British National Party - United Kingdom
The British National Party was founded in 1982 by John Tindall as an offshoot organization from the British National Front (no relation to the French Front National) due to dissatisfaction with both the mainstream parties and with the leadership of the far right parties of the day. Tindall led the party to become Britain's leading extremist party throughout the 80's and 90's enacting several mergers with other smaller parties and leaching off voters from the mainstream conservative party. They experienced a change in leadership in 1999 when Nick Griffin called a vote to get himself placed in charge of the party. Since then the party has modernized significantly so that while still a marginal party nationwide, they are at least able to stay relevant and capture a very small number of seats. They have never had any nationwide or regional success though they have a few towns and counties in which they traditionally do very well, currently the only seat they have above the county level is one seat on the European Parliament, held by Nick Griffin himself.
The BNP's ideology is similar to that of the Front National in France, Anti-Immigration, Anti-EU, Anti-Free Trade, Anti-Globalization, but in addition to these more secular issues, they also add in a large amount of conservative religious values, speaking out extremely hard against abortion, gays (not just marriage, but saying gay sex should be illegal), and compulsory religious classes and prayer in school.
As is common with far right groups such as this, the British National party has an extremely negative view on immigration and would instead prefer a Britain filled solely with Britons. Britain has experienced an enormous surge in immigrants in recent years, over a million from Poland alone and around the same number from Muslim nations. The BNP, and a large number among the voting public, feel that this is taking jobs away from British workers, effectively making them strangers in their own country. While many feel that this is an issue and that the actual British workers should get jobs before the immigrants, many disagree with the BNP's belief in racial superiority and separation, instead believing that as citizens they should get the job, not because they are white. While their views on immigration would likely earn them a certain degree of support among the public without the racial element thrown in, with the race card having been played, they find themselves losing the vast majority of their potential voters to the United Kingdom Independence Party, UKIP, and the mainstream conservative party, the Tories.
Much like the Front National, the BNP believes that the European Union is taking away the UK's autonomy and will eventually take away their "Britishness" and force them to become part of a united Europe. On this front their arguments are almost exactly the same as those of Front National, they want a Britain run by Britons, nobody else should be involved. They feel that the European lawmakers in Brussels should not be able to place any law or restriction on the United Kingdom, especially the Schengen Agreement, which forces them to allow immigrants from any European Union country, they blame the EU for causing the sudden demographic shift in the last decade and for taking good British jobs from good British workers and giving them to immigrants from Poland or Albania who will work for half the price. The BNP believes that the best way to protect the British economy as well as the British people is to pull out of the EU as soon as possible, preventing new immigration and new regulations passed upon them by foreigners. While this is again a very popular message among the public, they find themselves losing voters who would vote for them if not for their rather blatant racism, to UKIP, a party who's primary messages are the same as the BNP but without the racism. Because of this, the BNP will likely not be able to make a huge impact on national politics at any point in the foreseeable future.
Where the BNP differs from most other European Far Right groups is that they attempt to shroud themselves in extremely conservative religion to give themselves a veneer of legitimacy. They attempt to say that they are doing God's will by attempting to get rid of all of the immigrants and gays. They believe that the Anglican Church is inherently part of the British state and that as such all people should at least nominally follow it. They want to not only allow prayer in school, but to outright demand it. They want compulsory religious classes in all schools public and private. They believe that Church and state are not only inseparable, but that any attempt to separate them would be blasphemy. This policy of religious zealotry does earn them some support from the extremely religious elements of society, but for the majority, it just alienates them, taking away yet more people who might potentially vote for them, and sending them to the secular UKIP.
The BNP has an extremely harsh view on crime, wanting to re-institute the death penalty and apply it to murderers, traitors, rapists, paedophiles, assaulters, and drug dealers. They also want to repeal the 1998 human rights act giving them more freedom to torture prisoners. They want to establish a penal colony for violent offenders in South Georgia, an island literally thousands of miles from anything. And they want to "remove political correctness" from the police force, a phrase which here means, blame the minorities.
Compared to their American counterparts, the BNP is most easily comparable to the American Nazi Party, a small racist fringe group which is effectively barred from politics. As their discontent grows however, the BNP is beginning to closely resemble some aspects of the KKK, namely the recent emergence of the English Defence League, effectively a paramilitary organization which protests outside the homes of immigrants and non Christians. While they are more organized than the Tea Party in America, they are not nearly as influential, they cannot really get anyone who is not an out and out racist to vote for them because they have to compete with UKIP, a party which shares all of their beliefs, besides the racism. In Britain while their has been a rightward shift over the past few years, the Far Right is still very weak in comparison to the center. While this may change as the right grows stronger, but only time will tell.