FOR the first time ever, the British National Party has a full slate of local election candidates in Southend-on-Sea.
Last year, the local BNP branch contested seven seats, so to be able to cover every ward this time around just goes to show how much progress has been made by the Party in this traditional White flight area of Essex.
In May 2007, BNP candidates finished second in two seats but a long way behind the victorious Tory candidates, so the target for May 1st is to reduce these Conservative majorities. On paper, at least, it seems that the seat where the BNP could be the most competitive will be St Luke’s ward where our candidate Fenton Bowley, will be looking to build on the Party’s 442 votes from last year. It’s a marginal with Labour and the Tories neck and neck 340-odd votes ahead of us.
Keith Thompson from Southend BNP reports to the website on the campaign:
“The election is going very well here with the leaflet bashing ahead of schedule. There have been two local hustings where community associations invited candidates to present their policies. Step forward two new BNP members representing the Party as candidates for the first time. They both did well and received a warm round of applause at each meeting.
“We even had a vicar and his wife out leafleting for us last week and they, along with all of our hardworking activists, received a good reception as we made our rounds. The local newspapers are mostly reasonable except for The Echo which has always been biased against us.
“One good spin-off from the election effort is that although we initially intended to campaign in four wards - as that is as much as we were able to manage in Southend - our candidates in the other wards have come forward wanting to put out their own leaflets. To be able to do this they have enrolled the help of families and friends. As polling day gets ever closer, the excitement generated by the election grows and although some of our candidates have never been involved any active political campaigning before, they are now working hard to try and secure a respectable vote.
“Whatever the results, the British National Party in Southend-on-Sea is going to come out of these local elections much stronger than it went into them.”
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
Belfairs
Garry Curtis-Wiggins (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Con 1240, Ind 822, Lib-Dem 361, Lab 189.
Blenheim Park
Barry Harvey (BNP)
Opponents: Lib-Dem, Lab, Con.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 982, Con 745, BNP 284, Lab 257, UKIP 162.
Chalkwell
James Haggar (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Green.
May 2007: Con 1179, Lib-Dem 357, Lab 254, UKIP 217, Green 162.
Eastwood Park
Helen Darcy (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1425, Lib-Dem 521, Lab 303.
Kursaal
Roger Gander (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lab 715, Con 538, BNP 276, Lib-Dem 265.
Leigh
Geoffrey Stringer (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 1414, Con 649, Lab 158.
Milton
Derek King (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 837, Lan 528, Lib-Dem 187, Ind 134, Green 125.
Prittlewell
David Armstrong (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, UKIP.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 1056, Con 960, UKIP 288, Lab 233.
Shoeburyness
John Moss (BNP)
Opponents: Ind, Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 788, ind 658, Lab 481, BNP 315, Lib-Dem 107.
Southchurch
Raymond Weaver (BNP)
Oppponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Con 1280, BNP 367, Lab 302, Lib-Dem 261, Green 148.
St Laurence
Keith Barrett (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 1046, Con 900, Lab 288, Green 150.
St Luke’s
Fenton Bowley (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Green, UKIP, Ind.
May 2007: Con 784, Lab 767, BNP 442, Lib-Dem 222, Green 150.
Thorpe
David Webster (BNP)
Oppopnents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Ind 1801, Con 1009, Lib-Dem 365, Lab 170.
Victoria
Alisdair Lewis (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem, Green.
May 2007: Lab 744, Con 442, BNP 277, Lib-Dem 252.
Westborough
James Burns (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Ind 768, Con 372, Lab 309, Lib-Dem 254.
West Leigh
Antony Winchester (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1626, Lib-Dem 755, Green 191, Lab 150.
West Shoebury
Terence Jellis (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Con 1250, BNP 373, Lab 308, Lib-Dem 251, Ind 115.
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Don’t forget the BNP party election broadcast will be screened, peak time, on BBC1 on April 21 at the BBC1 18:55.
Good luck to all the BNP candidates.
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Thanks for the reminder, BB - Ed
I note from the figures given above that nowhere has a BNP candidate come in last and the party has come in ahead of Labour, UKIP, Lib-Dem, Green and Independent in various wards. So why is BNP, as a legitimate, legal and successful political party, denied air time and subjected to continuous vilification and abuse?
If only voters from the least representative parties would take the bull by the horns and make that leap of faith into the welcoming arms of the only party with the will and determination to do something about their woes.
Why, indeed! The Mainstream Media (MSM) and their political/Big Business paymasters are terrified of us, that’s why! We are the only party telling the truth, folks, and it scares the hell out of them. They will continue to give us the absolute minimum coverage that they deem appropriate, which, of course, is nowhere near proportional to the level of public support and interest–there’s democracy for you–NOT!-Ed
Great news!. This is an area where the BNP should do very well as it is a white flight area. However it is also an area that should sound alarm bells for the future.
The original indigenous occupants of the East End saw their area swamped by immigrants and moved further eastwards to places like Barking and Dagenham to escape them. Those people and their children are now seeing Barking and Dagenham being swamped by immigrants and are moving even further eastwards to places like Southend to escape them once again.
However they cannot go any further east if the same thing happens as east of Southend is the sea!. This truly is the point where a line has to be drawn in the sand and the indigenous people have to say enough is enough. Having been to Southend recently there are already signs that immigrants are beginning to move in so there is no time to waste.
There is only one party that speaks up for the indigenous majority. The Lib/Lab/Con alliance are working towards “culturally enriching” all areas of the country. What happens when there are no white areas left for the whites to flee to?.
If only it were possible to wave a magic wand and all Tory voters were suddenly made aware that there is no difference between the Lib/Lab/Con axis of evil. Alas it isn’t. Best of British luck to all candidates in Southend. VOTE BNP.
The Muslims consistently state that they want to push Israel (the only true Nationalist state in the world) into the sea.
It seems that they are doing the same with our boys and girls in Southend.
Good luck BNP candidates, give the lib/lab/con trick a bloody nose.
I counted the seats as 9 Con, 2 Lab, 4 Lib dems in 2007, plus 2 Independents each with hefty majorities whom I would guess must be popular local people. It looks quite a varied borough but with a firm Tory majority (of 1). It doesn’t look typical ‘white flight’ to me, but rather containing people who through skill, luck, doing local traditional work, taking advantage of property prices, or whatever, made money and moved there, and are are predominantly conservative — the Tory majorities are huge. It looks as though only the wards where the voting is fairly evenly split give much scope for the BNP in 3 wards. If Lab lose one to BNP, the BNP might have a casting vote IF the Tories lose a seat; otherwise the Tories will remain a majority. It depends on what the voters think of “Call me Dave” and whether they believe he will change things, or agree with Maurice Oatley (above) that he would more or less equal Gordon Brown. And it depends on the personal qualities of the candidates, because when people want change they’ll go for personality rather than nominal party. And it also depends on non-voters deciding, for once, to vote. Only ten days to go…
All our Best Wishes to all in Southend from North Wales. We have already 7 seats in the bag with hopes of more. This where it was said that there would never ever be any BNP elected representatives. Our Welsh LibLabConmen have joined Plaid Cymru in the Welsh Communist Searchlight Cymru to dish out Propaganda.
Hwll Fawr Southend.