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One of our editors alerted me to the results of the European Parlimentary elections and it looks like the British National Party will get its first-ever representative in the MEP along with Geert Wilders party in Holland. You can check out the results here.

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1. Weaver on 06 Jun 2009 at 8:51 pm #

   Broken European Ballot Box Seals in Broxtowe

   At 10pm on Thursday 4th June, BNP councillors Dave and Nina Brown went into the polling station at Brinsley Parish Hall, Cordy Lane, Brinsley to secure official BNP seals on two European election ballot boxes.

   Both boxes with intact seals were photographed.

   On arriving for the count at The Pearson Centre in Beeston at 10am Friday 5th June, it was immediately noticed that the seals had been broken.

   The BNP councillors immediately alerted the Returning Officer, Ruth Hyde, who after looking at the seals, claimed that the boxes had been ’stored securely’ below Beeston Town Hall in a room with a security keypad.

   BNP poised to win one to as many as four seats:

   The possibility of a win or loss is calculated upon the minimum percentages required for the BNP to place on that region’s list of elected MEPs.

   - South West region: Average BNP vote: 6.8 percent. Result: No Euro BNP seat.

   - South East region: Average BNP vote: 7.4 percent. Result: BNP vote just below the threshold, therefore no Euro BNP seat. (This result can be affected by the fact that the BNP only fought local elections in many areas which had either never seen a BNP candidate before, or which had no record of previous large BNP votes.)

   - London region: Only one local election contested by BNP, vote was 17.5 percent. Impossible to make prediction, therefore must presume no Euro BNP seat.

   - East of England (Eastern) region: Average BNP vote: 9.8 percent. Result: BNP vote just below the threshold, therefore no Euro BNP seat.

   - East Midlands region: Average BNP vote: 14.3 percent. Result: One possible Euro BNP seat.

   - West Midlands region: Average BNP vote: 12.6 percent. Result: One possible Euro BNP seat. (This result could be boosted by the fact that the best BNP-supporting areas in the West Midlands – Stoke, Sandwell, Dudley and others – did not have local elections on Thursday, meaning that large numbers of BNP voters are not reflected in this average figure.)

   - Yorkshire & Humberside region: Average BNP vote: 10.3 percent. Result: One possible Euro BNP seat. (This result could be boosted by the fact that the best BNP-supporting areas in Yorkshire – Leeds and others – did not have local elections on Thursday, meaning that large numbers of BNP votes are not reflected in this average figure.)

   - North East region: Only two mayoral elections held, average BNP percentage in those two contests was 6 percent. Impossible to calculate on those figures, therefore no Euro BNP seat.

   - North West region: Average BNP vote: 13.1 percent. Result: One BNP Euro seat, and possibly two.

   It therefore seems likely that that BNP will take at least one European parliamentary seat in the elections. If the local results hold true on the Euro level, it could be more.

2. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 12:46 am #

   BNP Wins First European MEP in Yorkshire and Humberside Region. That’s one for sure – it looks like the BNP will secure one additional Euro MP seat too.

   UKIP is doing very well too. I don’t know what to make of UKIP, but it is a tolerably better party than the others. According to Nick Griffin in a video he released recently there are some good people in the UKIP even if the leadership was caught with such terrible corruption recently.

   UKIP has 10 seats atm. Full election results found here.

3. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 12:54 am #

   In total, the UK sends 72 MEPs to Euro Parliament.

   In total there are 783 MEPs for all of the EU.

   -

   During this election, there were 69 seats up for grabs in Scotland, Wales, and England. 3 more were available in NI which uses a different voting system and doesn’t appear to be running any anti-EU candidates.

   49 of 69 seats have been declared thusfar.

4. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 1:12 am #

   Nick Griffin won his seat!! BNP up to two. The EU far right has made substantial gains in general, which hurts the EU leviathan.

   All results are back now from England and Wales. The BNP wins 2 of 63 seats. The UKIP wins 13 of 63. Only NI and Scotland are left, so this must be all that’s significant for the UK.

   The SNP will win seats in Scotland, but they aren’t anti-EU. Similarly Plaid Cymru (Wales) and Sinn Féin (NI) aren’t anti-EU.

5. Kirt Higdon on 08 Jun 2009 at 10:21 am #

   Am I alone in finding strange this obsessive interest in who wins a tiny number of seats in the EU parliament?

6. RedPhillips on 08 Jun 2009 at 1:47 pm #

   Kirt, I think when things have been trending bad for so long any sign of a reversal is good news.

   I find it very sad that the Scottish and Welsh independence parties are not anti-EU.

   In the US the regionalists are the most fiercely anti-globalist.

7. fellist on 08 Jun 2009 at 3:26 pm #

   It’s morning again in …England

   Kurt, it’s not the European parliament that matters, it’s the people represented by the BNP who matter.

   Red, it’s the same with the Irish ‘nationalists’ – they are more committed to replacing Irishmen with third worlders than the mainstream left.

8. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 11:04 pm #

   Nick Griffin is now pledging to go through the EU archives in search of corruption – haha!

   And he says here the issue is rebelling against unelected Euro bureaucrats. And similarly he’s rebelling against the one party of “liblabcon” (similar to our “Republicrat” slur).

   Just how fierce was the anti-BNP campaign? More anti-BNP literature was distributed than all other leaflets for all of the other parties combined!!

   The volume of literature distributed outstripped that of the main parties. Local “Hope not Hate” groups distributed 3,400,000 newspapers and leaflets; 1.6 million being hand-delivered in the North West alone, 850,000 leaflets in Yorkshire and Humber. On one day, 48 hours before the election, we held 180 simultaneous activities and hand-delivered 500,000 leaflets.

   Over 50,000 people volunteered for our online campaign and 1,500 people donated. We placed anti-BNP articles in the national newspapers on a daily basis and our eve-of-poll email was sent to 600,000 people, the biggest single email in British domestic political history. We estimate that 5,000 people took part in the on-the-ground campaigns around the country, many for the first time in their lives.

   The campaign made a difference; they gained seats but nothing compared to what they expected and it almost stopped Griffin scraping in by just 1,200 votes. The fightback has already started. In the early hours of Monday morning we launched a “Not in our name” petition. Over 25,000 people have already signed it, a testament to the anger that has followed the BNP successes.

9. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 11:12 pm #

   Put another way: the powers that be see opposing the BNP as the most significant issue.

   As BNP Andrew Brons MEP said in his acceptance speech (paraphrase): the BNP has been more strongly suppressed than any other political party in Britain’s history – more strongly than even the Communist party was.

   This isn’t some grass roots anti-BNP movement either – it’s media powers like Rupert Murdoch as well as Searchlight and the BBC. What’s feared is the BNP will free Britain, and those who rule her don’t want that.

   The UKIP is corrupt and appears wishy-washy on immigration. I’m doubtful it will fight much against the invasion and enslavement that is taking place. Griffin says though that there are some good MEPs in it despite that the leadership is corrupt.

   Griffin and other party leaders recently spoke on Peter Hitchens (someone we’re all familiar with) on their site’s BNPtv. Griffin said Hitchens pushes for all the things the party stands for but thinks badly of the party. So, Griffin invited him to come and meet a cross section of the party. Griffin said Hitchens had only met Griffin and one other activist whom Griffin admitted was hopping mad, lol, but not representative of the party.

10. Weaver on 08 Jun 2009 at 11:30 pm #

    I’ve heard Griffin was influenced by Third Position ideas.

    And similarly I’ve seen distributist writings on his site. I realise some won’t like the racial orientation and especially not the pre-2000 party stances, but otherwise the party’s pretty solid. It’s now fairly pro-Israel too which some will like, even though Jewish groups in Britain seem to be very strongly opposed to it.

11. Weaver on 09 Jun 2009 at 4:15 am #

    Sean Gabb at VDare:
    

    What we have at the moment, therefore, is not a revolution—as some of the newspapers have claimed—but a peasants’ revolt. We have grievances. But we lack the organised articulating body for those grievances that will bring about meaningful change.

    This may, though, be one of the precursors of revolution. It may be our equivalent of the Diamond Necklace Scandal in ancien regime France. That did not bring on the Great Revolution. But it did prepare the way by showing the greed and stupidity of the people who ruled France.

    It is to be hoped—though not necessarily expected—that the longer term result of what has just happened will be to enable the emergence of new political forces in the United Kingdom—or perhaps just in England. I do not think these have yet made an appearance. I voted for the United Kingdom Independence Party. But this is a protest party. It has neither the personnel nor the ideology for mounting a challenge capable of overturning the established order of things.

    Several people I know voted for the British National Party, and are rejoicing in its successes. This party has the best leader any nationalist party in England has had since the Establishment itself stopped being recognisably pro-British. He is clever. He is articulate. He is brave. He and his party, nevertheless, are tainted by their national socialist past. Too many of the party’s leading members have said or done things that most people in this country regard as disreputable.

    Whatever successes it may now be celebrating, I do not think the British National Party has much of a future. Or, if it does have a future, this must be under a new and untainted leadership.

    However, just because I cannot see where it will lead, I can take pleasure in watching the modern equivalent of the Peasants’ Revolt, and hope that it will ultimately lead us out of the gutter into which our political class has dumped the British people.

    I hope he’s wrong. How many Nick Griffins come along?

12. fellist on 09 Jun 2009 at 9:38 am #

    Revolt?

    “Non, sire, c’est une révolution”.

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