Griffin wins BNP leadership election; just 2,305 votes cast

It's been largely ignored by the media but the BNP have had a leadership election and Nick Griffin has today been declared the winner by a margin of just 9 votes.

Griffin was opposed by Andrew Brons, the BNP's other MEP.

The tiny margin is interesting but the most interesting thing about the leadership election is the number of votes - only 2,305 ballot papers were returned which would suggest that the active/interested membership of the BNP is about the same as the number of people living in the same housing estate as me.

It's widely believed that the next stop for Brons is the English Democrats who have been actively recruiting BNP members lately.  Recruiting Brons will drive a great many members away from the English Democrats but both the de jure and de facto leaders of the English Democrats, Robin Tilbrook and Steve Uncles, are owed a lot of money by their party and an MEP's expenses will go some way to helping them recoup some of their losses.

BNP on the verge of bankruptcy (again)

When I wrote about the BNP's membership figures earlier I didn't realise quite how bad things were looking for them until I saw a copy of a letter that's been sent to BNP members begging for money to stave of bankruptcy.

Dear Fellow Patriot,

I am writing personally to you today to draw your attention to a grave situation we find ourselves in at present. As you know, we have all worked extremely hard for many years to gain success. Some people think that now we've broken through into the political and media big time, our troubles are over. Not so! With success comes new challenges and obstacles, and the party is now suffering acute legal and financial pressure.

Precisely because we've shown we can win, we are being forced to fight for our very existence! The anti-British Equalities Minister is running a ruthless campaign of legal persecution to destroy our party. The spiteful and venomous move by the ConDem Home office to bar me from the Queen's Garden Party once again shows all too clearly that the liberal-left Establishment will stop at nothing in their desperation to halt our progress.

The impact of these attacks on our finances is severe. We have to buy in the services of expensive legal experts just to survive as a party. Our latest response to Trevor Phillips and the PC bullies is 27 pages of razor-sharp legal argument. If there is anything like justice, it will 'rip' apart their case in court. We cannot begin to produce such material by ourselves.

An expert - especially one who will have courage to risk all by helping us against our enemies - does not come cheap. This has been so urgent that some of the money we had allocated to pay other pressing bills had to be diverted to this most urgent fight.

In short, we are cash struck. We've made good progress with the money already raised and spent on infrastructure, equipment and campaigns over the last 3 years. But our successes have unleashed the furies of hell against us. Our existence is being challenged and it's costing us dear.

Be clear on this, if you don't give, we can't fight... and if we don't fight we will be shut down and killed off... THE END! If they win, the British people - and most especially our children - would be left voiceless and at the mercy of the PC fanatics and the Islamist extremists who hate all we hold dear. It's that brutal.

We are the last bastion of the rights of our indigenous white society. If they break us, our people will be left defenceless!

In the wake of the Establishment's Palace own goal, public sympathy for our party is at an all time high. We are ready to roll out the advances we've made centrally over the last 2 years to our regions and local branches. The future really does belong to us, but only if we can keep our forces in the field.

We can't take that for granted. Our current financial situation is certainly not good. On top of the legal attacks on us, we have fought massive European and General election campaigns back-to-back in under a year. And we've had the enormous cost of modernizing our central party machine.

I know how generous everybody has been over the last year, that's why I did not want to send you a simple appeal letter. I am writing to you like this to ask you personally to help your party out of these current difficulties. Our enemies' attacks on our very existence are placing an intolerable strain on us and I need you to help me guide the party through this difficult period. We need to raise £150,000 to keep the wolves at bay and to ensure our survival.

I know you love our country and your commitment to our cause is beyond reproach and that's why I am asking you in earnest to give as generously as you can right now to keep the party machine rolling on in defence of our constitution, our true nationalist principles and our right to exist.

Over the last year we have built a political powerbase that has astounded the Establishment and as you know, it has worked and will keep working! Through top-flight campaigning and administration while delivering the electoral breakthroughs, what we have achieved has sent out the signal that the British National Party is a real 'threat' to the status quo. That's why we are now under such serious attack.

Today we stand at the crossroads of history. Do we pull together and go on to launch a really effective challenge to win seats in next year's Welsh and Scottish parliamentary elections, or do we scale back our operation and go back to being a 'fringe party'? Only you and how you respond to this letter can decide the future direction and survival of our party.

By digging deeper than ever before you will be making a statement that you are with me on our journey to even greater success to winning in the big PR elections next year and then onto Westminster.

As I said on TV on the day I was barred from the Palace, we are David to the establishment's thuggish Goliath. But right now, were out of the slingshots we need to keep fighting - in blunt terms, hard cash! I will never let you down, you have my solemn word on this, and right now I really need your help to get us out of this dangerous situation. Remember, your donation is the weapon our enemies fear the most....Please use it:

Yours sincerely,

Nick Griffin, MEP
Leader, British National Party

Aw, diddums, the big nasty establishment is picking on the BNP.  Well join the club, the British and EU governments have been trying to put UKIP out of business for years.  We're still here though and going from strength to strenght.  I guess that's one of the advantages of not being far left extremists - people aren't ashamed to be associated with UKIP.

And as if their impending bankruptcy wasn't bad enough, they've also lost their sole representative on the London Assembly, Richard Barnbrook, who resigned the BNP whip yesterday.

Every political party has the right to exist, even scum like the BNP.  But success comes at a price and if they can't afford to pay their bills then they'll have to cut their losses and shut up shop.  The British establishment isn't putting the BNP out of business, their own incompetence is.

BNP membership figures

Nick Griffin has survived a vote of confidence as leader of the BNP.  This isn't the first time he's faced a challenge and it won't be the last but that's not the interesting thing about the story - it's the numbers involved.

Only 29% of the BNP membership bothered voting and Griffin got 995 votes.  His closest competitor got 214 votes which was just over 5% of the vote.  That means the BNP's membership stands at around 14,000, although the actual number of members is impossible to tell because the BNP offer family membership and include spouses and children in their membership numbers.

UKIP currently membership stands at over 17,000 and is rising.  Lib Dem membership was just 64,000 before the election and they have been hemorrhaging members since Nick Cleggover jumped into bed with Cast Iron Dave.

Nick Griffin caught lying again

The Bigoted Nazi Party has claimed that UKIP are responsible for allowing a piece of legislation to pass by only 5 votes in the EU pretendy parliament resulting in more taxpayers money being spent after UKIP MEPs walked out before the vote took place.

It's true that UKIP MEPs left the pretendy parliament before the vote took place and true that if UKIP MEPs had stayed to vote and voted against it that it would have failed but it is not a piece of legislation, nor will it cost the taxpayer anything.

The vote was on an "own initiative" report which has isn't a piece of legislation, doesn't change any law, won't be implemented and won't cost the taxpayer a penny.  The only effect of walking out before the vote took place is that the pretendy parliament was reminded of what a useless charade it is and Nikki Griffin looked is exposed (once again) as a liar.

Nick Griffin to represent EU in Copenhagen

The sad news that the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution comes into force today, ending the 1,082 year history of England as an independent, unified state is made slightly more palatable by the news that the Peoples Republic of the EU will be represented at the Copenhagen Global Socialist Government Climate Change Summit by Nick Griffin.

Not only is Nick Griffin a man-made climate change sceptic but he's also a bumbling, racist embarrassment and the European Empire's first major summit as a country in its own right will see a nationalist socialist representing it.  You couldn't make it up.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Green Party said:

He is one of a number of members of the European Parliament who will go on a delegation.  He won't get the right to speak. The Parliament sadly doesn't even get the right to really influence the decisions at al.

What good EUropeans the Green Party are.  As the leader of a pro-EU party, you'd have thought that Caroline Lucas would have realised that the Peoples Republic of the European Empire now has complete, unvetoed control over climate change policy for all member states.