Clive Potter

Clive Roger Potter is a British nationalist and ufologist. He has been involved with a number of groups related to both subjects.
==Nationalism==
Potter was at one point a key member of an obscure party called the National Democratshttp://www.stopthebnp.org.uk/index.php?location=election&link=candidatesEuro.htm and stood as the party's candidate for Leicester West in the 1997 general election.http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/363.stm He later moved to the BNP and represented the party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections,http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/167.htmhttp://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge05/cand/BNP.htm and in the 2003 local elections.http://www.stopthebnp.org.uk/index.php?location=election&link=ElectionResultsMay2003.htm He was expelled from the BNP in 2007 after a dispute with its leadership.http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=NTMwOQ==http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2007/08/bnp-fake-union-man-expelled-from-party.htmlhttp://northwestnationalists.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/stab-in-back-how-nick-griffin-betrayed_14.html
He also used to be president of Solidarity, a trade union accused by some of being a front for the BNP;http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/06/bnps-fake-union-solidarity-already-up.htmlhttp://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/06/solidarity-situation-worsens-general.htmlhttp://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/06/solidarity-email-update-from-vice.html he claims to have founded the union at the behest of BNP legal director Lee Barnes. Potter subsequently got into a dispute with Solidarity's General Secretary, Patrick Harrington, over the union's finances;http://www.johninnit.co.uk/2007/06/29/solidarity-splitters/http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/07/bnp-discards-democracy-completely-to.html as a result of this the Solidarity union split in two, with Harrington and Potter each leading a faction that claimed to be the real Solidarity.http://hopenothate.org.uk/news/article/1047/unacceptable-practices-in-bnps-pretend-tradehttp://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/07/where-next-for-amoeba-like-solidarity.htmlhttp://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/07/solidarity-update-nick-griffin-heavily.html Reportedly, Potter has also been involved with the Christian Council of Britain.http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/apr/16/uk.localgovernment
After this, he became chairman of the English Community Group (Leicester).http://www.theecgl.org/contactus.htm In early 2012 he complained that City Mayor of Leicester Sir Peter Soulsby had refused to meet with the ECG(L) and, amidst grumbling about "the liberal establishment and the multi-cult extremists who wish to deny us our identity, culture and heritage", announced that the group had sent Soulsby an Equality Discrimination Questionnaire ordering him to explain himself.http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Standing-English/story-15156253-detail/story.html Potter's other complaints included the fact that Old English isn't taught in schools and that British census forms contain the category "white British", which "disenfranchises the English from its [sic] legal identity".https://web.archive.org/web/20150414211225/https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Anti-English-discrimination/story-15332617-detail/story.html The ECG(L) later expelled him.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-ZGVbuv5I
He has criticised the current BNP, along with the English Defence League, for being too multicultural.http://griffinwatch-nwn.blogspot.com/2010/01/british-multicultural-party.html?showComment=1264193616036#c5971471553570811241http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Standing-English/story-15156253-detail/story.html
The left-wing magazine Notes from the Borderland alleges that Clive Potter is the real identity of the blogger "Nemesis", who contributes to blogs such as NorthWestNationalists and Griffin Watch,http://www.borderland.co.uk/index.php/travel-mainmenu-32/22-the-secret-state/the-secret-state/83-lecomber-murder-plot-updatehttp://griffinwatch-nwn.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/stone-cross-st-georges-day-parade-by.html and is prone to ranting about "THE 'HOODED MAN' (OF WODEN'S FOLK' PROPHECY)".http://northwestnationalists.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/bnp-loses-all-12-seats-in-barking-and.html?showComment=1273271239685#c5434892871026337840
==Ufology==
Potter was once involved closely with Robert France, a man who has, allegedly, sometimes turned into an alien.
 Potter, France and France's girlfriend Shelagh Yeoman teamed up to form an organisation called Pendragon, which collaborated with the rock band C.E.IV to release an audio tape called The Shadow of Man in 1992; Pendragon broke up shortly after this project.http://www.ceiv.co.uk/music/http://www.ceiv.co.uk/experiences/entry?id=1
Potter has written a number of articles for the website AlienIncarnation.com. In one, he argues that UFO sightings and alien encounters are the work of artificial intelligences: "this sort of control system can manifest as aliens, angels and demons, faeries, monsters, the Virgin Mary and, in many cases, as seemingly human spirit guides." Potter believes that these AIs were created by beings remembered in mythology as gods, and that they operate by manipulating mankind's collective unconscious. "The AIs would have helped in constructing that consciousness with the purpose of guiding man’s evolution in a direction that the original creators of humanity desired", he writes. He goes on to argue that the AIs have been monitoring humanity since homo sapiens first evolved.
==Other activities==
Potter appears to have been involved with a group called Silent Majority, notable largely for opposing a Leicester gay pride/Mardi Gras event in 2000.Reports can be found here, here and here, but all are rather hyperbolic and should be taken with a grain of salt. Exactly how Potter can consider his rather curious views to be representative of the majority is unclear.
==See also==
*Lee Ingram
==External links==
* English Community Group (Leicester) website
==References==
Category:British people
Category:Right-wing activists
Category:Ufology