Here’s a picture of Chris Mitchell (left), Young BNP organiser for Bedfordshire, who worked hard for the BNP’s 2007 Luton Borough Council election campaign: Source: Three Counties Unity And here’s Chris Brennan, a BNP candidate in those same elections: Together, the pictures perfectly illustrate the BNP in private and the BNP’s ‘modernised’ image in public. Bren...

Last night's council by-election results: Pimhill Ward, Shrewsbury & Atcham BC. Con hold. Con 341 (45.6%, -25%), LD 331 (44.3%, +44.3%), BNP 59 (7.9%, +7.9%), Ind 16 (2.1%, +2.1%). Technically a 34.7% swing from Con to LD since 2007 but this is because the LDs did not run in 2007 but had run in earlier elections and come similarly close. Labour ran in 2007 but not in this contest or any of the...

It appears that the BNP won a council by-election last night in Swanley. The vote breakdown: BNP 408, Lab 332, Con 247. Previous result May 2007: Two seats Lab 462, 420, Con 208, 197, Ukip 165 Worrying news, although on the plus side the BNP did very poorly in a Lewisham council by-election on the same night where they had deliberately targeted anti-knife crime campaigner Duwayne Brookes. The BNP ...

The story of this year's euro-elections could very well be the rise and rise of the BNP. But what also makes the elections fascinating is the behaviour of the media On the one hand, we see the "right wing" press, with the possible exception of the Mail on Sunday largely ignoring the BNP issue. Most recent to do so was The Times, which managed to discuss the elections without making any refere...

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The prospects for Bangladesh's long-awaited parliamentary elections remain in doubt, after the government refused to meet the demands of the key Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The BNP had previously threatened to boycott the poll, the country's first democratic election in seven years, arguing that it and allied parties needed more time to prepare. However, BNP leader and former Pri...

The BNP says it will contest the Mayoral election in Hackney this May (and the ones in Newham and Lewisham): I'm the Labour agent for incumbent Mayor Jules Pipe and whilst I'm not blase about this threat I can't say that I am trembling in my boots given the BNP got only 1409 votes (2.3%) in Hackney in the 2008 GLA elections. The BNP hasn't managed to field a council candidate in Hackney since 1998...

According to today's Independent, 'senior Labour figures' are said to have told Gordon Brown that the BNP are likely to win two seats in June's European elections. Oh dear, are we to see another attempt by Labour to hype the threat from the BNP so as to drive voters back to the shelter of the Labour Party? It is true that the BNP have has a series of good by-election results, and this week's

Ahead of the European Elections I have been asked to sign petitions, pass on links, watch videos and generally plead for people not to vote for the BNP. I'm happy to do these things but I must confess to being less fearful about the BNP gaining a few seats than others seem to be.You see, I know a thing or two about the BNP in office, I sit next to a member of the BNP at the London Assembly. What

Just two last night: Adeyfield West, Dacoram BC. Con hold. Con 486 (43.5%, +2.1), Lab 429 (38.4%, -3.9), BNP 203 (18.2%, +18.2). Swing of 3% from Lab to Con since 2007. This is in Hemel Hempstead constituency, which has a notoional Tory majority of 168. Redwell West, Wellingborough BC. Con hold. Con 570 (57.2%, -1.8), Lab 186 (18.7%, +3.7), BNP 84 (8.4%, -7.3), LD 72 (7.2%, +3.7), Eng Dem 62 (6.2%...