From Lancaster Unity

Completely obliterated in the general election, the BNP’s rout continued today as the party lost councillors wholesale in the simultaneous local elections.

On the BNP’s showcase BARKING AND DAGENHAM council, where the BNP, with 12 councillors, formed the official opposition and expected to increase its presence, voters removed every councillor belonging to the racist party, making Barking and Dagenham BNP-free for the first time in years.

In Stoke on Trent, where the BNP had nine councillors and also formed the official opposition, two sitting councillors were ousted (two others defected from the racist party earlier this year), reducing their presence to five.

The party’s two remaining councillors in SANDWELL were removed, as were its sole representatives in SOLIHULL and LEEDS. Other losses have been recorded in BURNLEY and still others are being reported even as we post.

Nick Griffin’s failed strategy has left him exposed as an incompetent leader even to the most gullible among the slavishly pro-Griffin membership and efforts to topple him are gathering pace. Richard Barnbrook and ousted elections organiser Eddy Butler left the Barking and Dagenham count today openly discussing ways and means of deposing Griffin, who has completely lost control of events.

Whipped and humiliated from one end of the country to the other, disbelieving BNP members are wildly casting about for scapegoats on which to fix the blame for their political demise. The favourite seems to be the old “ballot rigging by the State” saw. Some, like the idiotic Paul Morris/Green Arrow, won’t have Griffin blamed at all for the expensive catastrophe into which he led his easily deceived admirers, with the active conivance of political illiterates like Morris, who we presume is hitting the Tesco lager with a vengeance.

There are interesting times to come for Nick Griffin and an increasingly disaffected BNP membership – and we’ll bring you every moment of them, with the greatest pleasure!

Nick Griffin and Simon Darby’s campaign to become Members of Parliament has ended in complete disaster, with both candidates falling well behind their mainstream rivals.

In Barking, Griffin came third behind the Conservative’s Simon Marcus with just 6,620 votes and a 14.6% share of the vote.

In Stoke-on-Trent Central, Simon Darby, the BNP’s deputy chairman, came fourth behind Labour, Lib Dem and the Conservative’s Norsheen Bhatti with a paltry 2,502 and 7.7% share of the vote.

And in Burnley, once a stronghold for the BNP, the party’s vote actually went down. Sharon Wilkinson, group leader of the BNP in the council, pulled in just 3,747 – an overall drop of 1.3%.

Nationally, the BNP did manage to increase its share of the total vote by 1.83% gaining 514, 819 – half as many votes it picked up in the European elections last year.

And so the blood letting begins.

A number of former BNP insiders have told Nothing British that the knives have been sharpening for a while, but this disastrous result – in a year when the BNP had a real opportunity to make a significant breakthrough on a national level – has only confirmed to the far-right that Griffin is a complete liability who has lost it politically, morally and electorally.

Alby Walker, the former leader of the BNP in Stoke, has exclusively told NB that he believes that ”once the dust has settled” the knives will be out for Griffin. He said: “Both Griffin and Darby over-estimated the BNP’s local popularity in Stoke. I can’t imagine them heading back here in a hurry.”

White nationalist extremist forums are already calling for Griffin to go. On Stormfront, the far-right internet forum run by the American Don Black (a friend of Griffin), contributors are blaming Griffin for elbowing local candidates in favour of his inner circle. Others have resigned to fact that the BNP were beaten on ideas and image. As one member said, it’s “time for a leadership change”, adding:

“Nick Griffin has modernised the party to the main stream motorway of politics , but when they took to the motorway his engine was too old and too slow to pull the political caravan. And today I awake to more of the same, 5 years of the same.”

Another member said:

“Adolf Hitler himself could be leader of the BNP and it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference. The public have spoken.”

Screen grab taken from Griffin’s Facebook wall

Over on Facebook it is much of the same. On Nick Griffin’s personal page, supporters are expressing their amazement at what went so disastrously wrong. Scott Eclestone, a BNP supporter from Telford, wrote:

“Gutted this morning people, what went wrong, thought Barking was ours for sure.”

Griffin is using the same old excuses such as “Labour’s immigrant block vote” for his own personal failings: Marmite, Simon Bennett, the EHRC and whites only membership policy, exploitation of veterans, policy, Bob Bailey, closet neo-Nazi candidates. Beyond this long list of nightmares, the fact remains that in Barking the BNP’s vote fell by 14% and that over 75% of the constituency still remains white.

The BNP should have ridden this election. The relative success in last year’s Euro’s, Question Time, the extra cash and the subsequent media attention (good and bad), and yet it has only managed a small increase of about 1.8%. If I was a BNP member I would be asking some serious questions about my party’s failure of leadership during such a potentially ground breaking moment. Instead it has completely flopped.

Maurice Cousins

“Nick Griffin has modernised the party to the main stream motorway of politics , but when they took to the motorway his engine was too old and too slow to pull the political caravan. And today I awake to more of the same, 5 years of the same.”

The British National Party (BNP) had two key councils they were targeting for the 2010 Elections, Stoke and Barking & Dagenham. I am monitoring results and here is the latest info, the BNP had made big claims of running the B&D council by today but haha:

I was going to run a seat by seat breakdown but no point, as the entire BNP in Barking and Dagenham has been wiped out, kaput, ZERO, NAFF all ……. Bye Bye BNP

Stoke:

The BNP had six councillors standing in 2010, two of which where up for re-election.

The two up for re-election both LOST their seats
The other four FAILED to get elected

This now leaves the BNP down on 5 councillors on Stoke Council which is down from 9 at the start of 2010.

Barking and Dagenham:

The BNP are standing 34 candidates for the Barking & Dagenham Council, results as follows:

Other Known Results:

Leeds:

The BNP stood 31 candidates in Leeds, and previously had one elected cllr, that elected cllr Chris Beverley LOST his seat, and none of the other 30 managed to win a seat.

This result leaves the BNP with NO seats on Leeds council.

To stand as a candidate in the UK election you must lodge a £500 deposit. If you get less than 5% of the vote, you don’t get it back.

We have data on 609 of 650 constituencies.

A BNP candidate appeared on 338 ballots (312 of which have been called). 263 have lost their deposit.

The BNP is currently down

£131,500

Good work!