BNP leadership election
As mentioned earlier in this blog the BNP are about to have an election for the leadership at the end of the month. Members have been provided with a link to 800 word statements by both candidates. The link has not been provided to the general public so I will not provide the link and I will not provide the full statements here. I will however show extracts of the statements.
Nick Griffin
While I welcome the opportunity this election gives to obtain a mandate to continue to steer the BNP on its current uniquely successful course, I believe his ‘challenge’ is not only a grubby affair involving lies and baseless smears but would, if successful, plunge our party back into the political Stone Age; it is not a serious proposal for a different way to run a successful party, but the last gasp effort of the pre-1999 ‘old guard’ to drag us back to their extremist past, bungling amateurism and guaranteed failure.
Mr. Jackson’s statement while seeking nominations was that I am “unacceptable to the National Front” and to other tiny extreme groups, and hence a block to ‘nationalist unity’. Well, I am very happy to be ‘unacceptable’ to anti-social extremists – are they the kind of people with whom you wish to be associated, let alone ‘united’?
Mr. Jackson wants to return to the old policy of compulsory repatriation. I am sure this would be political suicide - utterly ‘unsaleable’ to the vast majority of British voters. It would put our members at even greater risk of persecution as ‘racists’. It would strip us of all legal protection under Human Rights laws.
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson, is Chairman of the ‘Reform Group’ and is challenging for leadership of the British National Party. The ‘Reform Group’ came into being because many members, particularly established members, believed the Party was being run in an erratic way and some member were not renewing as a result. As a talking point, I believe, the current leader has, and the founder leader had, enormous talent in some directions but it seems none in others. This has meant the Party has not been developed in a balanced manner.
In particular, the Chairman authorises the spending of Party money. He also appoints the Treasurer and Auditor. This is I believe is quite contrary to established, prudent, practice. Further it should be noted that Nick Griffin was once declared bankrupt, though now discharged, no prudent organisation would allow someone with his history to be responsible for Party funds.
I believe that the Party Constitution should be changed to one that is a recognisable as normal for a corporate body under English law.
The new Constitution will provide for a compulsory Annual General Meeting at which all paid up members are entitled to attend, propose resolutions and vote.
The Party must adopt a set of basic principles, for example the declaration that***:
1. Our homeland is the
2. We are an independent nation. We must leave the EU.
3. We want to live and be ruled by our traditional laws and customs.
I will be voting Nick Griffin.
3 comments:
Mr Griffin claims that he wishes to secure a meaningful mandate from his members, a vote of confidence in his handling of party finances, and a clear repudiation of what he regards as "pre-1999 extremism" - though before 1999 he was himself one of the more extreme individuals in the movement.
Why then has he chosen to set an absurdly short timescale for the campaign, thus guaranteeing that many party members (during this holiday period) will be unaware of the issues and even unaware of the election until it is all over?
None of the members will be unaware. All members have received their bulletin in the post rather than email this month and everyone gets a 200 word statement and the link to the 800 word statement.
I agree though, it is a short timescale. I would have given until 1 month after the party conference where they could debate the issues.
Any member can stand for leadership every year if they so wish, Jackson could of been out on the campaign trail all year, yet I for one have never heard of him.
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