Fenham Ward by-election today and I am very lucky that I am able to still give you the latest news from Newcastle. That's because Ken Booth, our excellent candidate, wasn't happy with me yesterday because someone told him that I had described him as "a boring old fart" on the BNP website. What I actually said was "a rather dry old stick" which is very different. After checking for himself, Ken agreed to this latest run-down. He told me:
"Everything depends on today. Either Labour, the Lib-Dems or ourselves could win. We will do everything we can to get our vote out. But what is most important is to look at our vote share. We are coming up from just 10%, where the other two parties are working from a base of 35%. That's a huge amount of ground to make up."
Cumbria's elections officer, Clive Jefferson, was at the opening of the postal votes yesterday. Of course he is sworn to secrecy about what took place, but what I did glean from what he was able to tell me was that neither Labour, nor the Lib-Dems had built up an unassailable lead and Clive confirms what Ken told me . . . "Everything depends on today".
If anyone can get to Newcastle today to help, activity will be going on till 10.00pm.
Interesting quote from Gerry Gable in the Bexley Times yesterday:
The newspaper reported: "But anti-BNP campaigners said the result did not reflect a rise in the party's popularity in the area. Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable said: "They have always had a strong base in the Bexley area, so this is no great shock.".
Our antagonist-in-chief acknowledging that we have a strong base of support!!!!
Normally he says we don't have any support and that anyone who has voted BNP "has been duped".
So why the change of tack?
I'll tell you why. Searchlight has just been handed a huge budget by the Labour Party and Trade Unions to try to keep the BNP votes down this year. Gerry knows this is a forlorn hope so in order to keep the funding coming in he will be dismissing every significant BNP vote with the quote: "This result does not reflect a rise in the Party's popularity. They have always had a strong base in the area, so this is no great shock."
I predict that Gerry's next three quotes to the press will be:
"This result does not reflect a rise in the Party's popularity in the area. They have always had a strong base in Newcastle, so this is no great shock."
"This result does not reflect a rise in the Party's popularity in the area. They have always had a strong base in Tameside, so this is no great shock."
"This result does not reflect a rise in the Party's popularity in the area. They have always had a strong base in Croydon, so this is no great shock."
Experience teaches you to always keep your feet on the ground, and that is what everyone must do during these exciting times. I have the greatest antidote when I suspect my expections are running away with me - the Mid Staffs by-election in March 1990.
I was the National Front's campaign manager and spent nearly a month in the constituency, working every day to try to maximise the Nationalist vote.
This was the result:
Mid Staffordshire (Lab gain from Con)
S Heal (Lab) 27,649
C Prior (Con) 18,200
T Jones (Lib-Dem) 6,315
I Wood (SDP) 1,422
R Saunders (Green) 1,215
J Bazeley (Ind) 547
D Sutch (Monster) 336
C Hill (NF) 311
It was a 'throat-slitting' result, just 0.6% of the vote and beaten by the Monster Raving Loony Party. But little did I know at the time that those four, what appeared to be wasted, weeks would provide me with so much stability today.
And that's because it taught me to take nothing for granted and to appreciate each and every day that our Party is making progress. The membership of the BNP is growing every day and our election results are getting better every week. That is a massive feat considering what our enemies have thrown at us.
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"Searchlight has just been handed a huge budget by the Labour Party and Trade Unions to try to keep the BNP votes down this year. "
ReplyDeleteAnd it will be money down the drain. You can't make lies into truth no matter how much money you throw around.
How much money would you have to spend on publicity to convince the British people that a triangle had four sides?
Probably the same amount that you'd need to convince them that immigration was beneficial, or Islam was a Religion of Peace.
NuLabour can bend many laws by bribery and corruption, but they can't bend the iron laws of logic.
Absolutely right 'you cannot make lies into truth'.
ReplyDeleteLiebour will not accept the general public CAN NOW SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES what is happening to this country. and the usual rascist, extremist blah, blah, blah claptrap is not going to work any more and is shot to pieces.
Should we expect to lose by a respectable and believable to the masses 8 votes again, and again, and again ad infinum. Right Mr Brooon, we believe you lol
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