April 21st, 2010 | 
Author: News has reached today that the British National Party (BNP) candidate who hoped to be standing for election in Peterborough has failed to get the required (10) nominations to stand for election on May 6th.
The BNP Candidate for Peterborough was to be Dave Strickson, but it seems he couldn’t raise the tiny number of 10 people to nominate him to be able to qualify to stand in the 2010 General Election.
The BNP doesn’t appear to be standing any candidates on May 6th for Peterborough Council either, you can read the full list of prospective candidates for election on May 6th here.
This latest failure to gain enough nominations only adds to a dismal 2010 for the BNP, whom have also failed to get enough nominations to stand a mayoral candidate in Hackney on top of gaining just 2,236 votes across the United Kingdom during 2010 in council by-elections of which the BNP have stood candidates in 12 of those elections.
**UPDATE** 22/04
Thanks to a contributor (see comment below), there seems more clarification on this story, it would seem that he did in fact manage to gain the 10 signatures required however 8 of those signatures came from people living outside of the boundary area which therefore makes them void.
So it would seem he wanted to be the MP for Peterborough but failed at the first hurdle not knowing the boundaries of the area he would have been representing should he have won the seat. More BNP stupidity, know your area really should be one of the first sets of knowledge in any election campaign.
(If you read the comments section where a poster Pete has provided links that now confirm this story.
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Just to correct your story. He did get the required signatures. Unfortunately 8 of the signatures were from people who lived in the neighbouring constituency. Daft sod travels up here from Essex and doesnt bother to find out first the boundaries of the Peterborough constituency.
Thanks for the info there, as I said in the story I got it through Twitter so nothing was 100% confirmed. However in reality the story still remains correct in that he only got two nominations that were valid
But your info certainly helps.
Here is a newspaper link
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/bnp_loses_election_spot_in_form_error_1_620043
And the notice of candidates for Peterborough
http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/pdf/Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20Peterborough.pdf
Dave really is doppy
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Pete,
Thanks for providing the links for this, which now offers real confirmation of the story, in all honesty I haven’t had enough time to do the research on this one to get the links etc.
So thanks for the assistance on this one and for helping to confirm this. I have removed the link to this guys blog as I have no intention of helping to promote the BNP by providing links to thier website.