Talk:Richard Edmonds

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Politics of the United Kingdom

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Politics of the United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject Politics of the United KingdomPolitics of the United Kingdom articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Always far-right?[edit]

Is there anything to corroborate the assertion that Edmonds was once a member of the Labour Party? I appreciate that a lot of people on the far-Right begin in left-wing politics, so it wouldn't be unusual or out-of-place, even if true, but it somehow just doesn't seem to quite fit with Edmonds and he doesn't mention it in any of the biographical interviews I have heard him give. He did work as a teacher, apparently, but in an interview I heard him give recently he stated that he had misgivings about immigration quite early on, while at university in fact, or even before then - which would suggest a fairly narrow window for Labour Party membership. I'm not suggesting the assertion should be deleted, I'm just curious as to whether it can be sourced in the standard way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:861A:9C00:AC03:B166:F0E7:E87E (talk) 10:01, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In a word - no. It was added a few years ago by a user who made several unsourced additions to both this article and other NF-related ones. I personally have never encountered the assertion anywhere but here. No source so I've removed it. Keresaspa (talk) 16:57, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Following on from the above - there was a London County Council/GLC politician of the same name - a web search under 'Richard Edmonds GLC' gives several references (mostly via Google Books). Bare details here]. Does this clarify things? Jackiespeel (talk) 16:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, what a scandalous non-encyclopaedic ultra-biased Far-Left article. Speaks volumes about Wikipedia. 2A00:23C4:B63A:1800:5956:A1BB:7B1A:264 (talk) 11:06, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]