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Author: Searchlight | Date: January 1985
NATIONAL Front chairman Andrew Brons has quit his post, terrified at the increasingly violent and illegal activities of the Strasserite leadership who have been in the saddle for the last twelve months.
His decision, announced at the end of November and put down to marital pressure, came only a week after the Front's Annual General Meeting where open threats of violence against Front opponents were made from the platform by party leaders.
Brons, sitting on the top table, was clearly upset, particularly at the threats issued against North London Poly by Ian Stuart, now on the NF National Directorate.
Brons has been frightened for some time that the Front's known association with Italian terrorists, its increasingly open involvement in violence, and the rising number of prosecutions against its leaders, might rub off on him. A lecturer in constitutional law, he feared his career might be seriously jeopardised by these carryings on.
But Stuart's open threat that the Front was going to "annihalate the filth" at NLP as soon as Pat Harrington finishes his philosophy course, promised once and for all to pull the rug from under his claim to respectable academic status. A lecturer at one institution of learning might be hard pressed to explain how thugs under his leadership were justified in organising a campaign of violence against another.
Aware that Brons is invaluable to them as just such a responsible figurehead, the Front leadership were thrown into panic by his announcement that he was to resign.
© Searchlight Magazine 1985