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Thread ID: 15655 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-11-15
2004-11-15 22:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE]I'm unsure that the BNP will win MEP's in June - Northwest England and Yorkshire are to be postal votes only which may have scuppered their slim chances. The PeeCee UKIP are being puffed by the media as the "alternative vote". I think maybe 6-7% is the best that can be hoped for.[/QUOTE]
Back in January I posted this on a thread discussing various things in Britain.
[url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11977[/url]
My predictions for the BNP were uncannily accurate, their best Euro share in June being in Yorkshire with 8% or so of the vote and a few gains a losses resulting in a total of 21 local council seats, up from 17 (out of 20000 or so!).
The establishment-backed multiculti supporting UKIP won 14 Euro MPs, as much as that mattered, after the part-chosenite former politician turned Donahue-style discussion show host Robert Kilroy-Silk (mentioned in that thread criticising Arabs) mentioned in the linked thread joined them, his TV career down the pan.
All in all a dissapointment for nationalists.
Since then the party have gained another council seat in the rapidly browning East London suburb of Dagenham, with 52% of the vote, the first time they have gained an absolute majority at election (albeit on a turnout of 2500 voters). Other than that, a couple of near misses in the same town, but little else, and it seems the party's star is on the wane.
Allegations about the corrupt nature of the party's leadership, plus the dodgy pasts of a few close to Griffin are once again coming to the surface (the reason I haven't joined the party BTW, I couldn't care less about 40yr old photos of John Tyndall in fancy dress). These have rumbled on since 2000 when popular activists Steve and Sharron Edwards and long-serving press officer Mike Newland left the party after first being expelled for questioning party finances. Sharron Edwards is now councillor for the splinter Freedom Party (making 23 'patriotic-right' councillors nationwide), which, whilst a noble gesture at running a party properly, has made the deadly mistake of being [I]dull[/I], see [url]http://www.freedompartyuk.net/[/url]
What is most interesting is that both the Edwards and Steve Smith, the latter the architect of the BNP's most striking success in Burnley, have made similar accusations of Griffin and have allied themselves (unofficially of course on the Edwards part) with party founder Tyndall, image of the 'old' BNP. See [url]http://www.spearhead.com/0411-ss.html[/url], or google usenet for 'MikeinCamden'.
The BNP are in hot water at the minute, having not filed audited accounts for 2003 as required by the Electoral Comission. Pathetic excuses of closed bank accounts have been made by the leadership (why would that affect 2003 audit?), but rumours abound of financial wrong doing. Latest gossip is that the party may be closed down on January 1.
Furthermore anyone challenging the party leadership can be expected to be arbitarily expelled, as has happened to Tyndall for the second time recently. [url]http://www.spearhead.com/[/url]
All in all quite depressing. However, the party membership is waking up to what is being done, and the best that can be hoped for is Tyndall (the only man with the means and experience for the fight) successfully challenging Griffin to hand over to a new leader, or at least weakening him enough to make his position untenable.
These are my thoughts, quite possibly based on hearsay and score-settling, but Britain may have to wait a bit longer for her version of the FN.
2004-11-16 17:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jim]All in all a dissapointment for nationalists......
These are my thoughts, quite possibly based on hearsay and score-settling, but Britain may have to wait a bit longer for her version of the FN.[/QUOTE] Count your blessings. At least you are still legal (even though you didn't join, your obviously still a "supporter") unlike in Belgium.