The BNP: Product Of First Past The Post

No opposition to Labour in numerous Yorkshire and Lancashire towns. So look what happened.

More votes for the Tories than for the BNP in Barking & Dagenham. Yet look what happened.

Identifying the Westminster seat where your party did best in the Euros and then going hell for leather to take it worked for George Galloway. And why not? That’s called politics. Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons both stand very good chances of election to the Commons next year. And Richard Barnbrook? Well, let’s face it, while Jon Cruddas is safe enough, who’s going to bother turning out these days just to vote for Margaret Hodge?

Why should no one have access to the parliamentary process except through Giffin, or Brons, or Barnbrook, or Marc Collett, or some such person?

And the media need to lay off the “thick Northerners” caricature of the BNP, just as the BBC might consider stopping the simple falsehood that Labour no longer controls any County Council. I suppose if you think that Doncaster is the Deep North, then it’s no surprise that you have never heard of Durham at all. If the BNP really wanted to sell itself on the ground as some sort of Lega Nord, the only party that understood or even cared about the North (and probably also the Midlands), then it could rapidly become a very formidable force indeed.