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

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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.

DD;

They didn't get 10% of the vote...that was MY error..

..I am getting 50 lashes as we speak

Can imagine what she calls the Asian run convenience store

I'm glad DP is not banned. Every thread she posts about the BNP reminds me why I wouldn't vote for them whilst I still have breth in my body.

I also think Elections are good because more people wear stickers/put up posters for their chosen party and I can avoid the BNP ones. Otehrwise they lurk silently...

10% of what vote?

600k out of 30m turnout is 2% (two per cent, or thirteen seats out of 650); out of total electorate (46m, which is 30m turnout divided by the 65% this apparently represents) it is 1.3% (one point three per cent, or eight seats).

Not to mention that, as already mentioned, people vote differently under PR (no need for "protest votes") and a potentially higher turnout could easily swamp even these modest figures.

yes we must allow her to post about her vile views..........
no idea why. surely there comes a point when you have to make a stand and say no more.

DP

I thought you were going? Don't let us keep you, surely you've got shop windows to throw stones through?

Miflaw;

10% of the overall vote, but it wasn't 10% as I have said 8000000000x

NG got almost 10% of the Barking vote, the highest ever for a BNP candidate...

90% of people said 'fuck off' to the BNP!

amen to that PP

I love that it is the barking vote

How about For Once In My Life, Stevie Wonder. One of the most joyful, life affirming songs ever , written by a blind, black man.

BNP also lost all their council seats in barking

75% of people said "fuck off" to the Liberals....now they're running the country...

I think there should be another election within 12 months.

"NG got almost 10% of the Barking vote, the highest ever for a BNP candidate..."

In other words, in what was recognised as a BNP stronghold, the BNP mustered one vote in 10.

Go, team Nick!

Have as many general elections as you like, until the BNP resort to traditional Fescist tactics of intimidating the electorate with the threat of violence or death, they will be told resolutely to fuck off every single time.

Note that Hitler's National Socialists had to resort to these tactics even in a hyperinflationary economic meltdown which makes the current "recession" look, well, a bit wimpish, really.

Probably got every Stevie Wonder song on my ipod..

..apart from -I just called to say I love you... cos it's crap

No....oh dear. Who will pay for this election?

And don;t you think now that there will be a visible and working policy on immigration BNP will lose further votes? Afterall many people who vote BNP do so based upon the scaremongering surrounding immigration...most of those half million aren't racist, disablist or homophobes. Next election BNP will have less than 250,000 I'm going to call William Hill and find out my odds!

Probably got every Stevie Wonder song on my ipod..

Did you KNOW he was black, DP?

Have you got the one called, "Nick Griffin, What A Fucking Phallus"? May have been an album track ...

Just for you DP

Slug...please..

Billy Bragg makes me physically sick...he really does...he is a wanker...sorry.

"she's a dedicated follower of facism"

He's nicer than that b*stard he was arguing with, anyway.

and i love his songs. He is very very clever.

DP...please..

Nick Griffin makes me physically sick...he really does...he is a wanker...sorry.

What, Billy Bragg- that White working class champion of British culture? Just your type, I would have thought. DP!

actually watching that song makes me want to have sex with him, a lot of it.