A few year’s ago, as a political party the BNP was in the ascendant. It consistently posted a series of good by-election results as it contested more and more by-elections in many previously virgin territories. For several years the BNP averaged over 15% in these local by-elections. The Labour Party were beaten by the BNP in the Henley Parliamentary by-election. In the yearly round of local elections literally hundreds of BNP candidates stood with full slates put up in many local authorities. The BNP got someone elected to the Greater London Assembly and two MEPs elected to the European Parliament.
These are the benchmarks by which ‘normal’ political parties are judged.
It has however been downhill ever since then.
The fundamental reason is that the inherent weaknesses and contradictions that exist within a fringe and unnecessarily ‘extreme’ party came home to roost.
The BNP never shook off its ‘far far right’ legacy. It had positioned itself on the margins of society and attracted far too many fringe players and not enough people who were grounded and ‘normal’. Hence when push came to shove it could not respond. Collectively it was unable to recognise the corrupt nature of the Nick Nick Griffin regime and take the necessary action.
Obviously some individuals did and these individuals did at different times. But collectively the BNP did not.
The decay has been all too obvious ever since the General Election in May 2010.
Let’s examine some tangible examples.
In the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, held in January 2011, the BNP polled 4.5% compared to 5.7% in the 2010 General Election (itself something of a low point compared to previous years). That is a decline of over 21%.
In the Barnsley Central by-election, held in March 2011, the BNP polled 6.0% compared to 8.9% in the General Election. That is a decline of over 32%.
In the May 2011 Scottish Parliamentary Election the BNP polled 0.8% of the vote compared to 1.2% in 2007. That is a decline of over 33%.
In the May 2011 Welsh Assembly Election the BNP polled 2.4% of the vote compared to 4.3% in 2007. That is a decline of over 44%.
In the Feltham and Heston by-election, held in December 2011, the BNP polled 2.3% of the vote compared to 3.5% in the General Election. That is a decline of over 34%.
The local election results have been even more appalling.
This remorseless and uninterrupted decline points to one thing this May and one thing only.
Defeat and the loss of the BNP’s nominal seat on the Greater London Assembly.
You need to get over 5% of the vote across London to get a GLA member elected. In 2008 the BNP polled 5.3%. It scraped over the finish line at a time when the BNP was near its peak in terms of electoral support, when there were active branches all over London that regularly contested local by-elections and the BNP had elected councillors in three boroughs.
Now the BNP has a couple of active units, no councillors, and its occasional forays into electoral politics has led to humiliation.
A decline of 20% in the BNP’s vote – which is a smaller diminution than that experienced by the BNP in any major election since 2010 – will result in the BNP getting just 4.2% and obviously no GLA member.
A more likely decline of 35% will see the BNP poll just 3.4% across London.
THE PHANTOM TEXTER OF OLD LONDON TOWN
The BNP could only muster eleven activists from across London today and they were mightily proud of that number. That was the message that went out today from the ‘Truth Truck’ which should be renamed the 'Text Truck', as I understand that it was used as a base from which to send frantic text messages while the ‘day of action’ was in progress in Romford. A full 2,300 leaflets were supposedly delivered while the texting was in progress. In the run up to the 2008 Greater London Assembly Election the effort was ten times greater and still the BNP only just scrapped home.
FIRING BLANKS
Furthermore these leaflets are falling on stoney ground. The BNP is now an utterly toxic brand. The BNP London campaign is politically impotent, it is firing blanks. It is also organisationally inept as all the experienced and capable officers have left. The efforts of those that remain are utterly inadequate.
Inadequate, inept, impotent. The dreaded three I’s.
Those that remain in office bend over backwards to please Nick Nick Griffin. It is a political form of being Gay for pay. Except there will be no pay!
A PEST?
Oh, I know they will think I am a terrible pest for reminding them of this, but it is the simple truth.
But I will carry on being a pest, as there are still some people who need to be saved.
They may think that it is admirable to hang in there in a fake show of stoicism. However it is not an admirable trait to be devoid of external signs of being affected by pain or distress. We feel pain as a warning against further suffering. Needless suffering.
SENSIBLE PROTECTION
I don’t want to leave people without hope – unprotected from the trials and tribulations of life.
To keep vital they say we should all have five-a-day, or is it six? I forget. But we are not talking about vegetables here, we are talking politics.
The political equivalent of the healthy five-a-day are the sensible policies of the English Democrats.
The golden key, the answer to our political problems, is held by the English Democrats.
I pointed out some time ago that there would not be any sensible alternative to the English Democrats for anyone who wants to do something credible in nationalist politics. There simply is not and will not be anything else.
You have however to get your head around two simple things.
Firstly, the nature of the Union has changed and is changing. There is devolved government in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The English Democrats firmly support the creation of an English Parliament. It does not favour independence for England. It supports a devolved assembly for England and a federal structure for the British Isles that will in fact renew and strengthen the intrinsic unity of these islands. The imbalance that now exists is to England’s detriment. It will be the cause of increasing resentment if this problem is not addressed. Scotland, under Alex Salmond’s SNP government is in any case is actively weakening the Union and may present England with a fait accompli.
Secondly, the English Democrats' policy is to call a halt to inward migration and to expel illegals. It supports the preservation of our English cultural identity and will act vigorously to defend and nurture this. Those who hanker after a ‘stronger’ racial or ethnic policy are living in cloud cuckoo land. At a time when inward migration is set to expand our population by 50% in a couple of decades and when ‘old style’ nationalism has delivered a crushing collapse, it is unrealistic to hanker after more. This is also recognised by parties such as the Front National under Marine Le Pen, the Austrian Freedom party and the Flemish separatists, the Vlaams Belang.
So to get involved with the English Democrats (the only nationalist party that has seen any increase in its votes in elections since 2010) ,as I sincerely hope that every sensible nationalist will, you just have to accept and support these things. The only way to save our country from destruction is to follow this path.
Posts
The BNP is finished in Scotland now there are no meetings no activists and most of all the last few members are devoid of any plans for the future of Scotland.
ReplyDeleteNick you have destroyed the dreams of thousands do the decent thing and crawl away
Do you a position in the ED Eddie.
ReplyDeleteWho do we join if we're not in England (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland?)
ReplyDeleteHow about a post evaluating the options?
Why are you so obsessed with the BNP Eddy? You did your best to wreck things there and I no doubt you will try destroy the English Democrats too. It's a shame Mr Tilbrook hasn't seen through you yet. All you can do and all you have ever done is moan. You have nothing positive to say. Still, this is probably why the vast majority of people want nothing to do with you. Your glass is always half empty.
ReplyDeleteEddy you should really worry about the English Democrats. You are sound like a bitter old ex. Forget the the werewolf, more like an old poodle woof woof.
ReplyDeleteWho is English? a very lovely girl I know whose parents both came from India, will only describe herself as English, being born and raised here,and having a high IQ and a good education is an asset to this country, but paradoxically will only marry a man of Asian origin. Is there such a thing as genetic racism that comes from within? can Dianne Abbott help me on this one?.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Griffin will get the message following failure at the GLA? (Semi rhetorical question) BTW, 'I Want You To Want Me' by Cheap Trick is one of my all time favourites.
ReplyDeleteFour years ago a day of action in Havering,or any other London Borough,saw 60 activists deliver 24,000 leaflets,in a good weekend an entire borough was leafleted.
ReplyDeleteIn 2009 campaigning in London for the EU elections saw between 7 and 30 activists at 7 or 8 locations at the same time.
The stoic remnant now leaflet half of one ward in a day,just what do they think they are doing or achieving?
Anyone who knows Steve Squire(London Organiser) should tell him gently and tactfully(for he is a decent chap)that he is wasting his time and money and is being used and abused more than any previous regional or group organiser.
Griffin knows the game is up,he has dismantled a nationwide organisation rather than be honest and accountable,he has toxified the BNP name with his behaviour,image and remarks and is just using the remnant to scrape along while he is probably trying to negotiate minimum damage to himself from the possibly imminent civil and criminal proceedings.
I do not know if the English Democrats are the answer,whether they can muster the activist base the BNP had just 2 years ago or perhaps they can be smarter with PR and marketing than Griffin and R.Barnbrook(though that should not be difficult).But this I do know,at current rate of decline the BNP are on course to be eclipsed by the ED and hammered by UKIP at the GLA election this year.
So Steve Squire and the stoic remnant face reality even if it is painful,you are banging your heads against a wall and in the process just supporting the traitor Griffin who destroyed the BNP.
Ex Sub Regional Organiser and candidate
I agree with most of what you saying and with most of the English Democrats policies but they refuse to recognise we are in fact ethnically English, which is the one thing that bothers me. Every other racial group in this country are recognised by who they are ethnically except the English people. If/when the ethnically English people become a minority what happens then? Most civic nationalist parties are arguing that we do not exist as an ethnic group. If the population doubles by 50% in the next two decades and every immigrant decides to call them self English the English Democrats would not have a problem with this, would they? Because, in their view, if you call yourself English that makes them as English as you and me. If this happens what would the English Democrats opinion be? Would the English be a minority or a majority?
ReplyDeleteLet’s say for instance white English people where a minority in fifty years and made up only 20% of the population meaning 80% of the population were made up of “BME” groups (Black Majority Ethnic groups). But 50% of the “BME” groups were fully pledged Englishmen and women. They followed our culture, supported our football team, flew the flag of St. George outside their house, celebrated St. George’s day etc, etc, etc. Would the English Democrats call the English People a minority or a majority? Would the English Democrats even care if white English People become a minority in their own country?
If i didn't have these concerns I would seriuosly consider voting and even joining the English Democrats.
I still believe you will be blown off course. The party will get weaker as it grows, look at the FN in the 1990s.
ReplyDeleteStopping immigration isn't enough to start with, at the very least say you will expel those that have come here in the last five years and that you won't tolerate Islamic growth.
At best you guys could get someone with Thatchers immigration polcy elected - and a fat lot of good that did.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ReplyDeleteI have just allowed my membership of the BNP to lapse as I cannot see any political future for the Party over the next three years and beyond under the leadership of Nick Nick Griffin.
ReplyDeleteI have taken a serious look at all the Parties and Groups that have shot up during the past two years in the wake of the problems associated with the BNP. Bearing in mind that the people involved in setting up these Parties and Groups have, in the past, held senior positions within the BNP and helped contribute to the party failure, none of them meet my political aspirations as it would just be more of the BNP Menu served up on a different platter with the same bitter taste.
It appeared a possible alternative was being formulated following the ‘Parallel Structure Initiative’ overwhelmingly approved by the delegates and fronted by the Brent Group and Andrew Moffitt, at the BNP Ideas Conference in October last year. Andrew Brons now appears to have buried this initiative judging from recent articles published by him on the Web Site and the absence of a response from the Brent Group or Andrew Moffitt.
I have just had a detailed read of the English Democrat’s constitution and found it compatible with the majority of my nationalist political aspirations and found it not as ‘Civic Nationalist’ as many would have us believe since a clear distinction between ‘The English’ and ‘The People of England’ is defined.
The full constitution can be found here:
http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-full-manifesto.html#3.17
Eddy you keep knocking the work of BNP activist, but please tell us what the English DIMocrats are doing.
ReplyDeleteEddy,I do and always have believed in "racial Nationalism"Am I now judged by you to be neither "sensible or normal"do I have to "sell my soul to the devil"to be accepted? I THINK NOT.
ReplyDeleteoh dear you put down the bnp and a man (squire) who is trying his best and working hard for this nasty bitching feminine nationlist cause, and all you do eddy is post your silly pictures of your baldheaded mug when are you actualy going to get of your arse and do something apart from sticking your tonge in robin tilbrooks stinking arse, you know nationalism is over fullstop all your really doing is treating us all like mugs that includes your team of arselickers.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it just be easier to openly state the names of those that you wish to "save", give them the one opportunity to defect to the ED's and then move on?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9030913/English-backlash-on-devolution-begins-finds-report.html
ReplyDeleteEnglish 'backlash' on devolution begins, finds report
More than half the English think England should go it alone in the first real signs of a backlash over devolution, a report said today.
By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
6:50AM GMT 23 Jan 2012
England should either have its own parliament or only English MPs should vote on English laws, according to the survey by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) think tank.
The report, The Dog That Finally Barked, said four in ten people identify themselves as English before British, more than twice the proportion for vice versa.
And eight in ten believe Scotland should break all financial ties – the so called “devolution max” – because it benefits unfairly from the current relationship.
But a quarter of people said they had no confidence in the ability of any political party to stand up for the interests of England.
The research comes as Scotland’s ruling Scottish National Party this week launches a consultation on its plans for a referendum on future independence.
The ippr report said it was surprising that an “English backlash” did not materialise after devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but that “there are now signs that stirring within England is beginning to take shape”.
The English survey found more than half said Scotland’s economy benefits more than England’s from being in the UK and only one in four now support the status quo.
Nick Pearce, ippr director, said: “English identity is on the rise and it is increasingly expressed in terms that are resentful of the devolution settlement.
“Our mainstream political parties need to embrace Englishness, take it seriously, and find new ways of giving it political expression.
“The longer this debate is ignored, or worse, denied, the more likely we will see a backlash within England against the UK."
Richard Wyn Jones, Professor of Politics at Cardiff University and co-author of the report, added: “Despite the exhortations of successive governments that have focused exclusively on Britishness, it is clear that at the popular level it is Englishness that resonates most.”
'The euro will be a paragraph in history' says nationalist Marine Le Pen as she soars in polls with promise to quit single currencyBy Daily Mail Reporter
ReplyDeleteLast updated at 12:34 PM on 20th January 2012
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen is soaring in the polls in the country's Presidential quest with pledges to ditch the euro and deport all illegal immigrants.
The 43-year-old is capitalising on President Nicolas Sarkozy's falling popularity ratings following the news that France has been stripped of its prized AAA credit rating by Standard and Poor.
Sarkozy lost two points in the polls, down to just 23 per cent, since the credit rating was downgraded last week.
Head to head: National Front leader Marine Le Pen claims she has closed the gap in the polls with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Le Pen's standing went up by one per cent after she vowed to raise the wages of the poorest workers by £160 a month and pay for it by slapping a three per cent tax on imported goods.
Ignoring claims that her policies would risk inflation she pledged to restore the nation's sovereignty by printing more currency, up to 80 billion pounds a year, and return the country to the French franc 'as soon as possible.'
She said recently: 'The euro will be a paragraph in history and it will
collapse in the coming months.'
And she stated: 'Under Mr Sarkozy, unemployment has exploded, national spending has reached vertiginous proportions, and his immigration policy is an economic folly.
'But taking into account the margin of error in the polls, the difference between me and him is now zero.'
Her nationalist manifesto is now gaining mounting appeal with French voters facing increasing austerity measures to tackle France's surging debt crisis.
The latest survey by pollsters Ifop showed socialist Francois Hollande would win the first round of the presidential election with 27 per cent of the vote.
If she continued to gain votes at the same rate, she would overtake Sarkozy before the presidential election in May, Ifop said.
Her father Jean-Marie Le Pen beat the socialists in the first round of the 200 presidential election, for a seond round run-off with Jacques Chirac, who finally won the election.
Another study by TNS Sofres showed that 31 per cent of French people agreed with Le Pen's ideas, up from 22 per cent a year ago.
TNS chief executive Edouard Lecerf said: 'This demonstrates the Marine Le Pen effect. The rough edges of aspects of the ideas of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been smoothed out.'
Economic analyst Jacques Cailloux added: 'The loss of the triple A rating has lead to an increase in support for fringe parties.
'The downgrade could benefit extreme-right candidate Le Pen who has enjoyed a significant increase in popular support over the last few weeks.'
Le Pen now needs to garner the signatures of 500 French mayors to formally qualify as a presidential candidate. So far she has only mustered almost 300 - marginally less than at the same stage during her father's 2007 campaign.
She added: 'I cannot imagine how my electorate would react were I not able to become a candidate. The image of France in the world would be damaged.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089354/The-euro-paragraph-history-says-nationalist-Marine-Le-Pen-soars-polls-promise-quit-single-currency.html#ixzz1kGkT2kbL
Please read this, it proves Gri££in uses attack dogs.
ReplyDeleteNick Griffin’s “Vermin”: Qualities Which Make up Political Failure
http://bnpideas.com/?p=3529#comment-29325
I know all about that Griffin text already - after all I am one of Griffin's vermin. The biggest of them all I like to think. BUt t bre caled vermin by Griffin is like being called a saint by anyone else!
ReplyDeleteThe BNP were never a serious party those that remain must be happy with their sect like mentality. Are the EDs for real? They would need to grow significantly then come to an arrangement with UKIP. A moderate, soft ethno nationalism is required, but a hard edged confrontational patriotism like the FN without the socialist dribble.
ReplyDelete