The National Front which is an amalgamation of Fascists and other extreme right-wing groups, and which had lost the deposits of all its candidates in the 1970 general election (not one of them having polled the required one-eighth of the total vote to save his deposit), has put up for the Feb. 28 general elections 55 candidates.
Several of them are in constituencies contested by Jews, but this is accidental. Their program makes no mention of Jews as such. It concentrates on attacks on the Blacks, now numbering over a million and outnumbering the Jews by two to one, and on the race relations act, which forbids color discrimination. Their program also advocates “no admission for anybody to Britain, as the country is overcrowded already.” The attitude of the voters to this group will again serve as a barometer for the mood in the country, and the election results will be watched not only by Jews but also by civil liberties organizations and liberals in general.
Thirty-nine Jews are seeking re-election, of whom eight are Conservatives (including Michael Fidler, immediate past-president of the Board of Deputies) and one Liberal, Clevent Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud. The 30 Laborites include Greville Janner, the son of Lord Janner of Leicester and Ian Mikardo. a former chairman of the Labor Party.
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