John Graeme Wood
John Graeme Wood has been on the
nationalist scene in
Britain since the late
1950s.
Wood was a member of Sir
Oswald Mosley's
Union Movement and became a Branch Leader. As well as being a member of UM he also recognised as a personal friend and confidant of Mosley and remained in the UM until
1964 when he joined the
British National Party. Remaining with the BNP, Wood became a founder member of the
British National Front when it was formed in
1967.
Wood left the British
far right not long after this as work commitments took him to the
Federal Republic of Germany. Whilst there, he established links with the
National Democratic Party.
After returning to Britain, Wood linked up with
Eddy Morrison in
Leeds and followed him into the New National Front. In April
1982 at the
Charing Cross Hotel in
London, Wood was present at the launch of the (third)
British National Party.
John Tyndall and a few others, including Charles Parker, Tyndall's father-in-Law, wanted the new party to be called the Nationalist Party but Wood, under pressure from a great majority of northern nationalists in Leeds and
Manchester, persuaded Tyndall to adopt the name of the BNP.
Wood remained with the BNP until
1990 when he resigned from the party due to personality clashes with some moderate senior officers. He continued to appear as a guest speaker at party events, fulfilling a similar function for the NF and other groups, without formally participating in any group.
When the
White Nationalist Party was formed in 2002, Wood was offered the position of propaganda and Training Officer which he accepted. Later, in
2003, he led the party as National Organiser. He was still in that position when, on
June 6th 2005, he dissolved the WNP and merged the whole membership into the
Nationalist Alliance. He retained the position of National Organiser in the new merger and remained there until September 2005 when, due to irreparable differences with fellow members of the National Executive Council, he resigned along with other senior officers, Eddy Morrison, Kevin Watmough and Sid Williamson. Immediately following his resignation from the NA, the leading figures who had resigned with him created a new party, the
British Peoples Party. Wood became Chairman of the BPP with Morrison as National Organiser.
After internal disagreements, Wood decided to distance himself from fringe politics as he thought it was a waste of time and effort.He is now enjoying a semi-retirement although he still writes for various magazines and accepts the odd speaking engagement.