John Townend
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John Townend is a United Kingdom politician. He served as Conservative Party member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001; when he stood down. He was renowned for his controversial views on race and immigration, which got him into trouble from time to time. In 1984 he suggested that foreigners employed in industries should be replaced by unemployed Britons, and in 2000 he became engulfed in a row within the Tory Party when he said that Britons were becoming a "mongrel race". He was chairman of the right-wing 92 Group.