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.

DP where abouts do you live? Just want to make sure it's not near me.

Just outside London (south London)

Me too. First letter?

W

Who gives a fuck how the british nazi party fared?

This is Mumsnet dearie.

Let's save you all a few seconds typing shall we?

Yes we get YOU like the BNP and you think they are the answer to all life's little problems.

Flipping hell, it's like a broken record 'yahdeyadeyaaaa Nick Griffin, blah blah blah' FGS get a new tune DP.

You are beginning to bore everyone and we shall be forced to knit you a white triangular hat at this rate!

Thanks.................and phew!

God, please don't say Wallington.

Have been following your threads with amusement/horror/disbelief.

You really are quite mad.

More like Woolwich hopefully

Unless DP is that mad bint who was a candidate in Wallington - the one who was in the paper dressed in a burka and suspenders swigging from a bottle of wine.

Actually the BNP's other MEP, Andrew Brons, is also a bright chap, and rather avuncular too. Don't quite understand how he reconciled his day job as a pleasant lecturer teaching students of every race with NF/BNP politics, but there you go.

Daftpunk.I wanted to get the answer as to where you would get a new leader from, but I think you've gone to bed................

lol at Woolwich

wimbledon, not wallington or woolwich....

Really? Hmm still a bit too close for comfort

I think NG will be gone before the next election, The BNP could do with a new leader, there's probably a brilliant 25 yr old Oxford graduate in the background somewhere

Just join UKIP, they're the same, but minus the holocaust deniers, bedroom terrorists, and general fascists: UKIP and the BNP - What's the difference?

is he not a bit young to be the leader of a party? any party....

well, it fits with my idea of their type of candidates...

lol at bedroom terrorists

(i.e. stupid beyond belief)

That's the one MisSal

'There's probably a brilliant 25 yr old Oxford graduate in the background somewhere'

News for you - brilliant oxford graduates do have brains. As such they are unlikely to support the BNP. Unless they have a major personality disorder

But don't let that stop you waiting for the next BNP messiah. He (for he surely is male as well as white) is just coming round the corner ...

Hold your breath DP. Do.

Someguy. The BNP is not wanted by UKIP that's why they have never joined them. They have totaly different policies. UKIP has been around a mere 18 years and polled the highest amount of votes ever, some 900,000, but as far as the BNP are concerned they condemn them, in no uncertain terms.

hahahahahaha at '10 per cent' line. lolol.

you know she's only on here to wind everyone up, don't you? it's kinda her thing, she absolutely thrives on the attention.

and lololol and hahahahaha at 10 per cent once more.

bedroom terrorists is not a joke, unfortunately.

www.hopenothate.org.uk/the-real-bnp/BNP-terrorist-links.php

And that list is not exhaustive:

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/15/bnp-member-jailed-guns-bombs