LEN Heather, the organiser for the British National Party in Basildon in Essex will be hoping that the 10% swing that won a famous victory for the BNP in last month’s by-election in nearby Harold Hill will have found its along the A127 to his particular patch.
Basildon BNP are contesting all the fourteen seats up for grabs and its main priority is to build on its vote and secure as many second places it can, in preparation for the next round of local elections. For Len and his team, May 2008 is all about becoming a serious challenger to the old gang parties.
The last time these 14 particular seats were contested, BNP candidates came second in just one ward, third in ten and didn’t contest the other three. In two weeks time, BNP candidates are looking to overhaul the Lib-Dems for second place in Billericay West and Burstead and the Tories in Fryerns , St Martin’s and Vange, so that by May 2nd the Party is placed to really compete in all six wards.
Of course, you fight elections to win and no doubt Len Heather and his activists have their eye on a couple of wards where they think they might just be able to cause an upset.
“If we can find the 155 votes to peg back the Tories and take second spot in Vange, who is not to say that there might be another 68 votes coming our way so that we can actually win the seat,” one campaigner told me.
BASILDON COUNCIL
Billericay East
Geoffrey McCarthy (BNP)
Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, UKIP.
May 2007: Con 1373, Lib-Dem 1095, BNP 377, Lab 259.
Billericay West
Michael Bateman (BNP)
Con, lan, Lib-Dem, UKIP.
May 2007: Con 2017, Lib-Dem 473, BNP 337, Lab 244.
Burstead
Irene Bateman (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1886, Lib-Dem 455, BNP 334, Lab 244.
Crouch
Carolyn Rossiter (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 06: Con 1258, BNP 310, Lab 240, ED 198, Lib-Dem 152.
Fryerns
Leonard Heather (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lab 1092, Con 603, BNP 595, Lib-Dem 305.
Laindon Park
David King (BNP)
Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1373, Lib-Dem 1095, BNP 377, Lab 259.
Langdon Hills
Kevin Swaby (BNP)
Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Green, UKIP.
May 2007: Con 1439, Lab 377, Lib-Dem 255, Green 228.
Lee Chapel North
Jay Slaven (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Green.
May 2007: Lab 875, Con 627, BNP 361, Lib-Dem 218, Green 134.
Nethermayne
Mark Henry (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 1451, Con 874, Lab 520.
Pitsea North West
Raymond Pearce (BNP)
Con, Lab, UKIP
May 2007: Lab 734, Con 714, BNP 362, UKIP 167, Lib-Dem 162.
Pitsea South East
Sidney Chaney (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1152, Lab 767, BNP 375, UKIP 174.
St Martin’s
Philip Howell (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lab 625, Con 346, BNP 325, Lib-Dem 161, UKIP 56.
Vange
Rodney Leveridge (BNP)
Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Green, Ind.
May 2007: Lab 704, Con 636, BNP 481.
Wickford North
Anthony Gladwin (BNP)
Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Con 1592, Ind 1021, Lab 409.
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Turnout could be very different as well overall, and for party supporters, so things could be made even easier for the party in areas like this. Good luck.
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Great news! The old-gang parties are dreading having one BNP candidate in their areas.
I have always considered Basildon as a socially liberal town and not exactly prime BNP territory. A theory I have is that one factor making an area fertile ground for nationalists is that its people are by and large socially conservative. This has nothing to do with political alignment and whether the area is politically Labour or Tory. Is my theory wrong, or is the BNP targeting wards with a more socially conservative electorate?
Hopefully you Basildon BNP activists will be hammering your best wards? Maybe target two, for intensive leafleting, and try to canvass at least one? You never know, you might pull out a shock result! Life has deteriorated in Britain since LAST May! More people are ready to Vote BNP! Besides, the BNP has one of the BEST recruiting agents ever…………..GORDON BROWN! :-)
OUR TIME IS COMING!
Dissident Congress, re your comment about Basildon being a socially liberal town and not BNP territory. I beg to differ. I often visit this area and have family and friend there. It is a typical white working class town that has been neglected by the liblabcon-trick. Many South Essex residents, or their parents, have left / been forced out of NE London. Many Basildon people work in London or visit there. They are all not blind and can see how their town may turn out, just by visiting Londonistan.
Good luck to everyone running. If the good people of Basildon want a change to this disgrace of a country, they should ALL register to vote!!
Hackneyboy, your comments puzzle me. The BNP are contesting all the 14 seats that are up for grabs on May 1st. The figures given show ‘Labour’ LAST in no fewer than 6 of these, winning only five, with the conservatives winning eight, many with huge majorities, and one Lib Dem win. It doesn’t sound solidly white working class judging by voting patterns, as ‘Dissident Congress’ may have meant. (Though it’s possible the wards which happen to be in turn for elections are geographically atypical.)
I made a spreadsheet: the BNP would need to get a chunk of the other parties’ votes. It’s a notorious temptation to plug in optimistic figures; but if the BNP got 1/3 more votes from new voters, and 1 in 8 of the others switched, the BNP would get 4 seats, almost as many as ‘Labour’ now. So — maybe obviously — it looks as though the emphasis has to be conversion from the old parties. Let’s hope it won’t be not too long a job — good luck!
One thing we know for sure: the BNP is here to stay. At last the Basildon public, like (I hope) many others in this country, will eventually have the chance to throw out the old gang and be given a real alternative choice.