And here we find also out how the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party polled...
Posted on 05/08/2015 3:19:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SUPPORT for the far-right British National Party collapsed yesterday after its eight candidates picked up fewer than 2,000 votes.
The BNP’s dismal showing – its worst performance in more than decade – saw the party receive support from just 1,667 voters, down from 563,743 in 2010.
The party polled lower than the Monster Raving Loony Party and the little-known Cannabis Is Better Than Alcohol party.
It meant the party lost it’s £500 deposit in every seat it was contesting, with the BNP’s vote share plummeting by 99.7 per cent.
Former leader Nick Griffin, the face of the nationalist party for many years, was expelled from the party last October for allegedly “trying to cause disunity” in a bid to destabilise the organisation.
This evening, the party tweeted that its activists “would never give up”.
BNP expel Nick Griffin for trying to 'destabilise' the party
It added: “Our people need us, and although perhaps not quite ready, they will realise this soon enough.”
However, speaking to Express.co.uk, the head of the party’s London operation claimed the BNP might never again field candidates in a general election.
Stephen Squires, a BNP spokesman, railed against a “scandalous” first-past-the-post voting system he claimed “doesn’t offer smaller parties good value for money”.
Mr Squires said his party was a million pounds in debt after fighting an election campaign in 2010 that yielded no results.
“We will be fighting in council, local and european elections instead,” he added.
It's different over here. Those guys usually win.
Probably due to UKIP offering a sane nationalist alternative: while most of UKIP’s vote (interestingly larger than the SNP’s vote, but only winning one constituency) doubtless came from the Tories and Labour (their protectionist stance vis-a-vis British jobs in the matter of immigration doubtless drew some Labour supporters), I have a feeling pretty much everyone who might ever have voted BNP as a protest vote went UKIP instead, leaving only the very small hard-cord BNP types.
Wrong. The Conservative Tories did extremely well. They took votes away from all the others...except the Scottish Nationalists who took votes away from Labour but not the Tories. No overlap between the Scot true loonies and the Tories.
Best case scenario was a right coalition and the UKIP would have got the chance at bargaining for a token reduction in immigration and frivolous racial lawsuits.
They weren’t going to get a complete cut that they wanted.
The Swedish third party offered the coalition they were in a 50% cut in immigration when they wanted a 90% cut in immigration. Then the Boehner-Swedes and Pelosi-Swedes teamed up to pass an 8 year budget to keep screw over the third party.
I don’t think a BNP to Tory switch is credible — even in the Tory sweep and winning only a single seat, UKIP took third place in total votes cast — and I think if polls confirm my analysis it will be a shame because it will make it easier for the main parties to portray UKIP in an unfavorable light, but I still suspect that’s what happened to the BNP vote.
We need a sober sane UKIP type party in this country.
A Drudge headline: “THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL BRITAIN...”
How about rebirth of conservative Britian?
I agree with your analysis.
And here we find also out how the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party polled...
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