September 10, 2010

Thursday's by-elections - BNP corpsing

If anybody in the incredible shrinking BNP really believed that things could only get better following the party's disastrous general and local elections performance in May, last night's showings in Poole and Exeter really should open their eyes to the awful truth.

Confirming the post-May trend of BNP by-election results, the BNP corpsed spectacularly, taking a 3.9% share in Poole Newtown, with 66 votes in an abysmal 18% turnout, and in Exeter Priory fared even worse, taking a joke 2.7% with 53 votes in a 28.8% turnout.

Just as interesting from a personal point of view was the BNP's failure to contest a single ward in Norwich where 13 seats were up for election, the party having fought eight out of the nine Norfolk parliamentary constituencies in the general election. These elections were flagged months ago, giving Norfolk BNP ample time to prepare - but I'm very happy to report that the last confirmed sighting of the BNP in Norfolk was a meeting attended by just seven people from across the county. The party appears to have evaporated like mist on a mirror in the east.

The BNP stood in two other by-elections yesterday, both of them for Spennymoor Town Council (a town council is the equivalent of a parish council). One, as we are all aware, was elevated almost to the status of a parliamentary by-election by a party desperate to show a modicum of success to its demoralised members. Adam Walker's high profile campaign in tiny Spennymoor drew in activists from across the country, including GLA member Richard Barnbrook, and received more internal publicity and outside help than the Norwich North by-election last year.

Clearly the BNP were going for broke and believed Walker could win, but in the event he came third in a field of four, taking a 21.4% share with 264 hard earned votes. The second BNP candidate, not favoured with the resources sunk into Walker's campaign, took 7.74% and 47 votes.

We can expect the Walker result to be spun and a studious silence maintained on the matter of the two "proper" by-election results, but nothing can disguise the fact that the BNP is electorally comatose.

This should be grist to the mill of Eddy Butler's "Reform" group, which is due to hold a strategy conference tomorrow, but ever since Butler's meek acquiescence to the outcome of Nick Griffin's rigged leadership nomination process the wind has been leaving the Reform ship's sails. Butler proved himself devoid of the ruthless streak necessary to take Griffin on on his own terms and has failed either to sustain the motivation of his grass-roots supporters or to maintain momentum.

In a Reform website posting threaded with underplayed concern that the faction's campaign is becalmed and losing support through inactivity, the claim is made that three separate reports alleging financial wrong-doing at the top of the BNP have been submitted to the police in the hope of investigations being launched.

A last throw of the dice, or is Eddy Butler about to pull a rabbit out of the hat?

Presumably more details will emerge over the weekend.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a pity the local press didn't pick up on Walker's sex life? Or his recent visit to the Japanese war shrine?

UK Fightback said...

Beautiful :)

Anonymous said...

What do you expect with the numpty Jefferson running things lol. It wont be long before he runs the BNP into the ground.

Anonymous said...

Corpsing? Do you see the BNP as actors laughing on stage at the folly of life?

unplugged from the matrix said...

You mention the spennymoor election 'town council just like a parish council'
Spot on. but did you know most parish/town cllrs are co-opted on because of work they have done in the community.
On the rare occasion they are forced to go through an election the parish/town council has to pay for it out of there budget. So because Walker forced this election he has now made the town council sacrifice a huge part of its budget. Why. To get on as a parish cllr. 22000 local Councillors in uk and maybe twice as many in parish's.. they have a long way to go. considering they lost 2 parish cllr in cumbria alone. all walked away from party

-BIZ- said...

Wow - the Trevor Phillips thermometer has re-appaeared! Although, funnily enough it looks as though Jim Dowson / Nick Griffin must be having problems with their Maths skills as i'm sure they raised around 23K last time and now, all of a sudden, on this one they've only got 3K!

Anonymous said...

"Corpsing? Do you see the BNP as actors laughing on stage at the folly of life?"

No what we one itme BNPers see is all the life leaving a once vibrant body, to paraphrase JT, NG is a parasite feeding off a body in an advanced state of decay,

Or something like that. The Griffin Factor its the opposite of the Midas Touch

Anonymous said...

It's a pity the local press didn't pick up on Walker's sex life?

I hear he's a big fan of that practice so beloved of British Nationalists through the ages: Miscegenation.

Anonymous said...

"We can expect the Walker result to be spun..."

Maybe not... Even loyalist Kevin Scot has said it was a "flabbergasting" (non) result

Penny's beginning to drop.

Griffins BNP has had it

Anonymous said...

"...Nick Griffin must be having problems with their Maths skills as i'm sure they raised around 23K last time and now, all of a sudden, on this one they've only got 3K!"

Nothing unusual about that at all when you are dealing with the BNP. Expect an appeal to the membership now to replace the £20k that's gone missing!

Kev Scott loves The Jam said...

Wow - the Trevor Phillips thermometer has re-appaeared! Although, funnily enough it looks as though Jim Dowson / Nick Griffin must be having problems with their Maths skills as i'm sure they raised around 23K last time and now, all of a sudden, on this one they've only got 3K!

I was wondering about that too, 20k just for porky to make a trip to London for the afternoon?

BNP Membership = Mugs, if they stump up again!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

It's a pity the local press didn't pick up on Walker's sex life? Or his recent visit to the Japanese war shrine?

Not sure how the local press would cover stories emanating from the Blue Arrow. They were aware of Walker's Japan junket but, for whatever reason, chose not to run with it.

Last Wednesdy night a small group of folk met in the Kelly public House in Hebburn. Up until recently they would have described themselves as South Tyneside BNP. Not any longer. None of those present offered Walker any support in the later stages of the campaign.

The bnp in the NE is rudderless. Booth is still smarting at his sacking and is said to be furious at the prospect of one of the Walkers usurping his role. Interesting times ahead.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Arthur "apartheid" Kemp is now the Nazzers "Foreign Affairs spokesman".

SpokesNazi more like!

Anonymous said...

"Last Wednesdy night a small group of folk met in the Kelly public House in Hebburn."

This is the "KELLY" PH originally named after the "K" class Destroyer HMS Kelly that was built at Tyneside, commanded by Lord Mountbatten and lost in the evacuation of Crete.

And now home to a bunch of Nutzies - Mountbatten must be turning in his grave.

Old Sailor

PS The Noel Coward film "In wich we serve" tells the story of HMS Kelly.

Kev Scott loves The Jam said...

"Last Wednesdy night a small group of folk met in the Kelly public House in Hebburn."

Lol:
http://www.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk/tyne_and_wear_pubs/the_kelly_pub_hebburn.htm