“In a nutshell… The BNP has risen in popularity, which is why

Comment on BNP Manifesto 2010 : British National Party Key Pledges by VoteNo ToBNP.

“In a nutshell… The BNP has risen in popularity, which is why I guess you have changed your name.”

Actually I haven’t changed my name, always used the same one on here.

“Why do you think the BNP has grown?”

Effectively the BNP hasn’t grown, yes they made some gains under PR in 2009, but (and it’s a big but)

They haven’t made any gains since that in real terms. The BNP have around 50 councillors out of over 20,000 across the UK and 2 MEPs.

To see what would be a ‘bigger’ party in real terms, the Green Party (who I don’t vote for) have 40 counciilors in Norfolk alone and 2 MEPs, UKIP have 13 MEPs, so in reality their really isn’t a massive growth in the BNP just more media coverage.

In 2010 the BNP have stood in 12 council election and gained just 2,236 votes, and in three of those their vote share dropped between 45 and 50% since 2008 again a dip in support rather than a growth in support.

“If the experts can get it wrong – then what makes you think that the public in general will listen to them again?”

Simply because they are right more times than they are wrong, which would you rather trust:

A. People that have the education and ability to do these things

B. A few blokes sitting in a pub ready the newspapers and making up the figures?

“Looking at the stats on this website the BNP +UKIP almost 10% of the vote. Does that concern you?”

No it doesn’t because I know from my time of hanging around on this site that the poll on the BNP side has been manipulated, in the desperation of the BNP.

And I trust the other polls, which almost all give the BNP 1-2% of the vote not enough to be concerned about.

This poll as I am sure David will admit isn’t really as serious political poll and shouldn’t be treated as such.

“If its accurate and our population is 60m, then that means we have 6 million people who are unhappy, and believe rightly or wrongly that they have not been treated fairly. ”

Actually we have around 45 million people that are allowed to vote in the UK.

I think people need to look at the reality here, no the BNP really don’t stand much of a chance of getting MPs elected this year. If the BNP supporters actually listened to people like Nick Griffin and Simon Darby etc even they openly admit that.

There effort is going into winning council seats not MPs and that is the truth of the matter as admitted by Nick Griffin himself.

At this present moment the only real threat from the BNP is they have an outside chance of being able to control Barking & Dagenham council, and it is a real outside chance.