We are testing the water as a new fledgling party and fielding 3 British Democratic Party candidates in the County Council elections in May.
Our candidates are as follows:
Leicestershire County Council – Coalville
Graham Partner – British Democrats
Graham is defending his seat this year. He was elected 4 years ago and has sat as an independent for the last two years.
Leicestershire County Council – Loughborough South
Kevan Stafford – British Democrats
Kevan has stood in elections in the past and is a member of the BDP steering group.
Lancashire County Council – Pendle Central
Gary Topping – Brit Dems
Gary has also stood in elections before and is very active in the Burnley and Pendle area.
More information will be posted later.
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Andrew Brons was absolutely right about starting this party cautiously.
Making big claims – or any claims at all – is one of the disastrous mistakes made in the past. Hubris infects your supporters and then nemesis follows when you can’t live up to wild expectations.
UKIP looks ready for the drop along that primrose path.
UKIP willl probably poll very well but fail to obtain any decent number of councillors. This is mainly because the divisions for County Councils are large and comprise several local council wards. In my area (which is strongly Tory) UKIP will split the Tory vote and possibly allow the Liberal Democrat to win.
I don’t understand why the BDP is standing any candidates at all. The party is barely two months old and has no support base amongst the general public as yet. Further, May’s election is going to be a meat-grinder, as the BNP is going to find out to its cost. Whereas the BNP has everything to lose by not contesting the election the BDP has nothing to lose. Good luck to these three patriots all the same.
Yes, it is quite true that the BDP has no support base amongst the general public yet but every party has to start somewhere and the BDP is no exception. Furthermore, the general public have to know that UKIP is NOT the only explicit anti-EU party in this country. UKIP ideologically-speaking is just the anti-EU, Atlanticist, Thatcherite-wing of the Tories and thus HAVE NO IDEA how to rebuild this country’s shattered economy and to get people off welfare in a FAIR WAY.
Good luck will try and help Graham & Kev tough time for a new party but good candidates who work hard
Let’s all hope they get a good percentage of the vote though it will be difficult when the media keeps-on promoting Nigel Farage’s Thatcherite Atlanticist globalist Tory Party in eternal exile. This country needs moderate nationalist policies more than it has ever done (particularly in regard to the economy which UKIP if it ever obtained power would do nothing to rectify)
Great news! Pleased to see things are moving forward;congratulations and good luck to these trail-blazers.
Comrade Cruddas and his beautifully remote THIRD home on the Irish Coast where he is writing Miliband’s manifesto
John Cruddas will write Ed Miliband’s manifesto from his four-bedroom County Mayo retreat. He also owns two London homes in a Notting Hill mansion block and his Dagenham constituency. Mr Cruddas designed his latest home in Ireland himself with an open-plan kitchen, dining room and office.
£180,000 holiday home will enable Mr Cruddas to enjoy two of his favourite past times – golf and fishing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305035/L…
Yes, I’m sure our wealthy traitors and sell-outs ALL have their bolt-holes abroad –when their Globalist-Marxist policies produce enough poverty, misery and danger for us Caucasian natives here on the mainland.
He might be safer on Rockall!
I would like to see hundreds of Brit Dem candidates but you have got to walk before you run. Also I agree with others who say that UKIP will hoover up the rightwing vote and to get bad votes on our first outing would be a disaster. The big question is how badly will the BNP do?????????? Will they give up elections after May and just concentrate on suckering old folks into leaving legacies which seems their main activity these days???????
Excellent strategy. I would define it as “testing the water”. Secondarily, there may be a little bit of publicity in it for the emergent Party, even if only in a few small localised areas. Thirdly, it will be extremely interesting to compare results with the BNP – if the BDP manages to get even one or two more votes than the BNP, then the writing will be on the wall, as the saying has it. Fourthly, it is not unlikely that the Mainstream Parties – and especially the Tories – will be trashed in this election; their national press image right now is in a state of collapse, a process greatly aided by the ultra-fatuous on-the-record remarks of Iain “Angel of Death” Duncan Smith and David “Being Disabled or Out of Work is a Crime” Cameron. (Not to mention George “Let’s Rob the Poor to Pay the Rich even More” Osborne.) Probably the big fly in the ointment at these local elections is UKIP. The only real question would seem to be, who will attract the votes haemorrhaged by the Tories and Limp Dems?
Ian Duncan-Smith is so far out of his depth it is unreal. What remotely competent PM would put that pathetic moron in charge of such a sensitive government department like the DWP? The truth is Mrs Thatcher wouldn’t have done so nor would John Major or any other Tory PM. Cameron is an utter coward to have failed to sack him by now. I believe the reason he hasn’t is because IDS was one of the backbench Tory ‘bastards’ that caused hell for John Major when Mr Major was pushing through the Maastrict Treaty in the early 1990’s. If David Cameron sacked him, IDS would undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble on the Tory backbenches.
Idiotic remarks you can expect from that imbecile Iain Duncan-Smith but it is frankly disturbing to have them come from this country’s supposed Chancellor of the Exchequer. How George Gideon Osbourne can possibly link the vile murders of Phillpot to many others living on benefits is beyond my comprehension and frankly it is vile and disgusting of him to do so. Is it any wonder our shattered economy is barely showing any signs of live with that cretin at the helm of it?
NW Leicestershire is set for real battle with UKIP standing in every seat and the BNP in none. The commies have their day of action planned so steer clear of Coalville if you don’t like the sight of blood.
Thats incredible – NW Leics was a stronghold of the BNP where it regularly won seats or got good seconds.
The BNP is now beyond the point of no return and this has quite a lot to do with Griffin’s inept leadership. If he had run the party in a more democratic way, the party may have attracted more members and thus had a few people it could have chosen to replace him with. He said himself that he could only bring the party to a certain level which he did in 2009 and would be unable to enable it to rise to the next one.
Yes, NW Leics was a party stronghold. It is very sad to see the BNP’s demise, especially when you consider that the party used to hand-out thrashings to UKIP on a regular basis in these kind of areas. Now, people are turning to UKIP but UKIP only really differs from the Lib/Lab/CON party on the question of EU membership and their economic policies are lunatic economic globalism in a nutshell. The BDP MUST attack UKIP for their crazy economic stance as this is UKIP’s most glaring fault.
I was astonished, then highly amused, by an article currently on the BNP website titled: “Winning Hearts And Minds; What Have We Got To Do To Win?” We should give them a sensible answer.
ALL TOGETHER NOW…………………….
Peter, you forget that Griffin and Jefferson have yet to play their ace” ALFRED “
Reply to Graham:
Yes, you are right, I clean forgot about “Alfred”. The official BNP description runs thus: “…The online system, named “Alfred,” will allow users to create canvassing sheets, enter canvassing returns, “slice and dice” information and provide a host of cross-correlated data to assist the party’s election machine…”
I wish them well with this new technological approach. However, to me it seems very much like putting a new speaking-tube in the Titanic when the real problem is the Captain who persistently steers the vessel into a succession of iceburgs. And, if I may be forgiven for being perhaps too blunt, this whole “Alfred” episode reminds me very much of the final days in the Berlin Bunker and the innovative moving of flags on a map which represented forces no longer existing. Or am I out of order suggesting this comparison?
Best of luck to our brave candidates.
What are the account details for setting up regular donations to support the party? Is the limit still £250/yr (£20.83/month) before the donor’s name and address have to be declared to the Electoral Commission? The new tax year is a good time to start setting up standing orders.
As other people have already stated it would be a mistake to try to “ape” the BNP by trying to field as many candidates as possible – particularly so as this election will really expose not only the weakness of that party in breadth but also in depth. I feel sure that it is about to poll some of the worse results ever “achieved” by a British nationalist party ever – particularly if the Gooshayes result is anything to go by (their website has still declined to publish the actual result – other than to say that “Labour lost it”!
The BDP on the other hand is not hamstrung by historical precedent, that is the need to meet expectations of credibility by fielding large numbers of candidates, indeed, as others have already suggested, it does not even have to participate in the election at all. I think fielding a handful of candidates is a wise move as it will give an idea as to the publics’ perception of the new party whilst not wasting valuable resources on campaigning in what is likely to be a bad election for nationalism.
What website is Nick Lowles of Hate Not Hope reading when he says the Brit Dems website has not been updated since February?
He must have had half of what Matthew Collins has been drinking.
Zionist Nick Lowles isn’t the sharpest tool in the drawer if you follow me drift.
A great strategy to test the water,good luck to these gentlemen.
Well done to the above candidates for standing in the forthcoming county council elections. It is a good start and and opportunity to ‘test the water’. For the same reason, I think it might be worth having a crack at the South Shields parliamentary by-election. Yes, I know UKIP will be the ones getting all the publicity and every candidate bar Labour – who are bound to win- will likely get electorally trounced. However, that is likely to be the case all the way to the next General Election which is two years away. The whole point of a political party is to fight elections. A poor vote will be fairly excused by the factor of it being a first time outing for a new party, but there has always got to be a ‘first time’, so better sooner rather than later. Of course there is also the benefit of the postage being paid for for the election leaflets and that is worth a lot of money. I think it is worth giving it serious consideration.
I’ve just read on another forum that the BNP has less than 100 candidates standing despite twisting arms and doing every trick in the book to get mugs to stand. Someone also said that the BNP had nearly 600 candidates the last time the county elections were contested in 2009.
Even though I live in a Tory stronghold in the South East near to London, I had a BNP candidate to vote for in my county division last time. This time I don’t. I was also able to vote for the ED’s. This time, I have a ‘choice’ of Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, Green and Tory tribute ‘party’ UKIP.
I would like to wish our candidates the very best of luck in the forthcoming elections. However, I am not sure about this strategy of testing the electoral water. If we were to stand many more candidates at least we would begin to be recognised as a viable political party by the electorate. If the idea is to see how well the new party will do, this will not give us any clue as to how well or badly we could possibly do in future. The fact is that the BDP is relatively unknown and will probably be seen as little more than a peculiarity in our first outing. I believe we need to publicise ourselves as widely as possible before we go to the polls. People need to know what we stand for, and most of the electorate won’t look at this website to find that out. The BNP were beginning to pick up quite a lot of votes during local elections, and those who once voted for them will now only have the choice of voting for that “establishment safety net” UKIP in most County Council elections now that the BNP is incapable of standing enough candidates. The bottom line is that whatever happens we have no alternative but to try our best to stand candidates and get elected wherever possible in future. The more candidates we can stand the better our chances of getting some success.