The dust has almost settled. My assessment of how the BNP performed.

[daftpunk]

Ok, they didn't make the political breakthrough I'd hoped for, but if you look at the results they are actually very encouraging.

The BNP got 563,743 votes (dispite only fighting half of all the available 650 seats)

They got 10% of the vote. That is pretty amazing for a small party, and under proportional representation those votes would result in seats.

NC will merge with someone (eventually?) and as one of his main aims is to push through PR it's all good for the BNP.

What do these results mean for the BNP ?

The tripling of the BNP vote on May 6th has some important implications.

Firstly, where they went head to head with UKIP and the Greens they thrashed them, they overtook UKIP in 178 seats, and UKIP have far more money than the BNP, and of course UKIP and the Greens are favoured by the media.

Secondly, while all minority parties were pushed to the edge by the bigger parties, the BNP's vote not only help up, but proportionally increased when compared to their June 2009 Euro election results.

The BNP are here to stay, and although the election was a disappointment in some respests, it was a clear sign that 1000's of people up and down the country support the policies of the BNP.

And let's not forget, political pundits had all but written off the Labour party after they lost the 92'election....

They went on to win 3 elections.

Thing is SomeGuy... the BNP thrashed UKIP...

Although UKIP did really well too...I dunno, I just think people are desperate for change

DC has only been PM for 10 minutes and he's already told benefit dependant people to go fuck themselves...

Times are deffo changing..

Daftpunk. Could they not have found an educated older candidate, to replace Griffin? How can you or your party take him seriously, he's just out of nappies.

Er..?

Someguy. Who are bedroom terrorists? sounds like a fetish game, from a brothel.

BNP and UKIP policies are similar in many respects, and there are links:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1544527/Revealed-Ukip-official-gave-money-to-the-BNP.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7706857.stm
www.stephennewton.com/ukip-bnp-myths-too-quietly-exposed/

Oh now I see what you mean, some BNP guy making bombs from his bedroom, right next to an ad asking for money for a poor wretched bear, courtesy of WSPA.

SomeGuy....are you UKIP..?

dp, UKIP got 350,000 more votes than the BNP. Fact.

lol...you are UKIP..

That's good...

I am a Tory, sorry.

Someguy. How do you know that any individual from any party has not given money to the BNP
UKIP as an organisation certainly would never give monies to the BNP, individuals can and do bring their parties into disrepute. Any person found doing this is normally slung out of the party, as happens in most parties.

Same thing SomeGuy.....UKIP are just the tories on acid..

daftpunk, no they are not. they are totally different parties. do you actually understand/know ANYTHING about politics?

are you NG?

Someguy. that link to the Newton guy was a bit silly, it states that only a trickle of
Eastern Europeans have come here when in fact 600,000 Poles came.

Oh come on...half of UKIP are former tories

Ladyofthegreenkirtle. Do you really think NG would bother the toss, about putting his parties views on here. I should think he would not bother with this site, as he is not that bothered with what opinionated women say, he probably gets an ear-bashing at home, his own wife has called him "silly".

The BNP out voted UKIP in 178 seats...I'd call that a good thrashing...

complimentary, i was joking. everyone knows what the BNP's party line is regarding women

daftpunk"half of UKIP are former Tories" I have to agree with you their, I'd say more.
some of the papers are saying UKIP took some 21 seats from the Tories, I would say a lot are dissafected Tories, particularly over the EU. The Tories asked UKIP not to run against them in this election, I think it was about five candidates who were asked and most refused.

Exactly... and someone asked me if I know anything about politics ? ...jesus christ....my cat knows UKIP are mainly tories...

and the 126 where ukip did better?

How much money did your lot lose in deposits? How many council seats did you lose?

Its taken you a week to come up with a load of shite and completely wrong statistics. You are the perfect advert for the BNP, showing us all just how misinformed, misanthropic and downright moronic bnp voters are.

What wrong statistics....?

I admitted 10% was a typo...(and a massively obvious one)

it wasn't a typo, you just made an arse of it. likewise your assertion that the bnp is on the rise, which isn't really backed up by your stats. likewise your UKIP thrashing. lol.

Where are you getting your degree from, mickey mouse internet university? You have no grasp of numbers, have the political knowledge of a teenager and as for philosophy....better stick to the germans.