It’s not just Henley on Thursday
THE Henley parliamentary by-election is not the only election involving the British National Party that is taking place on Thursday. We also have candidates standing for local council in Blackpool and Hatfield.
Les Joy is the BNP representative in Park Ward for Blackpool Council. He fought the seat for us in May 2007 when he polled 339 votes which was a very respectable 17.2% of the total vote for the Party. Les will be hoping to improve on that vote share but faces a difficult task as the Labour-held ward is a marginal and the Tories have treated the campaign with the importance of a national contest and bussed in party workers to support their candidate, local postmaster Peter Collins.
Les Joy lives in Park Ward and has launched the Friends of Boundary Park Group which is pressing for the necessary funds to improve amenities. He pledges in his election address to work with police to tackle vandalism and drug abuse in the park.
The Labour candidate is the ex-council leader Roy Fisher, who said in the run-up to the May 2007 elections that “the BNP are not welcome in Blackpool.”
It then turned out that Roy promptly lost his seat, lost his position as leader of the Labour group on the council and lost the leadership of the council. As Les Joy told the election website Votewise:
“Now who do you really think isn’t wanted in Blackpool!”
Political pundits are predicting a big swing to the Tories and a convincing win, while the BNP will be seeking to build on the result of 14 months ago and to close the gap on Labour.
Blackpool
Park Ward
Susan Close (Lib-Dem)
Peter Collins (Con)
Roy Fisher (Lab)
Les Joy (BNP)
Colin Porter (UKIP)
May 2007: Lab 661, 631, Con 536, 517, BNP 339, Lib-Dem 276, UKIP 166.
The other election is for the Hatfield Central Ward of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. The BNP candidate is Mark Fuller and he faces a very difficult task to make an impact in what is a keenly fought Conservative and Liberal Democrat marginal. Rather like the contest in Henley, Labour here are decided also-rans and the target of the hard-working British National Party campaign team is to try to push them into fourth place.
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
Hatfield Central ward
Timothy Butler (Ind)
Maureen Cook (Lab)
Mark Fuller (BNP)
Hazel Laming (Lib-Dem)
Stan Laver-Walton (Con)
May 2008: Con 1385, 1370, 1221, Lib-Dem 1338, 1283, 1278, Lab 167, 159.
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So Henley is about pushing Labour into fourth place. I think you need to re-write that sentence. How defeatist is that? You enter every contest to win! The mind-set of the voters has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. The BNP have every chance to win.
Good Luck, Les and Mark–we’ll be thinking of you!
I agree with Brysea, we are going out not to come second or third or push that tramp of a party called Nu Labour into fourth place. We are going out to win, people of the middle classes are coming over to us in droves because they see now voting Tory is voting a Nu Labour clone in again.
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Trouble is, that would suit some of them just fine, thank you. - Ed.
I just listened to Nick & Simon’s pod cast on Simon’s Blog.
What a great idea to have a “test run” in Henley to iron out any bugs in the electoral system pending our future successes.
Regarding the audio clip, I couldn’t help thinking “this guy makes complete sense” to every word Nick spoke.
We are also currently in the middle of a by-election here in Wigan. Polling is on July 10th.
UKIP have thrown a spanner in the works by entering a candidate in this ward. They have never done this before, so it’s throwing our estimates out. The UKIP candidate was the Conservative candidate here in 2007. He is a popular and very capable individual (let’s be fair in our assessments) and may take some votes from us. But he is likely to take many more from the Conservative candidate and this should work to our advantage.
Wigan, however, is one of those towns where in many wards, historically, if you put a monkey on a stick with a Labour ticket attached, it would get elected. This, as we are discovering on the street and the doorsteps, is changing. This town is ripe for what happened, and is happening, in Stoke. In Wigan we are gradually increasing our average vote per candidate at every election.
We persevere.
Christopher John Hilton – British National Party
Trevor Beswick – Liberal-Democrats
Sandy Franzen – Community Action Party
Keith Jones – United Kingdom Independence Party
Jonathon Cartwright – Conservative Party
Stephen Dawber – Labour Party
(BNP agent - Henry Morgan)
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Thank you for that, Sir Henry . - Ed.
Another vote for Brysea. We must enter to win. We can be realistic afterwards.
Well said, Brysea! Henley can’t be totally full of Cameron toffs, there must be some normal people living there. The way the wind is blowing, there’s nowhere we can’t fight to WIN. Yes, I admit it would be surprising, but it wouldn’t be THAT surprising and it certainly ain’t mission impossible with Mr.Rait as our candidate!
The Blackpool poll looks particularly appetising as we are off from a strong base. Welwyn can put in a good show. Good luck to all concerned anyway!
@Sir henry Morgan: It used to be said that in South Wales a donkey as a Labour candidate would win.
Today in the Valleys after the recent council elections Labour have lost control of councils. Do not be despondent Now is Now. Aim to win.
Good luck everyone on Thursday, Tim Rait, Les Joy, Mark Fuller and especially Great Britain. I know we have to be realistic with the undemocratic forces reined against us but I think faith really can move mountains. Or put it another way, it is like the numerous cases where someone has found super-human strength to lift an enormous dead weight that is trapping a loved one - science can’t explain it. Or what about where an animal that is trapped by its leg will gnaw it off rather than die?
Perhaps the loved one in the first case is our threatened Country and the British National Party acquires the (un)believable win in Henley - and resulting strength - to save Britain. Or what about the trapped animal being the good people of Henley - representing Britain’s fight for survival - gnawing off the leg of corrupt mainstream politics?
I honestly believe we can win in Henley, Blackpool and Hatfield. It’s the only way to fight a war.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8yfwv_66Q&feature=email
Well, White Rose, when you think about it, subsidence on the polders must be worse than, say, in granite-founded Edinburgh or the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Hey, perhaps we can use that argument against the eco-towns - a lot of them are to be built on flood-plains.
It used to be said in Barking & Dagenham that a monkey with a red rosette would win any seat but not any more! There are many of the old Labour gang crying in their beer on bingo night at the Labour Club, now that the BNP have put a spike in their once safe, cosy little hideaway.
Well done BNP, well done!
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Gracious thanks, kind sir. - Ed.
@ copperation
Well, that’ll be another embalmed corpse staggering about, then. ‘Bout time he got back in the tomb with all them other vampires afraid of the sun. He’s got one thing right, though - danger and New Labour. Wot a zombie!
A result in Henley between 5 and 8% would be VERY good. Yes, go in to win - but also be realistic in expectations.
Well said, Brysea and others with reference to “spirit” in the attitude toward elections. It is foolish to display a Polyanna-type optimism in thinking we will sweep the board everywhere. But what is perhaps misguidedly called “realism”, and which shades into unwarranted pessimism is even more damaging. If I were an “uncommitted” voter and felt that the BNP’s self-assesment was that there might just be the chance, with all the stops pulled out and the wind in the right quarter, that we could maybe come as high as 3rd place there is a strong chance I would not vote BNP. That’s putting it mildly.
With the opinion polls and other evidence of a continuing rise in support for our policies, I am surprised to read what is no doubt meant as prudent caution, but feel it is misplaced, and even inaccurate. The groaning, lying and thieving old Left traitors are crumbling, and the BNP is very well placed to take power. I believe this to be realism.
As Deputy SE Region Organiser, and having been on the campaign trail for well nigh on 3 weeks with the RO here in Henley, plus a 20 hour day this Thurs 26th still to come, we estimate a 5% return as just about possible.
Whilst I am pleased to see so many optimistic comments re our push, it must be clearly understood that we are coming from nowhere in Henley, the first time out, and any votes at all are a major first step here.
The SE team has worked hard and we are immensely grateful to all those who offered assistance, both financially, and in turning up on the big push days. That said, the optimism mentioned by many may well be based on the assumption that we have a similar Constituency to Wigan etc. In fact the Tories took nearly 20,000 votes in 2005, with Labour on 6,000 max, so there isn’t quite the voter base the Party has usually done well on elsewhere and so this is a real litmus test for us here, and on this much will help to shape our future plans south of the Thames.
Once again many thanks to all those who have helped us, we literally could not have done it without you, and we shall let all those in the early hours of the morning of the 27th know the result, so watch this space.:-)
Good luck BNP candidates, as someone else has said, the mindset of the electorate has indeed changed over the last 12 months - in our favour.
I’m sure you’ll all give it your best - don’t let the liblabcon put you off, get out there and tell it how it is. This country is crying out for change and crying out for an end to political correctness and the slippery EU brigade.
Onward and upward BNP!!
With the news of the last few days the Liblabcon Merchants had better not ignore the BNP in the forthcomming elections.
If you are happy with:-
1. Vote Rigging
2. Power Cuts
3. St Georges Day Parade Cancellations
4. EU elections behind closed doors
5. House of Lords elections
6. Uncontrolled immigration
7. Foreign Criminals not deported
8. Harbouring terrorist sympathisers
9. And the rest
Just vote for the Liblabcon Artists …
We have got to stop thinking ONLY in the real world. The people of Henley don’t (want to) live in the real world - otherwise they would all (to a man and woman) vote BNP on Thursday. Too much reality is bad for one’s health, party and country - and votes.
The people (of Henley) love a winner and will not tolerate (or vote for) a loser. That’s why the good people of Henley may just decide to vote for a winner on Thursday - Tim Rait.
Right up to that last vote being cast on Thursday, we have got to believe that we will win - not could or might - but WILL win. It’s the only way to get the last tentative cross for BNP. Any waivering Henley voter seeing a 5% prediction may just decide its not worth it. We have got to and must think 100%! Reality can wait until Friday.
Hi everyone, I have not been a member for very long, but I have been visiting the site for a while longer, and it has been amazing to me that there are still members who doubt themselves or the Party’s abilities. We have for too long been forced to believe that we as a nation are under-achievers, that because of what happened hundreds of years ago according to Miliband and his ilk, now is the time we have to pay for it. Well, b******ks to that! Now especially we have to bring to the fore our British Bulldog attitude and fight to WIN! Too much is in the balance for us not to. I suggest everyone log onto ‘The Churchill Centre’ and then onto his speeches - half of them, if words are changed, suit today’s enemies. They are more real now than they where in 1939-45. We are again at war with not only the Germans but with France and the Arabs too. So take notice of his speeches and take heart that we WILL WIN in the end. Good luck to all who are fighting the good fight, no matter where you are or who you are, because YOU hold the British Nation’s hope at your side….geoffgc
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
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Hi Geoff and welcome to the BNP website - Ed
I’m with Winston and geoffgc on this. I really do think that the traitors are in for a big shock, with a 5 per cent vote for the BNP being a considerable and, if I may say so, undesirably pessimistic underestimate.
Traitor Brown has not only practically emptied the Treasury coffers to bail out a deliberately-busted gangster-run bank rather than use that money to reduce taxes to help people paying extortionate rents and mortgage payments so they can stay in their homes but has also refused to cut the duty on vehicle fuels, resulting in food prices rising rapidly to intolerable levels.
These policies reflect Brown’s slavish compliance with his fellow Bilderbergers’ subjugation technique of price “shock-testing”. When this produces a large enough number of homeless and desperately hungry people, the population will DEMAND the traitors’ removal from power and their replacement by a patriotic
“Britain First” BNP government.
We haven’t quite got to that stage yet but there will be plenty of voters in Henley who will have been noting the unprecedented rapidity of the aforementioned price trends with increasing apprehension. They will be clear in their minds as to the seriousness of the socio-economic situation to which those price increases are quickly leading and will want to head it off by voting against the traitors who are responsible it and, hence, FOR the BNP.
We should be prepared for a percentage of the Henley vote which reflects the people’s disillusionment with the traitors and the resulting steady rise in their support for the BNP.
In case I’m wrong, I’ll get my Homburg ready for the frying pan - well I’m not going to eat it raw
am I? - but I won’t cut the (wood) chips just yet.
I am very sorry to have to say that there are a number of posters on this item who are going to be very disappointed come Friday morning. I have been leafletting at Henley on several occasions in the last couple of weeks and the Deputy Regional Officer’s assessment is spot on - and if we do achieve that 5% we should be delighted for all the reasons which he has explained, not disappointed.
I do understand why people want us to go further faster and are frustrated that more of our fellow-countrymen do not yet vote for us; but as someone who has been in the Party since it was tiny, universally reviled, and held not a single seat I can say that our progress to date has been remarkable - the revolution really is happening, but its happening steadily. English style, rather than in one sudden bound. A 5% score at Henley would be another significant step.
I have noticed over the years some party members hoping the great hope at election time, only to be bought back to earth with a resounding bang. Also I have heard from members that have been pessimists to the point of sounding like detractors. The only thing good about the latter group is that so far they have been pleased that the party has done better that they hoped
Which group is right. Well of course neither. They both give sustenance to our enemy. Every time we enter a contest we should enter to win or not enter. One day we will be winning most of the time. No-one but a fool can know the day but it could be this week. Positive thinking is the order of the day. The S E Organiser should be more possitive, 5% may be realistic to him. But next time he wants a big response from active members He may find them not so keen.We have got where we are with hard work and dedicated soldiers from all our ranks. Positive thinking and actions.
I remember the first time I voted BNP. I felt a wave of joy and hope and thoroughly felt cleansed by putting two fingers up to the One-Party-With-Three-Names. Try it, folks. It’s therapeutic.
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Was it counted, though? -Ed
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geoffgc: You’re probably the winner of today’s techno-glitch star prize, a non-appearing post. It’s happened to me once or twice over the last seven months; stuff just vanishes into the ether with no explanation. Funny things, these new-fangled computers! It may be wise to make a copy when you post something important. Just a suggestion.
Thanks! Apendragon, I will take your advice. Anyway, GOOD LUCK TO ALL who are fighting the good fight. FIGHT to WIN at all times, no matter what. If we have defeats it will only make us stronger.
In the first-past-the-post system, in any one seat, all but one party will lose. It goes with the territory.
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In 2005, Labour only got 35% of the vote and yet won. I’m afraid part of political work is rather thankless. But as baz says, positive feels better.
I agree with Brysea.
I also believe that all BNP election leaflets under the BNP heading should have “The Fastest Growing Political Party in Britain”.