BNP snubs NNP election deal

Griffin leadership challenge mounted?

An election deal offered to the BNP by New Nationalist Party leader Sharon
Ebanks has been snubbed by the BNP.

Ebanks made the offer on the Nazi Stormfront website, a known hangout for many BNP leaders - even though the same leaders have prohibited their members from posting there.

Responding to a BNP accusation that Ebanks's NNP was splitting the racist vote in Birmingham, Ebanks said:

"I'll do you a deal right here in public. Pull your candidate out of Kingstanding and I'll pull ours out of Shard End. If you refuse, it is you who are splitting the vote. No BNP leaflets have gone out in Kingstanding YET, and no BNP member has this year helped a single person in Kingstanding. Do we have a deal?"

Today's news that the BNP is to field a full slate of candidates across Birmingham seems to indicate that Ebanks does not have a deal - good news for anti-racists, since the BNP and NNP votes in at least two Birmingham wards will probably cancel each other out.

Sharon Ebanks is regularly abused by BNP members on ultra-right forums due to her allegedly mixed-race heritage, and her tiny party is clearly a thorn in the side of the BNP leadership, which moved quickly to have Ebanks's offer deleted from Stormfront.

Strangely, no such move has been made to quash rumours that Chris Jackson is to mount a challenge to Nick Griffin's leadership after the May local elections. At a time when the BNP is riven with disaffection for Griffin, Jackson's candidature will come as unwelcome news to the BNP chief and the unpopular clique running the party.

The BNP's founder, the late John Tyndall, wrote of Jackson: "A very able and well-respected organiser, Chris Jackson, suffered intolerable interference from people at party Headquarters and was driven to resign." Tyndall was referring directly to the Griffin clique.

Predictably, as the Jackson rumour surfaced, the NNP's Sharon Ebanks (posting as "Ontology" on Stormfront) hastened to widen the breach: "Excellent news. The NNP will be at his full service should he require help or assistance, and I hope the BNP will put democracy first and allow the BNP Bulletin to be handed over to both candidates to make their views heard to the entire membership. This would show the public and members that the BNP knows how to run things properly and fairly. I also admire that he is choosing after the May elections to challenge, the previous challenger disrupted the Euro elections to make his challenge."

Just as predictably, the BNP leadership's parade of sock-puppets were immediately deployed to deride the challenge and hint of damage to the BNP's local election prospects.

Given Nick Griffin's propensity for getting rid of potential challengers, Chris Jackson would do well to take the advice offered by many BNP members as news of his challenge spread - Watch your back!

Article supplied by DG at Voice of Reason