Mark Adrian Cotterill was born on 3 October 1960 and is a far right political figure who has been involved in a number of movements throughout his career.
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14 Facts About Mark Cotterill
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Mark Cotterill is noted for activity to establish links between the far right in Britain and America, by founding the American Friends of the British National Party.
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Mark Cotterill "helped promulgate the New Atlantic Charter, signed between the National Front and the Nationalist Movement, pledging Anglo-American solidarity" and was "instrumental in arranging the exchange visit of Griffin to America".
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The Patriotic Forum published a right-wing conservative magazine entitled British Patriot which Mark Cotterill edited, and which featured articles by Steve Brady and Alan Harvey.
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Alan Harvey had formed the short-lived White Rhino Club, which supported apartheid in South Africa; Harvey later accused Mark Cotterill of sabotaging the Club's activities, but without substantiating the claim.
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In turn Mark Cotterill claimed to have expelled Harvey from the Patriotic Forum, although the organisation had no formal membership.
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Mark Cotterill was, for a short time, a member of the Conservative Party in Torquay in 1993, and was active in the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus.
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Mark Cotterill stood as an Independent Conservative in the local elections in 1995.
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Mark Cotterill was by now defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "key British neofascist".
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Mark Cotterill publishes and edits an ethnic nationalist bimonthly magazine called Heritage and Destiny.
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However, Mark Cotterill resigned the seat in May 2007 and stood down from the party leadership.
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On 7 May 2019, Mark Cotterill was interviewed for an article about the UK far right published in the Financial Times.
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