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As 2010 elections develop the British National Party continues to achieve poor results, the latest council by-election which took place on Thursday 8th April just four weeks before the 2010 General Election in the Tendering District Council Golf Green Ward (Tendering for those who are not aware is in Essex), something of a target area for the BNP in 2010.

This is an area where the BNP would like to show high in the polls to show evidence that their 2010 General Election campaign could go well in the Essex area, the best the BNP could manage was 139 votes and fourth place out of six.

The result is as follows:

Labour 409
Conservative 404
Tendring First 313
BNP 139
Independent 120
Liberal Democrat 63

Considering the BNP likes to see Essex as a power base for their brand of politics this fourth place must be something of a let down this close to the 2010 General Election, Barking and Dagenham is a serious target area for the British National Party at local council level, so this practice run for the main event must be hitting home that they face an uphill battle to out poll the Labour Party or even the Conservatives who came in a very close second.

So if even the BNP’s core target voters don’t want to elect them at local level do you want to waste your vote in the 2010 General Election?

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Results from the latest Council Election in which the British National Party (BNP) have stood a candidate show the BNP receiving just 35 votes,

March 25th Bay of Colwyn Town Council – Glyn Ward RESULT Lab 150, PC 121, LD 78, Ind 62, BNP 35, Ind 26

This low result for the BNP adds to the rest of the BNP’s low results for 2010, having stood in 11 council elections so far in 2010, the BNP have only managed to gain 2,231 votes from all 11 elections combined, although the ward doesn’t seem to be that big and the general number of people actually voting is relatively small, the more low numbers the BNP get the better things look for the 2010 General Election.

The BNP love to portray themselves as a party who are gaining more power and a bigger voting base, but the reality is their for all to see, with such a low number of votes across 11 elections proves the BNP really are not expanding their power base.

The reality is the BNP are losing the voters they did have, with the BNP vote share dropping by almost 50% in 3 of this years council elections, and the rest remaining low support for the BNP. Then consider the BNP power base in local politics only extends to under 50 councillors now after the recent loss of a councillor during an election and Alby and Ellie Walker leaving the BNP in Stoke.

50 out of over 20,000 councillors across the UK really isn’t a power base to write home about.

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Two more council by-elections held today where the British National Party have stood candidates, and following the recent run of results for the BNP their vote share remains low dropping again by almost 50% from a previous 2008 election.

Last Nights Results

Wellingborough BC Redwell West

Conservative Party 570
Labour Party 186
BNP 84
Liberal Democrat 72
English Democrats 62
Green Party 23

This is another bad result for the BNP since in the previous election the BNP took 177 votes, which shows a further drop of almost 50% in the BNP share of the vote.

Dacorum BC Adeyfield West

Conservative 486
Labour Party 429
Liberal Democratc 362
BNP 203

This now means that in the 10 Council By-Elections the BNP have stood in so far in 2010 they have only taken 2,196 votes, which by any party which claims to be The Voice of British People or the 4th Biggest political party is something of a piss poor set of election results.

If these results where coming in for any other party they would be considering getting rid of the party leader damn quick, but as this is the British National Party (BNP) I won’t be expecting that to happen any time soon.

But it certainly shows the anti-BNP message is getting out their where it matters and the British voting public are:

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We’ve all been hearing the hype whipped up by the BNP since the European Elections in 2009, this can be seen as the point where many people had actually heard of the BNP for the first time or at the least like me have taken any real notice of the British National Party, as up until that point I had simply ignored them in terms of an irrelevant party in British politics, but after getting their 2 MEPs elected in 2009 they started to appear more in the media and people who normally just ignored them started to take a closer look.

Since the EU Elections we receive a constant barrage of attempts by the BNP to show some form of wide spread support around the country for their politics, which in many cases was pushed forward by the media making more of the BNP than they frankly deserve in the grand scheme of politics the BNP remains a minor party who don’t command the vote of a high number of British voters.

Looking at the BNP vote share from the European Elections in 2009 we can easily see that they still remain a minor party claiming just 6.2% of the national vote share achieving just over 943,000 votes across the UK, in real terms this is nothing special when we consider that the Green party who only had two MEPs elected did so on just over 1.3 million votes nearly 400,000 more than the BNP.

In terms of the right-wing vote competition between the BNP and UKIP then we see that the BNP were frankly hammered in real terms UKIP have 13 MEPs elected which in the reality of politics make them a far more powerful party than the BNP representing Britain in the European Parliment, so all the hype portrayed by the BNP and allowed to sound real by the mass media in the UK actually doesn’t exist.

Two MEPs and 50 councillors doesn’t a powerful party make in British Politics, when we consider all the extra media attention poured onto the BNP since the EU Elections the public have the impression that the BNP is a far more powerful party attracting a far bigger share of the vote than they are really are gaining.

But thankfully the British voting public are not taking all the hype to heart and are seeing that the BNP are in fact still a minor party and are not gaining the vote share that certain elements are maintaining they are.

So far in 2010 the British National Party (BNP) have taken part in 8 council elections around the country some of which have been in what the BNP would call their core target voter the white working class vote, but when we take a closer look at the actual results we can clearly see that the BNP are not making any major in roads in local politics around Britain.

The reality is that the BNP haven’t gained any new seats since their 2 MEPs in the 2009 EU Elections the fact is they have actually lost two of their councils seats one in a by-election and one when a high profile BNP Councillor Alby Walker left the BNP and decided to stand against the BNP in the 2010 General Election in the Stoke Central seat.

Lets look at the 8 council by-elections the BNP have stood in so far in 2010 and see just how low their vote has been in real terms.

South Tyneside, Primrose = 566 (vote share dropped from 2008)
Birstall Watermead = 288 (1st attempt)
Liverpool, Fazakerley = 234 (vote share dropped from 2008)
Telford & Wrekin, The Nedge = 103 (1st attempt)
Hucknall Central, Ashfield DC = 131 (1st attempt)
Chichester, Plaistow = 89 (1st attempt)
London Colney Parish Council North West ward = 61 (1st attempt)
Wakefield = 353 (vote share dropped from 2008)

What we can clearly see from these recent results is that the BNP don’t command the vote share they claim to have gaining just 1,825 votes from 8 elections really isn’t something to write home about.

Looking at these results one would have to question where exactly is this mass support the BNP like to claim they have ? because it certainly doesn’t seem to be showing in the real poll results, what these results do show is that the BNP have a falling level of support with their previous vote share being eroded in 3 of these elections Wakefield, Fazakerley and Primrose have all lowered the vote for the BNP since 2008 with both Wakefield and Fazakerley showing an almost 50% decrease in the BNP vote since the previous election in 2008.

The BNP supporters & maybe the BNP themselves are believing their own hype but the voting public are not and they are continuing to reject the BNP at ever turn, it is widely accepted that the BNP tend to do well in elections with a low turnout and this is actually how they won many of their existing council seats on a low voter turn out.

But it now certainly seems that that initial rush of BNP council seat victories were a majority of people using their vote as a protest vote against the Government the BNP will of course always maintain their hardcore vote but from the results so far this year it is certainly becoming more and more apprent that the BNP are not growing at the rate even the media tried to predict.

The British voting public seem to have been taking notice of the anti-BNP campaign that has been growing ever stronger in the last 12 months and seems to be having an impact in the core BNP areas and voters are rejecting the BNP brand of hate politics right across the country.

As we move towards the 2010 General Election we see the British voting public taking more of an interest in the actual politics of the parties and are examining the policies rather than just putting their protest cross in the box, and now that’s happening it is showing the BNP that people don’t actually support their policies as they have enjoyed the comfort of remaining virtually unchallenged in terms of people attacking their policies in any great way since the EU Elections.

The best conclusion I can draw from this is that the British people are doing what British people do and that is to clearly reject racist politics designed to stir up hate and violence that the BNP like to put out.

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Todays South Tyneside Primrose Ward By-Election result:

Ken Stephenson – Labour 854
Pete Hodgkinson – British National Party 566
Aaron Luke – Independent 213
David Alan Rice – Independent 174
Anthony James Lanaghan – Conservative 124
Susan Heather Troupe – Liberal Democrat 100

Another great result, the BNP share of the vote has been cut back again from 681 in 2008 to 566 in 2010, still second position but facing some serious competition now from other candidates, Aaron Luke first time standing as an independent took 213 votes which is an excellent result.

This is now the 8th Council By-Election held in 2010 in which the BNP have stood where they have been kept out of winning another seat.

This result keeps the run of bad news for the BNP who maintain their record of NOT winning any further council seats since the EU Elections in 2009, it seems the surge in power the BNP like to claim have drifted somewhat and they can’t seem to make any further headway in local politics keeping their number of elected local councillors to around 50 out of over 20,000.

This result again goes to show the BNP are NOT the political power house they like to claim they are, well done to the voters of Tyneside, Primrose for keeping the BNP out in 2010.

The result tonight also bodes well for independents planning to stand in the General Election it seems that people who are somewhat put off the main parties have moved across to the independents which in my opinion isn’t such a bad thing.

This result means the British National Party (BNP) have now taken just 1,825 votes out of the eight council elections they have stood candidates in so far in 2010, not the major political force the BNP seems to think it is really.

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