Screen grab taken from Collett's Facebook
The post-election BNP infighting has got even bloodier as yet more former officials and activists have decided to come out into the open following the party’s disastrous performance during the 2010 campaign.
Mark Collett, the former director of publicity, and Simon Bennett, the former BNP web-master, have both cross posted Eddy Butler’s controversial message, which criticised the Griffin leadership, on their Facebook pages. Collett blames Griffin for “appalling” election results and is calling on him to go. He writes:
“The measure of a man is that they can admit when they are wrong, sadly I doubt we will ever see that from Nick Griffin.”
Danny Lake, former head of the Young BNP, has also come out and is calling for a new leadership. Lake believes Griffin and the party should stop ”blaming the establishment, the electoral system” and start facing up to their responsibilities.
“The cold hard truth of the matter is that Griffin’s BNP … fails to come up with the right solutions and continuously fails in its attempt to understand the wider issues.
Until that party has new leadership, it won’t go any further.”
Daniel McDonald, a former BNP PPC for Horsham, has written on Nothing British’s wall he thinks Griffin and James Dowson are “scum” and believes the party’s membership needs “open their eyes”. McDonald also claims to have a dossier on both Dowson and Griffin and is threatening to publish it in the hope of persuading them of the need to change the leadership.
However, there still remains a number of die-hard Griffin loyalists within the party. Natasha Rowsell, who is married to John McLoughlin and whose family featured as the BNP’s poster family, is standing by Griffin. Rowsell has attacked Collett on his Facebook wall and called him “desperate”. She believes Griffin is the best hope for the party and has implied that potential challengers are lacking the intelligence to lead the BNP, adding:
“The party needs Nick and needs more leaders in all areas, I dont think that all candidates were up to scratch personally”.
Furthermore, the BNP’s internet troubles continue to grow, with Nick Griffin admitting on Facebook he has lost control of his party’s on-line operation.
Maurice Cousins
The BNP is completely united , it’s only a small minority calling for Mr Griffin to step down.
As for the Election results, the BNP increased their vote all over the country.
2005 192,746
2010 563,743
Disaster? Certainly NOT !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/
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In one sense good, in another possibly not so; the danger is that factionalisation will allow splinter-groups formed of some very nasty people to drop off the radar and regroup for a while.
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It comes as no surprise that they are infighting.They will always be a disorganised party with a good smattering of fruitcakes. Decent people join and leave,they dont stay long. This is as good as it gets for the BNP.
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Well we will have to see who is the last man standing & what they have to say about it.
But I think the ideas & views of the BNP won’t go away even if the BNP does, many of us promote our views by different methods & actions by positive action in our communities.
Remember a lot of people approved of BNP policies when they weren’t told that’s what they were.
So the ideas are good & popular even if the BNP aren’t as popular because of the relentless media campaign against them including you.
But their vote went up even though it was to no avail.
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