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.

"The last thing I want to do is hurt or upset anyone on MN"

Well you do and anyway I don't believe you. You love it. How can you possibly post about disabled children and your "concerns" in the pseudo innocent way that you do and then bleat "I don't want to hurt anyone".

Here it is in black and white DP, disabled childen = untouchable. People KNOW what you are doing when you post like that, pretending to have concerns while really sticking the knife in. Imvho its weird and I don't understand how any normal, empathetic person could do that, which says it all really doesn't it.

Aitch said: "och look, don't give us yer shite, dp, you've already posted AT LENGTH as to the fact that you wouldn't want your child educated alongside a disabled child."

DP seriously said that? How on earth has she been allowed to stay a mumsnet member after that? I am speechless.

'I promise you...I will never start another thread about the BNP.'

halleluya!

and LOLOL @ 'fuckity bye' lenin

When will this poor, poor deluded woman get the help she so clearly needs?

Daftpunk, I have loathed you from afar for some time now but I am starting to reassess. You come across as a bit confused and deluded, tbh, like an old dear who's forgotten to take her tablets - not even a real person, just something out of a soap or a sitcom.

Did anyone see the BNP Wives documentary? There was the born fascist; the nice but dim trophy wife; and then the woman who'd been unlucky in love, wrote the poetry to prove it and had sort of turned to BNP to fill the gap.

I think Daftpunk would like us all to think she is the glamorous wife; sometimes, when she's feeling brave, decides to act like the born fascist; but actually, I picture her more as the open mic poet.

go on, DP - recite us some of your best.

I like fuckity bye too. It's like the adult version of toodle pip.

Lonely, desperate and confused

MIFLAW - am a mental health nurse but wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire. She'd better enlist help from elsewhere.

"y'know..democracy and all that, it's good to get all views and opinions".

it is SO tiring to hear Fascists bleating about democracy and, in the process, misdefining it to meet their own sad ends.

Democracy has NOTHING to do with it being a good thing to get all views and opinions.

It simply means that the will of the people takes precedence over the will of the "naturally" powerful (e.g. the rich.)

As the will of the people is clearly NOT the particular brand of neo-Fascism preached by Griffin et al (approx 1% of the population, 1.3% of the electorate and scarcely 2% of the turnout) there is no "democratic" imperative to discuss it. Quite the reverse, in fact - the people have spoken and the message is very clearly, "shut the fuck up!"

I feel a bit sick reading these threads.

daftpunk, I can only say that if it were you...

... that had a disabled child and had to fight daily for her/him to be treated with respect...

...that came from a country where you were consistently threatened with violence or death...

...had travelled and risked yourself and your children to get to a safehouse, only to be targeted and hated by thick, threatning men...

Maybe, just maybe, you would have a shred of compassion.

You see, in my book, if someone needs help, I give the help. I am on a tiny income, but I don't mind that my taxes go to house, clothe and feed people who haven't had the priveliged life I have. I do hope that, God forbid, if I, or my children, or my children's children ever need help, someone will offer it.

You are being inhumanly cruel.

It must be a great comfort to know there are 563,743 other stupid, ignorant, bile-filled bigots out there.

or was that a typo too?

You have just reminded me what I said in the post that was deleted the other day...I think it was that she was 'ugly minded'.

I'm not sure if that comes under personal attack more than the other wild insults being flung on this thread, but I stand by it...you couldn't write these things without having an ugly mind.

I daresay it isn't her fault she is that way. It's just such a shame that she can't see it. I find with a lot of people who lean on the BNP and such that their motivation is fear, hurt and anxiety. I don't know where it comes from, but that is no way to live your life. I wish some of them could break free of it.

ellie;

will you stop posting on this thread, it's coming back into active convos and putting me off..

...I'm trying to think of 3 songs I can't live without....

Oh get a grip DP

Love, life and Unity - Dreadzone
Back in Black - Any Winehouse
One Love - Bob Marley
Loser - Beck

Her naivety is astounding. Really, I think she actually believes the BNP could be revbranded in the style of New Labour and all will be some 1950's utopia with cricket on the village green, old maids cycling home from evensong as yhe sun sets over the (all White) village, bobbies on yhe beat giving kids a clip round yhe ear fir being cheeky, blah de blah.

And I bet it's Welling

What?! You started the thread, daftpunk, so you get to say who posts on it?!
Just because you don't want to post anymore doesn't mean the rest of us can't express our opinion- You knew this was going to be an inflammatory thread...

Drop Dead - Siouxie and the Banshees.

"If you took the Liberals and the BNP and did some calculations on how they performed, taking everything into account, the BNP probably did better..." hmmmm, based in what stats????

daftpunk - you are an ignorant asshole, the only good thing about keeping this active is to show just that. You obviously have a high embarrasment threshold a well as a compromised moral compass. You are by your own definition and ignorant bigot.

I Hate You (so Much Right Now) - Kelis

It's Ok for me to post if I post suggested song titles, is it DP....?

What about Paranoid..Black Sabbath..

Fan.tas.tic

In Daftpunks vision, Parliament will be replaced by seven Vikings standing round a shield on the floor.

As for songs, I don't know what to suggest. I have a very clear image of Daftpunk sitting in a dilapidated armchair, swigging Special Brew from the can with Lambrini chasers, while "Three Lions" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Run With The Ball)" play in a non-stop back-to-back loop on a doctored iPod Shuffle through a £10 pair of speakers on the sideboard.

"They got 10% of the vote. ..... under proportional representation those votes would result in seats."

Not true - people vote differently under PR, and there is usually a minimum % to be achieved before you get list seats

drinking out of a union jack pint tankard

do you think she says things like ''oy oy Abdul! You don't me calling you abdul, eh?'' to the staff in Indian restaurants?