Barking and Dagenham finally and firmly closed the door on Richard Barnbrook and the BNP yesterday when voters in the borough's Goresbrook ward decisively rejected the racist party in a hard-fought by-election brought about by Barnbrook's objection that May winner Louise Couling had been ineligible to stand, being a lollipop lady employed by the council.
Couling, the Labour Party candidate, had the pleasure of beating Barnbrook all over again, and improved her own vote by 2.5%. The BNP threw everything it had at Goresbrook, the party's bigwigs, including Griffin, out in force last Sunday.
Griffin's presence may have been a mixed blessing for Barnbrook, since he insists on operating from within a cocoon of BNP security goons too moronic to realise that throwing menacing stares at members of the public going about their business in their own streets on a pleasant summer's day is apt to be a vote losing strategy.
The result (taken from Vote UK):
Lab 881 (46.6%)
BNP 642 (34.0%)
LibD 136 (7.2%)
Con 108 (5.7%)
Ind 63 (3.3%)
UKIP 50 (2.6%)
Ind 11 (0.6%)
In May the BNP vote fell from a 2006 high of 42.4% to 26.7%, but even without the big party squeeze brought about when local elections are fought alongside general elections Barnbrook recovered only 7.3% - good news, as many observers had believed the BNP might re-take the seat or come a close second.
The fact that the vote improved by 7.3% over the May result will doubtless be used by the beleaguered BNP leadership to add some much needeed gloss to Barnbrook's performance, and to save face following the sidelining of Barnbrook's election agent Eddy Butler in favour of enthusiastic mobile phone cameraman Clive Jefferson.
As Jefferson has been in charge of the BNP's election efforts for some weeks now, as well as taking responsibility for the Goresbrook result he might like to explain the disasters which occurred in the two other by-elections fought by the BNP on Thursday.
These were:
Chadwell (Redbridge LBC)
Lab 800 (31.5%)
Con 580 (22.9%)
LibD 576 (22.7%)
Grn 413 (16.3%)
BNP 115 (4.5%) Julian Leppert
UKIP 54 (2.1%)
May 2010 - failed to nominate.
May 2006 result:
LibD 1305 (37.60%)
Con 835 (24.08%)
Lab 706 (20.34%)
BNP 624 (17.98%)
and
Cockerton West (Darlington UA)
Lab 388 (45.12%)
LibD 347 (40.35%)
Con 84 (9.77%)
BNP 41 (4.77%) Paul Thompson, ex-jailbird
May 2007 result:
Lab 492 (40.02%) averaged
Con 308 (25.03%)
LibD 263 (21.37%)
BNP 167 (13.57%)
These results will demoralise an already badly demoralised BNP membership, and we somehow doubt that Nick Griffin's distraction tactics in the Euro Parliament (where he has nominated Dutch MEP Geert Wilders for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought) are going to cut much ice.
July 09, 2010
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No dear, Dicky's gonna have to get a real job now.....I hear he used to make movies!
P.S. Well done to all the anti-fascists who campaigned against Barnbrook over the last few weeks.
Great result. Maybe the BNP will finally get the message that ordinary people reject a party that is dedicated to hattred and division between British citizens.
Still no word on the Nutzie central site...... I reckon they are still around at Dicky's place, swilling Stella and moaning about the LibLabCon, State sponsored HnH, commie conspiracy.... before releasing a big splash on their webshite proclaiming that as Goresbrook is full of voting illegals and if they project the 'true' result nationwide the bnp commands over 87% of the vote. As a result the party needs to put aside its internal wrangling and have (another) last heroic effort to take the country.... and could everyone please send £50, cash, to bnp c/o Jim Dowsons offshore bank account.
Bloody hell, did I just win a secondment to bnp propaganda headquaters, Belfast?
"Griffin's presence may have been a mixed blessing for Barnbrook, since he insists on operating from within a cocoon of BNP security goons too moronic to realise that throwing menacing stares at members of the public going about their busines in their own streets on a pleasant summer's day is apt to be a vote losing strategy."
They are real doozies.
Real security is barely noticeable but these fuckwits do evrything they can to draw attention to themselves by giving it the whole sunglasses and dark suits bit, like gangsters in a bad B movie.
Our group of HNH leafleters saw the police tell them where to get off when they told people to walk around Griffin (go on the road) on the same day Bailey let rip.
They were saying to people "You can't walk here" and a copper said to them "Say that to anybody else and you'll walk there" (pointed at cop car).
Great results. The BNP is finished, no doubt about that.
Just what I want to read on a sunny summer morning!
The BNP have just about disappeared here in Birmingham. What's going to happen to all Nick's plans now they've got no income?
They've been knocked back to the Stone Age, where they belong.
Bostin!
just wait Griffin Dowson and Jefferson will all be sitting putting propaganda spin on this. I cant wait to hear the excuse.
UAF,Illegals,electoral fraud. Believe me Griffin will spin this to get his inner cult stronger and get more money in.
Still cant wait to hear it though lol
"No dear, Dicky's gonna have to get a real job now.....I hear he used to make movies!"
Unfortunately not. He still gets over £50,000 a year from London taxpayers as a wholly useless London Assembly member.
Bloody brilliant. The moron Gri££in is so unbelievably arrogant it defies belief.
For a start, after getting humiliated and hammered in the elections he presses for a by-election in the forlorn hope that they’ll come romping to a win and save some face.
To make matters worse, this was all caused because a lady helps children to cross the road for the council? How terribly sad and desperate of Bumbrook and Gri££in.
How much tax-payers money was wasted on this pointless by-election I wonder? The good news is that yet again we get to see Gri££in’s ugly true-self and the coward he is. He turns up for to deliver a few leaflets as a publicity stunt surrounded by his goons that make him look completely and utterly detached from the people he pretends to represent.
Anyone with a soul that believes in their quest would put themselves on the line a little and walk the walk, not snivel off behind their gimps into a waiting car every time someone’s dog farts.
Anyhow, Gri££in actually believes that the people of Barking and Dag are scum, he said as much after the elections.
Great result - interesting to see the results are not that much different than on the day of the general election - so they can't even blame that anymore
Great News, Barnbrook & Co are done for now, Barking will never again fall into their hands.
The BNP hasn't won a by-election in well over 2 and a half years, the writing is on the wall?
"cocoon of BNP security goons"
These 'goons' view themselves as some kind of proto-Shultzstaffel (the strong-arm squad Hilter had in the mid-1920's). Looking a early photos of the SS, they looked young, lean and fit. Griffin's security staff, on the other hand, appear clinically obese, desperately unfit and aged anywhere between 35 and 55!
Anonymous said...
The BNP hasn't won a by-election in well over 2 and a half years, the writing is on the wall?
3:14 PM, July 09, 2010
The last time they won a by-election was Paul Golding in Sevenoaks in Feb 2009. Previous to that, David Owens won in Boston in Nov 2009.
Somehow, somehow, I will get over my disappointment at Mr Barnbrook's failure to be elected.
Hee hee !!
Interesting to see the reaction elsewhere - not a lot of sympathy for him over on Stormfront.
And perhaps even more interesting is the response over on the BNP's own website, where there is a mixture of :
the deluded - "an excellent result for Richard Barnbrook"
the bonkers - "ALL elections should now take place in an Elective Martial Law environment"
and the deeply racist - "sod immigrants"
It's interesting that the BNP is allowing such crude and offensive racism through in comments - anybody able to grab a screenshot (or whatever it's called) for future use?
A sign of desperation methinks.
"It's interesting that the BNP is allowing such crude and offensive racism through in comments"
With no big elections on the horizon expect more overt racism and fascism from the BNP. Fascist parties in decline tend to become more extreme.
Here is a screen grab of the BNP website thread that iliacus mentioned.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/c7926387900874
If you use Firefox this is a pretty nifty addon for screengrabs.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/
I claim my prize!!!
"Mr Barnbrook faced an immense battle due to the rampant racial gerrymandering in the constituency, which saw thousands of African names added to the voters’ roll just prior to the last general election.
This deliberate campaign resulted in a massive Labour vote in Barking, which, despite an increased BNP vote, overwhelmed all comers. The overt racial voter increase also ensured that the Barking seat was one of the few Labour parliamentary seats in the country where that party’s vote actually increased at the last election.
Mr Barnbrook’s tenacity and refusal to give up paid off with the result yesterday, when it became clear that the BNP now unquestionably represents the majority of the indigenous British population in the area."
Lol............ they wuz beet
I see that to win a ward you have to only represent a select part of the voting population. I will stand next time... but only if one armed , lesbian, PHD's are allowd to vote.... OK?
So how exactly does "importing" Africans into a ward make the BNP vote so numerically puny?
Or has the council been deporting whites too?
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