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- Martin Wingfield

“BNP had good local candidates” - Labour MP

ACCORDING to Mick Temple, the Professor in Journalism & Politics at Staffordshire University and author of a biography on Tony Blair, the British National Party has made progress in Stoke-on-Trent because it listens to the people.

“The BNP, love them or loathe them, have succeeded by listening to their constituency,” he wrote in the Stoke Sentinel.

Mick Temple also revealed an incredible admission from one of the City’s Labour MPs”
“At last. It’s taken a long time, but a Labour politician has finally admitted his party has taken the people of Stoke for granted.
“It wasn’t, of course, one of Labour’s defeated councillors, who appeared to be blaming everyone but themselves (and especially Mark Meredith and Gordon Brown) for their ejection from office. It was Stoke Central MP Mark Fisher, who also praised the BNP as ‘good local candidates who’ve worked harder than Labour’.”

That news will delight Alby Walker, the leader of the BNP group on Stoke City council. The elections on May 1st saw another three BNP councillors gain seats in the city, taking the tally to nine councillors in all. No mean achievement considering Labour once dominated Stoke-on-Trent, winning all 60 seats in the mid-90s.

Melanie Baddeley won in Abbey Green making it a clean sweep of BNP councillors in that ward.

There was a huge cheer when Steve Batkin won a seat back on the council after taking Bentilee and Townsend with a 200 majority over Labour. Steve was the BNP’s candidate for Mayor of Stoke back in 2002 and a year later became the Party’s first councillor in the city winning Longton North. Last year he was beaten after a massively expensive campaign against him by Labour.

The third victor for the BNP was John Burgess who won Meir Park & Sandon with 30% of the vote.

In eight out of the nine wards contested, BNP candidates polled over 20% of the vote with Anthony Tabbinor leading the pack. He followed our elected councillors with 32.3% of the vote in Weston & Meir North, just 76 votes behind the winning Conservative candidate.

The results:

Stoke-on-Trent Council

ABBEY GREEN
Melanie Baddeley (BNP) 858
Lab 784, Con 721, Ind 244, Green 164.
BNP Percentage: 31.0%

BENTILEE & TOWNSEND
Steven Batkin (BNP) 829
Lab 620, Lib-Dem 320, Con 273, Ind 177, Ind 174.
BNP Percentage: 34.6%

Chell & Packmoor
Craig Pond (BNP) 566
Ind 912, Ind 579, Lab 416,Ind 103.
BNP Percentage: 22.0%

Fenton Ward
Samual Tunstall (BNP) 779
Ind 1150, Lab 578, Con 292, Lib-Dem 129.
BNP Percentage: 26.6%

Longton North
Pauline Smith (BNP) 844
Lab 1005, Ind 578, Con 550, Ind 292.
BNP Percentage: 25.8%

Longton South
Lynne Pond (BNP) 756
Lab 1633, Con 797, Lib-Dem 569, Ind 132.
BNP Percentage: 19.4%

MEIR PARK & SANDON
John Burgess (BNP) 979
Ind 909, Lab 570, Con 774.
BNP Percentage: 30.1%

Northwood & Birches Head
Stanley Leese (BNP) 594
Lib-Dem 624, Ind 623, Ind 500 Lab 379.

BNP Percentage: 21.8%

Tunstall
Terence Cope (BNP) 813
Ind 1143, Lab 703, Con 327, Ind 110.
BNP Percentage: 26.3%

Weston & Meir North
Anthony Tabbinor (BNP) 968
Con 1044, Lab 930, Ind 287.
BNP Percentage: 32.3%

There’s more BNP news and view on Martin Wingfield’s blog here

Discussion

40 comments for ““BNP had good local candidates” - Labour MP”

  1. Now THAT should go in the main papers - great publicity!!

    Posted by Paganpete | May 9, 2008, 9:06 am
  2. The BNP had better look out for an onslaught from now on !1 we will be attacked in every nasty and vile way these people use! That’s what this means. It means they have to work harder to discredit demonise slander lie thieve cheat steal interfere with more ballots to get these decent people out!! You will never hear how they look after every one the same and how crime reduces//You will see Brown trying to steal our thunder doing what he should have done years ago and what the BNP have been saying he will see that pandering to the racist Islamic groups hasnt worked / the people are waking up he has to lull us back to sleep En Guard my friends

    Posted by Warriorbrave | May 9, 2008, 9:07 am
  3. We need to reproduce this result over and over now. And the silencing effect similar to the Patel situation will mean we can turn the whole state of affairs around by denying a platform for them to spout their poison. A bit like the Domestos advert:
    “BNP kills all known germs dead”. (Figuratively speaking.)

    Posted by Vman | May 9, 2008, 9:13 am
  4. This is great news,
    Perhaps the media can at long last see which way the wind is blowing,
    Soon it will be a hurricane then the old guard will be messing there pants,
    Oh and more enrichment Londoners are being warned that there has been a death of a child by Diphtheria in London possibly brought in by somebody who has recently been abroad,
    The last death in Britain was in 1994 the victim then had just came from Pakistan ,oh what a suprise.

    Posted by robstew48 | May 9, 2008, 10:00 am
  5. I may be biased, but if we had a poor or bad candidate, they would still be better than most others.

    Posted by baz | May 9, 2008, 10:26 am
  6. “It was Stoke Central MP Mark Fisher, who also praised the BNP as ‘good local candidates who’ve worked harder than Labour’.”

    Well here again we have a Nulab stooge trying to con us and also likely delude himself into the bargain. Good candidates are absolutely vital, and all praise and credit to these BNP heroes and heroines! But what areas like Stoke, which have had the lifeblood literally sucked out of them industrially, are telling Fisher & Co is:

    1) We don’t want mass immigration

    2) We don’t want your enriched paradise of diversity.

    3) We don’t want your vision of globalisation (which afflicts us worse than almost any other developed country because of the power of the financial sector within a grossly unequal society)

    4) We don’t want crappy minimum wage jobs with no pensions and no prospects whilst the rich gorge themselves.

    5) We don’t want handouts from patronising, clueless Nulab politicians whom we are forced to keep in luxury.

    6) We don’t want to pay penal rates of taxation to provide non-jobs for “Diversity Outreach Co-ordinators” and poor public services, particularly the chronically bad “education” system which keeps our people down.

    7) We don’t to be ripped off by bank money-lenders and loan sharks and big business.

    8)We don’t want your murderous foreign wars which get our working class lads killed to no purpose.

    9) We don’t want the country turned into a dump where the rich barricade themselves behind fences in gated estates and there is an ever nastier dystopia outside.

    10) We don’t want to turn into a third world country, we want OUR country back. We don’t want lib-lab-con FULL STOP!

    Posted by Stringbag | May 9, 2008, 10:41 am
  7. Its a fantastic achievment by Stoke BNP,and the `old gang`,really ARE getting worried now - `Brilliant` !

    Posted by White Lion | May 9, 2008, 10:59 am
  8. As VMAN says, we need to repeat this praise from the opposition over and over again.

    John Bean

    Posted by John Bean | May 9, 2008, 11:01 am
  9. I see Lionheart is in the news again - more of those moronic protesters - they do not work I gather?

    http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-05-09-Protests-as-BNP-member-takes-seat-at-City-Hall

    Posted by Paganpete | May 9, 2008, 11:12 am
  10. Nick Griffin spoke at Burnley yesterday; one of the points he made is that where the BNP put up candidates, Labour try to put up their best candidates in turn, so the BNP opposition is often the best Labour and Con/Lib can manage. Competition does have its uses.

    I’d have liked to inlcude a sort of review of the Burnley event, but it doesn’t really fit here.

    Posted by RW | May 9, 2008, 11:35 am
  11. The Quiet Revolution
    The BNPs good percentage of the votes that go unreported.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeeUTiXSN4

    Posted by bertie bert | May 9, 2008, 11:39 am
  12. I wonder how many of the new workers party shown in the post supplied by Paganpete, actually work or indeed have a job.
    The’re pathetic laughable robots.To them A job is a four letter word. How many braincells in an average uaf mob. This is this weeks quiz.

    Posted by baz | May 9, 2008, 11:39 am
  13. Well flipping ‘eck!

    On the BBC too!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7392305.stm

    -

    Thanks for that, Pete.
    Waes Hael! - Ed

    Posted by Paganpete | May 9, 2008, 12:15 pm
  14. You tell it how it is Stringbag, ever thought of standing as a candidate?

    Posted by Godblessenoch | May 9, 2008, 12:19 pm
  15. These Protestors are simply Useful Idiots, Fodder for the Global Elite.
    Communism was never about redistribution, it is about Dominance over the Little People, the Promotion of Radical Feminism, Homosexuality, minority groups are simply a means to divide and conquer orderd western Societies.

    Here is Rockefeller admiting as such to Hollywood Film Producer Aaron Russo.
    http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm

    How many Families have these People Destroyed.
    http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Feminism/gloria_steinem-feminism.htm

    Here is Rockefeller yet again plotting in the Soviet Union to unite Europe under Communism.

    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

    Their Preferred method of Subverting our Ordered Western Societies,

    Frankfurt Subversion.

    http://eutruth.org.uk/subversion.htm

    Posted by royalecraig | May 9, 2008, 12:31 pm
  16. More Useful Idiots who will be cast aside Once Global Communism is achieved, they are setting up a new Feudal System, with the Establishment Elite at the Top and us at the Bottom, Squabbling against each other for scraps.

    Communism/Rothschilds deceipt

    http://www.savethemales.ca/000275.html
    Gays and Feminists will be sorry
    http://www.savethemales.ca/000280.html
    http://rense.com/general81/blight.htm

    Read the BNP Manifesto, the BNP does not mind what People do in the Privacy of their own homes, but…..Minority groups are simply a tool to cause Division in our Once Ordered Society, Useful Idiots, What for example to homosexuals think will happen to them if Islam becomes Dominant.

    Will the Global Elite care if they are all ‘Pushed off a mountain’, why should they, they are and will be Protected behind rings of Steel, most likely living it up in EUropean Mansions.

    Don’t be a usefull idiot, think for yourself, look around you, Trust your Instincts.

    Posted by royalecraig | May 9, 2008, 12:42 pm
  17. A meeting set up to discuss violent extremism in Stoke-on-Trent had to be cancelled after a government advisor refused to meet a BNP councillor.
    Lord Kamlesh Patel was in the city as part of a nationwide tour to discuss the subject.
    “I make no apology for refusing to meet with the BNP during my visit to Stoke.
    “I do not believe that any party with extremist views has anything constructive to contribute to this agenda.”

    So lets sum up. what he’s basically saying is we will have a meeting to see what can be done about extreemisim, and then accuses the Democratically Elected BNP councillors of being extremists.
    He should have had the meeting , then he could have pointed out all of the BNPs really beastly extremist policies, and after we all have a laugh when he cannot find anything extreme or racist in their policies or on this website we could then set about telling him about democracy, and how the majority have been taken for a ride without any say or any consent.

    Posted by bertie bert | May 9, 2008, 12:51 pm
  18. RE PaganPete’s link

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7392305.stm

    Whilst they still use England in the addy and not EUrogeto12. They havent asked and reported the BNP’s viewpoint.

    They’ll have to do much more to get a gold star on my wrap sheet.

    Posted by AndyK | May 9, 2008, 1:55 pm
  19. Royalecraig, I happened across extracts from Gen. Patton’s diaries, (unfortunately did not save the link) but what I read in them, was some of the most shocking, eye opening, and relevant to what you are getting at. If you can find it, is well worth a look.

    No wonder he died under mysterious circumstances.

    Posted by Godblessenoch | May 9, 2008, 2:26 pm
  20. New guide to ‘Irritating England’

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7391776.stm

    Read it and weep.

    Posted by UprightMan | May 9, 2008, 2:44 pm
  21. The BNP continues to make massive gains in Stoke and other area’s of the country. The British public are getting the message that you cannot trust the main parties to work for them. The BNP is becoming a major force politicaly in the country. The forces of what is right for the British native is gradualy getting through. As its vote base continues to get larger so will its popularity.

    Posted by rogshar | May 9, 2008, 3:07 pm
  22. I’m glad to see an admission of the BNP’s superiority over Labour by a “Professor of Journalism and Politics” (yawn), author of a biog of B Liar (yuck) and Labour MP. However and perhaps because I was taught by this type of marxist while at university, my reaction is “so what?”.
    Who cares what this person thinks or says about us?
    If he had any personal integrity he would not be a member of a party that has and continues to wreck our homeland while slurping up the gravytrain.
    I certainly do recognise the “propaganda” value in this for us, but also think his remarks are condescending. The statement is not about POLICIES but personalities — ie if only Liebour had worked harder they would have still been in power. This is nonsense, and people are now seeing through it (hence his attempt at damage limitation) as it is the policies of liblabcon over many years and decades that have and are destroying our country and people.

    Posted by PJD | May 9, 2008, 3:14 pm
  23. This ones a bit off topic i know, but ive just thought … what do you think Ed?, mind you it could backfire badly ,zzzzzzzzzzz,i know i,m bored.

    -

    Thanks for the suggestion, Pete - however, you know the answer ;-) - Ed

    Posted by pete saxon | May 9, 2008, 3:24 pm
  24. Perhaps it’s because of this perceived superiority of candidate and representative, that I have just witnessed Richard Barnbrook on the London Local telly, showing he’s been sidelined to the end of the debating table in the London Assembly. All because the other party candidates dont want to sit next to him.

    These time serving dollops, have the audacity to marginalise Richard and in so doing, put two fingers up to the 130,000 plus voters who put him there. Furthermore he personifies the total of 10% who voted BNP up and down the country. These politicians are an absolute disgrace and show by their actions that they are completely bankrupt of any honest policies.

    All those waverers out there, just consider this: Go to any other political web site and you will not find a members’ and supporters’ forum like this. That’s because they do not want your opinion to sideline their hidden agendas. Whilst on the BNP site, here you can get it off your chest. And by association, this is the reason that they try to marginalise Richard Barnbrook.

    They are running scared. Richard Barnbrook bravely said in the chamber, ‘Whether I got one vote, 130,000 votes or a million, I’m here to stay!’. So true. And he’s there because a growing number of Britons want him to be there to stay too. He represents us. So get that in your undemocratic heads, you lib/lab/cons. It’s the way of the future.

    Posted by ArtDecade | May 9, 2008, 5:45 pm
  25. On the face of it, he is one of the few politicians left that have any sense of honour, (though that’s nothing new and politicians have rarely had any honour, save Winston Churchill and the Duke of Wellington). At least he has admitted they have made mistakes (something we are all guilty of, some more than others), he has done more than those in parliament who are always ‘passing the buck’.
    -
    After reading the link to the BBC website, by Lord Patel refusing to have a meeting with the BNP on Islamic extremism. To the naked eye, it’s showing that he knows he will be beaten, and that he supports the 7/7 bombings, that is the impression I get.
    Hang on wasnt Lord Patel the MP that was bugged by MI5. MI5 dont bug people unless there is a genuine reason. Also since it was made public, the ‘data going missing’, we have heard nothing more. Which makes me wonder if he is a double agent, working with Al-Quaeda. For that reason he doesnt want to speak to the BNP, as he knows that BNP will find him out.
    I think a gnat’s arse is probably more worthy of the title of Lord than that pompous, scrounging, honourless twit.

    Posted by falcons1988 | May 9, 2008, 6:00 pm
  26. I have to disagree the BNP are not good candidates, they are nothing short of EXCELLENT.
    The BNP are Britains FINEST.

    Posted by JIM GREEN | May 9, 2008, 6:26 pm
  27. “In a statement he said: “I make no apology for refusing to meet with the BNP during my visit to Stoke.”

    So says “Lord” Patel. His comments speak of a deep insecurity. He knows at heart that he is an interloper, and a government stooge, who barely belongs in our country at all - let alone to dictate to legitimately elected representatives of the indigenous population. This is why he has turned tail.

    “You tell it how it is Stringbag, ever thought of standing as a candidate?”

    Thanks for that godblessenoch, god bless him indeed!

    I would love to become more actively involved, but currently I am financially dependent upon a public sector job. I guess very many people are in the same position, it is what old gang power perches upon. This is why I admire and salute the brave patriots of the BNP so much, they really do put their heads over the parapet. I was posting as “neversurrender” but I changed that because it was so presumptuous when others were going over the top, and I was contributing so little. “Stringbag” comes from the “Fairey Swordfish aircraft whose makeshift appearance often belied its military effectiveness. I am profoundly grateful that the website team team here allow me to make my, very modest at present, contribution to hitting our enemy.

    -

    Good to have you aboard, Stringbag - Ed

    Posted by Stringbag | May 9, 2008, 6:49 pm
  28. —-
    Thanks Mr. A, any misunderstanding should now be removed. - Ed.

    Posted by Mr Average | May 9, 2008, 7:08 pm
  29. I would like to congratulate the good people of Stoke, for having the sense to vote BNP, and more importantly for sticking with them.
    Congratulations to the BNP councillors of Stoke as well, they’re obviously doing a good job.
    Keep it up people, that way all BNP supporters will benefit.

    Posted by Ian Dempsey | May 9, 2008, 9:57 pm
  30. Followed up royalecraig’s link to “The Brussels Journal” and spotted an article called “Britain: Going Right Again?” by A. Millar. It had an unusually lengthy critique of the BNP and Richard Barnbrook in 5 paragraphs - critical but not overly and seemed to be taking us quite seriously for a change.

    Worth a read, I thought.

    Posted by SheriffofNottingham | May 9, 2008, 10:40 pm
  31. Lord… £££how much did you loan em Patel, (Thank God for Sir Ian, wicket keeper for criminal traitor Marxist politicians Blair).Anyway, Mr Patel won’t face the BNP councillors because all he has are excuses and lies to tell but our councillors are armed with the truth and the fight to protect our indigenous from such nonsensical weak propaganda. Same applies to the fascists in the London Assembly, who only have lies, greed, treachery and fake statistics to counter Richard Barnbrook’s truth, justice, common sense and love of the British and Britain.

    Televise the London Assembly and the other members’ childish illegal treatment of Richard Barnbrook. Let the people see what democracy has become under the liblabcon trick. Don’t forget people, if they in the Assembly can bully, shun, harass and make the working life of a work colleage unpleasant, then it must be alright for everyone else to do the same.

    I think it’s called leading by example.

    Posted by MC SE9 | May 9, 2008, 11:00 pm
  32. V is for Victory to Stoke BNP !

    Posted by cigpapers | May 9, 2008, 11:27 pm
  33. Could this admission that the BNP candidates are worthy of his respect be a sign of them “cosying up”to us as they observe the party’s inevitable march towards government? We all know what a lot of unprincipled toerags they are so I view any compliments from them with deepest suspicion. Despite the odd setback or two, these are really happy times for the BNP, and a reason for real hope for this badly betrayed country of ours.

    True Brits will never sit on their hands whilst their country is given away to allcomers. It’s going to be a long hard battle but one that MUST be fought and WON!!

    Posted by gyukcas | May 9, 2008, 11:49 pm
  34. How come this wonderful result wasn’t headline news in the daily media? Oh silly me, Charles and Camilla were having another ’spat’ and Amy Winehouse was back in/out of rehab and Tom and Katie aren’t splitting up after all. Much more important items of interest. Give me strength. My dream? Banner headlines that read ‘BNP WIN U.K. GENERAL ELECTION BY A LANDSLIDE’. Happy day indeed.

    Posted by Ex-pat loyalist | May 10, 2008, 12:41 am
  35. Great result Stoke, the common sense pro-british revolution has begun. Pity there wasn’t a BNP Candidate where I live but the momentum is growing.

    The overgrown students who have infested the lib/lab/con establishment - the cannabis loving softies who spend taxpayers money on trendy causes have had their day. Their social experiment which started in the sixties has been an absolute disaster. All it’s been is a 40 year “happy hour” for low life, criminals and foreigners.

    I want my country back and only the BNP will do that.

    Brown/Clegg/Cameron - you’re fired, along with all your hangers on.

    Posted by RickTB | May 10, 2008, 9:28 am
  36. Some commmentators are getting it and about time.

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/blog/2008/05/10/bnp-cannot-be-ignored

    Posted by Erinmore | May 10, 2008, 10:58 pm
  37. A letter in the Telegraph today:

    “….
    I am a life-long Conservative, but was dismayed to read that Richard Barnbrook, of the British National Party, is to be “shunned” by the rest of the London Assembly (News, May 4). This country prides itself on being the champion and cradle of democracy, yet we seem to be unable to practise this ourselves.

    A J M Blumer, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    Well said, AJM Blumer - Ed

    Posted by Lickyalips | May 10, 2008, 11:43 pm
  38. Again, it takes BNP officials to exercise political integrity AND honour because NuLabour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats are certainly no longer capable of it and it’s equally arguable as to whether they ever really have in the past either.

    http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/39Waste-of-cash39-snub-to.4068857.jp

    Posted by Erinmore | May 12, 2008, 11:18 am
  39. It seems to me that if a Labour MP praises the BNP he obviously knows they want the best for this country!

    GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

    Posted by SimonGB | May 12, 2008, 12:40 pm
  40. An article by Martin Wingfield, the Editor of the British National Party’s newspaper, Freedom -

    http://martinwingfield.blogspot.com/2008/05/bully-boy-tactics-exposes-true-face-of.html

    Our enemies are becoming increasingly desperate, increasingly marginalised.

    Posted by Dylan | May 12, 2008, 12:44 pm

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