamish | John Beckett | Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford | Barry Domvile | William Evans-Gordon | Robert Forgan | Neil Francis Hawkins | J. F. C. Fuller | William Joyce | Arnold Leese | Rotha Lintorn-Orman | Diana Mitford | Unity Mitford | Lady Cynthia Mosley | Oswald Mosley | Alexander Raven Thomson | Henry Williamson
Post-1945 people	Ian Anderson | John Bean | Jane Birdwood | Andrew Brons | A. K. Chesterton | David Copeland | Mark Cotterill | Sharon Ebanks | Richard Edmonds | Andrew Fountaine | Nick Griffin | Jeffrey Hamm | Anthony Hancock | Patrick Harrington | Derek Holland | Colin Jordan | John Kingsley Read | Michael McLaughlin | Eddy Morrison | David Myatt | John O'Brien | Denis Pirie | Kevin Quinn | Anthony Reed Herbert | Robert Relf | Charlie Sargent | Simon Sheppard | Troy Southgate | Keith Thompson | John Tyndall | Richard Verrall | Martin Webster | Martin Wingfield | John Graeme Wood
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