What was behind the BNP leadership challenge?

I have always been an admirer of Mr Nick griffin. He brought the British National Party from being a small niggle in the side of those in charge to a force that is to be reckoned with. A man who dares to speak out against the establishment and their deliberate breakdown of our society.

I have tried to keep my blog as fair as possible through the British National Party leadership challenge, but now the challenge is over and I am going to voice my opinions. I wouldn’t have bothered but I am disgusted at the way Butler and his cronies conducted themselves.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a leadership challenge but there are ways of doing these things and that way is not to use underhand tactics by telling lies and ridiculing the person(s) you are challenging.

Famous words spring to mind... ‘Keep saying it often enough and people will believe you’.
I believe Lenin said that in true communist manner, which brings me to Eddie Butler. I don’t know the man, but I know of him. I have never met the man, but after the way he has behaved I never want to.

Divide and conquer appears to be Butler’s game. Butler has pulled this same stunt before which brought the demise of the National Front. I suspect the same thing could happen to the BNP if people don’t use their brains and check out facts before listening to the tripe being spread around.

I would like to know why groups such as Searchlight backed Butler’s leadership challenge, after all, their problem is with the constitution and not with Nick Griffin. What difference would a different chairman make if the constitution is still the same? So, what’s in it for them? Is Butler a plant, an infiltrator? His past – and present - actions indicate that may be the case.

Blogs are springing up which attack the chairman and also nationalist websites that support Mr Griffin. One in particular being targeted was created by a personal friend of mine and is The Home of the Green Arrow. GA, as we call him, suffers threats daily from Butler and his crew, in particular from Simon Bennett, ex BNP webmaster. The vileness that comes from Bennett holds no bounds. I won’t write about him here as GA has said more than enough and I really can’t be bothered with him.

Without blogs/websites like The Green Arrow, groups such as the reformists would have free reign of the internet. People would only see what the reformists want them to see. This, we believe, is why they are doing what they are doing. They do not like anyone going against their grain, upsetting their apple cart. Their childish antics show them up for what they really are.

I believe you should know a little about one of the writers over on the reform site seeing as no one has mentioned him before. Mick Wood aka AdvancedApe, aka Lord Chron, aka Brit-Nat (this is just a few of the internet names he goes by) who is listed as writer Michael Wood, was the creator of the BNP Chronicle blog. Wood spent a lot of time on Chatroll, acquiring moderator status, until he was demoted due to him disrupting the room and causing friction between members (divide and conquer again). He eventually became a moderator on the main BNP site which enabled him to get very friendly with Bennett. It was shortly after this that quite a few of us realised something was not right. Many of us could not log into our BNP website accounts. We couldn’t access our profiles, accept friendship requests, in fact we couldn’t do anything at all with them.

I tried to contact Bennett several times but he didn’t get back to me and in the end I just gave up. I believe this was the beginning of their little game.

Wood, who has never been to a BNP meeting, attended a Red White & Blue family weekend, or been an activist in any way started verbally attacking BNP members and supporters on chatroll and PalTalk, something I found really strange to say that we were supposed all be one big happy family.

Wood called some of our members ‘Nazis’ and called one of the nicest blokes you could ever meet, who happens to be a pensioner, ‘old, lower class scum’, for no apparent reason. He is also very fond of saying he will ‘tool you’ when he doesn’t agree you. Hardly the behaviour of someone who is part of the same group is it?

The reason I wanted to write about this is to get this simple message across. These people want to break away from the original party, turn it around. In essence, the BNP would be a new party. How long would a new party take to establish? Years!

Sharon Ebanks tried it with her New Nationalist Party and failed miserably within a year. What better way than to divide and conquer and go forward than with an already established political party? All the hard work of building it up has already been done.

But what if the party did go down that route, imagine who is running the show... Eddie Butler – brothel creeper, Sadie Graham – leaked the members list, Simon Bennett – thug who brought down the BNP website two days before the general election, Mick Wood – narcissistic, keyboard warrior and troll and not forgetting Sharon Ebanks .

Would you really want to be in a party that is run by the likes of these people?

Well I wouldn’t and if the worst did ever come to the worse I, and many others, would not be renewing our memberships.

The BNP would be no more.

In the eyes of the challengers, JOB DONE!

BNP leadership challenge results

Below are the number of nominations received for each candidate in the recent BNP Leadership challenge with a turnout of 29%.

Although 29% might seem a low turnout, it must be remembered that the official nomination form stated that if you were content with Nick Griffin remaining as Leader of the BNP, there was no need to return the form thus showing a minimum support for the chairman of at least 80% of the party membership.

1. Mr Nick Griffin MEP 995
2. E. Butler 214
3. Mr Richard Barnbrook 23
4. Mr Derek Adams 4

None of the would be challengers managed to gather enough support for the leadership challenge to move to a full vote of the membership.

Taken from the Green Arrow website

BNP nominations are closed.

Nominations for the British National Party's leadership contest have closed, with three candidates hoping to challenge Nick Griffin.

Pub landlord Derek Adams, London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook and ex-national elections officer Eddy Butler are the declared contenders.

The party is set to announce later if any got the backing of enough long-term BNP members to force a full ballot.

Mr Griffin, leader since 1999, has said he intends to stand down by 2013.

The anti-immigration party has no seats at Westminster although it has two Members of the European Parliament and a member of the London Assembly.

It won 1.9% of the UK vote at the general election in May - up from 0.7% of the vote it got in 2005.

'More accountable'

Under the terms of the BNP's constitution, a leadership election is called every year.

The challengers have to secure the nominating signatures of 20% of those who have been party members for at least five years to force a full vote.

Mr Griffin, as existing leader, is deemed to have been nominated automatically if a full contest goes ahead.

The BNP has not yet revealed whether any of the challengers has mustered the support necessary to go to a party-wide ballot, telling the BBC they would announce the result later on Wednesday.

The four candidates have each posted short manifestos on the BNP website.

Mr Griffin says: "In 10 years, our activists and I have turned this party from a bad political joke into a major factor in British politics. There is still much to be done, and it is best done under proven, principled and visionary leadership, without futile, time-wasting elections."

Mr Butler says he believes the party needs "a complete re-launch in order to survive", promising to implement "changes to make the party more democratically accountable" and says he would "bring all functions such as the call centre back to the mainland and close the Belfast office".

Mr Adams says "our vote increased at the general election and we have more enquiries and a larger membership than ever", he pledges to be "a clean-hands candidate who will be a fresh face".

Mr Barnbrook argues that he has the "integrity, impartiality and lack of self-interest that will command the loyalty and solidarity of all the membership" and says he can "end the strife caused by this destructive, divisive and bitter campaign".

In May, Mr Griffin said he would stand down as leader by 2013 to focus on his campaign to be re-elected as an MEP for North West England in 2014.

All four candidate statements can be found at the special leadership challenge statement page here.

Results are due any time after 1pm today

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