She stood in the 1983 by-election in Bermondsey as an independent candidate, winning 69 votes, and attacked her opponents by labelling the Tory candidate a "multiracialist" and the National Front candidate a "socialist". She was equally unsuccessful when she stood as a British National Party candidate in the 1992 general election in Dewsbury. Through much of her later life, she published the journal "Choice", which presented a right-wing stance but was generally independent of any political party. "Choice" was described as a "stridently" anti-immigration magazine, which blamed all of Britain's problems on immigrants. It was observed there was a close stylistic resemblance between the pamphlets of the National Front and the articles in "Choice", leading to suspicions that both were being written by the same people. In 1988, she founded the English Solidarity Against Multi-Racialism group that worked with the British National Party in its efforts to protect the "Christian way of life". The group, which was closely linked with another of Birdwood's creations, the Gentile Self-Defense League, in efforts to stop non-white and non-Christian immigration to the United Kingdom. In Britain, membership of extreme-right groups tends to overlap, and individuals are often closely identified by their choice of a journal than by their group. In the 1980s-1990s Birdwood's journal "Choice" was one of the more popular journals together with "Candor" edited by Rosine de Bouneville. Birdwood's home was a popular meeting place for the extreme right  