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 ...

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...

The successes against the BNP in Barking and Stoke in the General Election have created a sense that the tide is turning against the BNP, But these high-profile victories hide a murkier picture in which the BNP actually grew in popularity. Today Labour councillors warn that the biggest threat now in the fight against the BNP is complacency. The real story of what happened in the election shows the...

Up until now the Tory strategy - strongly advocated by Eric Pickles and accepted by David Cameron - has been to work around the BNP. It's where I've been, too. The idea is to deny the BNP the 'oxygen of...

Yesterday I was saying that I don't think the Tories can win enough seats at the next election to enable them to form a government based on the latest opinion polls. However, there was one factor that I forgot to take into account - the BNP factor. After the last election, someone did an analysis of the UKIP factor on Tory results - I think it was over on EU Referendum. Their analysis suggest...

The media and chattering classes are agog that the BNP, a fascistic and racist party, have gained some electoral success. So what? The Labour and Tory parties have been broadly fascistic (a corporatist 'soft fascism' whose symbol is a CCTV rather than the goose-step-and-armband kind) for the best part of a decade. Thus the way I see it, the BNP is just a more overt and perhaps more hones...

Last night's council by-election results: Fenside Boston Ward, Boston BC. BNP gain from Boston Bypass Ind. BNP 279 (42.9%, +42.9), BBI 141 (21.7%, -21.6), Con 119 (18.3%, n/c), Lab 64 (9.8%, -14), UKIP 24 (3.7%, -10.9), LD 23 (3.5%, +3.5). Swing of 32.3% from BBI to BNP since 2007. North Road Ward, Darlington UA. LD gain from (former LD) Independent. LD 561 (50.8%, -4.2), Lab 262 (23.7%, n/c), Con...

Last night's council by-election results: Greaseley Giltbrook/Newthorpe Ward, Broxtowe BC. Con hold. Con 1125 (49.1%, +0.4), Lab 600 (26.2%, +1.6), BNP 301 (13.1%, -2.5), LD 232 (10.1%, -1), UKIP 31 (1.4%, +1.4). Swing of 0.6% from Con to Lab since 2007. This is in the marginal Broxtowe constituency, number 42 in the Tory target list. Honiton St Michaels Ward, East Devon DC. LD gain from Con. LD 6...

I seem to be posting a lot about the BNP these days. Believe me, I find it a little tiresome, but I find the "BNP are racist" argument even more so. The excellent blog Letters From A Tory links to yet another tirade against the BNP from Matt Wardman. It's the usual thing - the BNP won't allow non-whites to join so they must be racist. The point being made though is that the BNP use the e...