UKIP have rejected an offer of an anti-EU electoral pact for next year’s EU elections from the BNP. Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, was quite firm in saying they have nothing in common with the BNP. Well said UKIP, the BNP’s offer was an attempt to undermine civic nationalism, in the same way they have in

The BNP has announced its Buckingham candidate for the 2010 General Election, adding another candidate to a slate which already includes UKIP, John Stevens (former Lib Dem member and before that, Conservative MEP,) Patrick Phillips (“conservatively minded” Independent candidate) and Geoff Howard (former Conservative and UKIP member). With the three main parties refraining from standing...

How can anyone write about the 2004 European election results and not mention the most salient fact about them: that Ukip got 16.1% of the vote? That Ukip came third, pushing the Lib Dems into fourth place? When talking about the north-west region, how can you talk about keeping the BNP out without talking about who did keep the BNP out? Ukip, that is, with 11.7% of the vote. Just to remind everyo...

Swanley St Mary’s, Sevenoaks District Council BNP - 41% (+41) Lab - 34% (-21) Con - 25% (-) BNP gain from Lab (UKIP did not stand, having previously secured 20%) I hesitated to even write about this, but for the BNP to secure a seat in a local council by-election in Kent is deeply worrying. I drive past Swanley each time I drive to London - it's just off the M25 at the M20 junction. I k...

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 ...

Yes, I know that UKIP already has MEPs, although little things like that have never bothered the Beeb in the past. But the BNP hasn't. Yet much of Newsnight earlier this week was given over to plugging the BNP in general, and the BNP in the North West in particular. By contrast, yesterday's publication of NO2EU's complete list of candidates, including several people rather more notable than anyone...

There’re off as the horse racing fraternity say, the general election is to be on May 6, less than four weeks away, mercifully making it a comparatively short campaign. Like most radicals throughout the UK, as far as casting my vote I am hardly spoilt for choice, in my constituency the three main parties are standing along with the BNP and Ukip. That the latter two parties are both standing ...

Today's YouGov poll has these Euro election voting intentions: Con 26% Lab 21% UKIP 16% LD 14% BNP 7% The actual result in the previous 2004 Euros was almost identical: Con 27% Lab 23% UKIP 16% LD 15% BNP 5% So four years of regeneration under Cameron seem to have delivered a 1% fall in the Tory vote...

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...

YouGov has just released a European Election voting intention poll and it has Labour in third behind UKIP. The poll has the Tories on 26, UKIP 18, Labour on 16, the Lib Dems 15, the Greens 10 and the BNP on 5. However, if those not certain to vote are included the numbers become the Tories 37, Labour 21, Lib Dem 19 and UKIP 8. So, who can get their vote out is going to be key. It is hard to imagin...