It’s all settled down, we’ve all caught up on a bit of lost sleep after the mad rush of Thursday and Friday, the final results have all but been announced and the political landscape of the United Kingdom has changed in a number of ways. Negotiations are going on to try and form the first coalition government since the 70′s.

But the best news to come out of the 2010 General Election is the voters of Great Britain have sent an extremely clear and loud message to the British National Party (BNP), and that message could be stated in any clearer words than those used by Margaret Hodge during her speech at the Barking count in the very early hours of Friday morning.

“Get Out and Stay Out”

“Pack Your Bags and Go”

All across the United Kingdom this message was repeated time after time, with every result that came through where the BNP had stood there were clear and loud messages being sent, with the BNP polling well under 10% of the popular vote in over 95% of the seats they stood candidates, the loss of 263 of the 338 deposits because they polled under the 5% of the popular vote required, this in financial terms cost the BNP £131,500, a cost the already suffering party can ill afford, the overall result being a destructed party on the political map of the United Kingdom.

The BNP were resoundingly kicked out of Barking and Dagenham council failing to make any new gains and most importantly failing to retain any of the 12 seats they had already held since 2006, a clear and loud message was sent to the BNP by the voters of Barking and Dagenham “Get Out and Stay Out“.

The story continued across the country with elected BNP councillors dropping like flies, from the numbers available so far the British National Party only have 12 elected councillors remaining and that is down to the fact that 11 of them were not up for re-election this time around, only one councillor managed to get himself re-elected.

From the euphoria of the European Elections where the BNP made it’s biggest political gains polling just over 943,000 votes, having over 100 elected councillors and two MEPs, to the reality of 2010 after people have been given the chance to examine the BNP close up, they have taken that opportunity to see their record in elected positions, to see what the face of the BNP is in the media, had the chance to see how the BNP members/supporters and elected officials behave in public, the British voting public sent a resounding and clear message to the BNP.

The BNP and it’s leader Nick Griffin has been trying to claim the 2010 round of elections as some sort of victory for the BNP claiming the vote share rise from a little over 192,000 in the 2005 General Election to 563,743 they received in 2010 as an enormous leap forward for the party, but the reality is this, it really isn’t such an enormous leap forward when we consider the numbers, in 2005 the BNP stood 119 candidates in the General Election, this time they stood 338 candidates so it really isn’t a leap forward in the grand scheme of things.

But then again Nick Griffin really does at this point need something to hold onto, something to spin to take to the membership so that he can try to cling on to his position inside the party that is openly falling apart as was clearly demonstrated at the Barking and Dagenham count with Richard Barnbrook and Eddie Butler being openly heard talking about ways to oust Griffin from the leadership of the BNP as they left the count on Friday.

The dismay and decent is openly there for all to see, the online forums normally steadfast and loyal to Nick Griffin are voicing the concerns and in many quarters demanding his removal. The recent very public internal battles also clearly show the BNP are in a serious state of internal collapse, with the recent and very public publicity of the former BNP publicity officer having allegedly made death threats towards Nick Griffin and the BNP fund raiser Jim Dowson.

This was followed up just this week with the head of the BNP’s online propaganda machine Simon Bennett who turned off the BNP’s website just days before the General Election and also made a very clear and open sets of statements of internal dealings regarding the parties money dealings alongside admitting the BNP used the Marmite trademark on purpose in some daft attempt at attracting publicity right before the elections.

Where are we today? the answer to that very simple question is also very simple, the BNP are in a state of disarray and have been decimated at the polls, the British voting public has given the BNP it’s chance, and have clearly decided it doesn’t want them based on what they have seen. All the power the BNP held is all but gone.

As things stand at the time of writing this with the information available all the BNP have left in terms of representation on the political scene is 2 MEP’s and 12 councillors, effectively pushing the BNP back to the outer fringes of the politics scene in the United Kingdom.

I will leave the final words on this subject to Margaret Hodge from her speech after the Barking count.

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.”

I was not surprised at the racial slur by the BNP’s Simon Darby towards Conservative candidate Norsheen Bhatti.

Having been part of the BNP for several years I can speak from an informed point of view of this insidious organisation.

The BNP does have a hidden agenda.

However much it tries to convince you it has changed its policy on compulsory repatriation or on racial purity it is nothing more than deceit.

If the party ever gets a sniff of any real power it will be too late to stop it and the true face of the BNP will emerge.

It would implement a form of apartheid, start a programme of compulsory repatriation and turn Britain into the leper of the world with sanctions imposed upon it leading to shortages of food, fuel and life-saving medicines.

As Norsheen Bhatti said: “There is nothing British about the BNP”.

The reply by Mr Darby: “I’m more British than you.” Just how much more British does Mr Darby consider himself than Ms Bhatti, or compared to sportsmen who have attained the title of British world champion, such as Lewis Hamilton, David Haye, Chris Eubanks and more.

I apologise for any part I played in promoting the BNP and if people choose not to elect me because I have left this odious bunch of racists I will accept this willingly as I would rather not be an elected politician than be a BNP elected politician.

COUNCILLOR ALBY WALKER

Independent Parliamentary candidate for Stoke Central

Vote No To The BNP in 2010

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