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Thread ID: 6882 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-05-23
2003-05-23 22:06 | User Profile
BNP Steps into the mainstream HISTORY WAS MADE on Thursday 1st May 2003 when the British National Party walked out from the fringe of British politics and stepped into the mainstream.
In 220 seats across England, voters welcomed the BNP as a viable alternative to the establishment parties and supported our candidates in numbers never seen before.
While the stunning victory in Burnley has quite rightly grabbed the headlines along with the election of another 12 new BNP councillors, the most exciting success story of this campaign is hidden away in the results of our other candidates.
Gone are the votes of one and two percent. Throughout the country, BNP candidates polled between 10 and 30% of the vote. We aren't trailing in last any more, but are in real contention, mixing it with the other main parties, soaring to 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the poll and leaving Labour, the Tories and the Lib-Dems in our wake.
The vote in Sunderland gives the clearest indication of the BNP progress over the last 23 months. In June 2001 at the General Election we polled just 1,263 votes. On May 1st 2003 we polled 13,652, that's more than a tenfold increase in support and achieved on a lower turnout.