1937 – January 10th 2026.
British Movement Northern region is sad to announce the recent death of the British racial Nationalist veteran and Leeds-based BM supporter Ian Christie. Ian Christie was 88 years old.
Ian was a Scot, born in Dundee in 1937, and in common with many wartime children, he was evacuated out of Dundee in the early 1940s when the city was bombed by the Luftwaffe.
Ian went to live on the islands of Orkney as an evacuee from mainland Scotland, and he stayed there until the end of the war in the summer of 1945. He then returned to live in Dundee. In the 1950’s he was called up to do his national service, where he served as a soldier in the British Army for a couple of years.
Ian began his political life as a member of the Communist Party, but soon realised that communism was not the answer, and moved towards racial Nationalism. He joined the BNP in the late 1980s and soon became the Dundee Branch organiser.
In the mid 1990s, Ian joined the Ku Klux Klan and was jailed in 1998 for sending what the prosecution deemed a “threatening letter” to the Lord Provost of Dundee, who was honouring the ANC terrorist Nelson Mandela.
In his defence, Ian claimed that he did not send the letter, though he admitted handling it. However, the court found him guilty due to fingerprint evidence on the letter, and he was jailed. This was just one of Ian’s unfortunate encounters with the law due to his political actions.
After leaving the BNP, Ian became active on the internet and particularly on the online forum ‘Stormfront’, which was based in the USA and operated by the US White Nationalist Don Black. Ian became a moderator of Stormfront’s British section – using the name of “Taysider” (reflecting his origins in Dundee).
Ian Christie became disillusioned with the BNP and, in particular, with its then leader Nick Griffin and so resigned from the BNP.
Ian Christie and his family moved from Scotland to West Yorkshire and settled in Leeds, although Ian maintained contact with former BNP comrades in Scotland. Ian joined British Movement several years ago and was also a subscriber to the BM magazine ‘Broadsword’.
He did attend a number of British Movement meetings in Leeds and other towns in West Yorkshire.
*** It is worth noting that a certain ‘anti-fascist’ online report on the death of Ian noted with its usual leftist ‘know-it-all’ overconfidence that after the BNP, Ian Christie did not join any other Nationalist organisations. WRONG!
With thanks to Heritage and Destiny magazine for additional information on the life of Ian Christie.
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‘I Had A Comrade’ is a traditional German song played at memorials for the fallen. RIP Ken.
