I don't know why the BNP wants anything to do with UKIP.
The BNP has already taken UKIP's seat on the Greater London Assembly. It only needs one ninth of the votes cast (not the eligible vote, the votes cast) to get a Strasbourg seat there in June. One eighth in the North West. A mere one tenth in the South East. And so on. Its supporters are far more likely to vote, because they are angrier people, while UKIP's electorate now cares more about immigration than about Europe, and far more than was the case at the last European Elections.
Thanks to the complacency of those who set the agenda in this country, the BNP is home and dry in all nine English regions (even here in the North East, with a mere three seats to fill - only Neil Herron gave a seat to the Lib Dems rather than UKIP last time, and he almost certainly won't stand again, not should he), and well on course for two seats in at least three of them.
Meanwhile, UKIP is busily imploding. Its star turn from last time hasn't been a member for years. And its actually quite interesting programme has been written up as a book by a Tory MP and a Tory MEP, as the putative programme for a future Tory government certainly not headed by David Cameron or George Osborne, i.e., as the basis for a successful or unsuccessful putsch in the next Parliament.
But add together the Tory and UKIP votes in any of the three Northern regions (as well as Neil Heron's vote in the North East), or in either of the two Midland regions, or in the South West, or even in Scotland or Wales, and you arrive at a ludicrously high figure for the natural Tory vote there. It certainly did not happen like that.
There is only one place for last time's normally Labour or Lib Dem UKIP voters to go. What would you have instead? The BNP?
By the way, the people who turn up from time to time, to berate my alleged inactivity and what have you, have still yet to produce any actual candidates for next June. Not a single one. Too busy drinking in some student union bar, or something.
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"Too busy drinking in some student union bar, or something."
ReplyDeleteWise people
The conversation even there would be beyond your intellectual level, dear.
ReplyDeleteDidn't you once have a bust up with him where he got so angry with you that he said he was just going to watch the football instead, and you told him that he had found his intellectual level?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes.
ReplyDeleteHe was all ready to walk out until I said that, in that case, to the victor the spoils - I would be taking the untouched pint that he would be leaving behind.
He was having none of that, so he stayed put.
But he uttered not a single word for the rest of the evening.
do you think the reason why people might not come back here is because when they do write - as I know Bobby did earlier - you don't put their comment up?
ReplyDeleteBobby (who is not actually a member of the BPA) wrote in only to scream that he would not under any circumstances be providing us with a candidate!
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you and goodbye, then.
Really? Not one single candidate for next June?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, David, I sometimes think you're the only competent person in the BPA.
Not from him, no. There are others, of course.
ReplyDeleteHe bangs on about how much he is "doing". But there is only one thing TO do. He hasn't done it, and has made it clear that he will not be doing it.
To be honest, I think that he is too young to remember proper politics. Yet that is what is coming back, and not before time.