old mentor A.K. Chesterton and a spokesman of the Racial Preservation Society. The result of the meeting was the founding of the National Front in 1967. NF and political retirement Bean became something of a peripheral figure in the NF, as the BNP element was somewhat sidelined. He held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Executive Directorate, a body which was largely subordinate to the Policy Directorate, and stood as second candidate for the Ealing constituency in the 1967 Greater London Council elections until resigning in 1968. Still an NF member, he was recalled to positions of minor influence from time to time until 1972 when he largely ceased active involvement. Retreating into political retirement, his membership lapsed in 1977 and he emerged only briefly to lend some support to his old friend Andrew Fountaine's Constitutional Movement and to take part in the Countryside Alliance march of 1 March 1998. During this period he wrote two books. Ten Miles From Anywhere (Hedgerow Publishing 1995), looked at the changes in a Suffolk village from the beginning of the 20th century. Many Shades of Black, (New Millennium 1999), was Bean's political memoires up to that date. He subsequently wrote a novel Blood in the Square which fictionalized some of his political experiences in the 1960s. In August 2016 his historical novel Trail of the Viking Finger was published by Troubador Publications. Bean in the BNP and BDP Bean eventually ended his retirement after the political fall of John Tyndall and joined the British National Party under the leadership of Nick Griffin. He became an active official of the BNP (mostly in administration) and was a candidate for the party in the 2004 European elections, where he was seventh on a list of seven candidates for the Scotland constituency. He formerly ran his own website, but then wrote a regular column for the main BNP website, and served as editor of BNP magazine Identity until March 2010. Due to dissatisfaction with his leadership, Bean demanded that Griffin resign as National Chairman and focus more on the North West region. In May 2011, Bean endorsed Andrew Brons (the BNP MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber). He made significant contributions to the Brons team web site, including articles on Genetics and Inheritance and Nationalism and a European Confederation. He subsequently became involved in Brons's party the British Democratic Party, established in February 2013. Personal